PAINFUL BUT LAUGHABLE.
In 4 Notes of an Army Surgeon ’ may be found the following : 4 1 remember, one day, in making my hospital rounds, a patient just arrived presented an amputated forearm, and doing so could scarcely restrain a loud laugh; the smile was constantly on his face. 4 What is the matter ? This does not strike me as a subiect of laughter.’ 4 It is not, doctor, but excuse me, 1 lost my arm in so funny a way that I still laugh when I look at it. Our first sergeant wanted shaving, and got me to attend to it, as I am corporal. We went together in front of his tent ; I had lathered him, took him by the nose, and was just about to apply the razor, when a cannon-ball came, and that was the last I saw of his head and my arm. Excuse me, doctor, for laughing so, but I never saw such a thing before.’ This occurred during the seige of Fort Erie.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 174, 2 December 1892, Page 6
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