A TRIBUT TO THE DOCTORS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 157, 2 June 1900, Page 3

A TRIBUT TO THE DOCTORS.

Pool 1 Bunlino, o\mvoi'Hd and wo r»i down, u&od 10 como to lib of an yvennig ;ujil sit v/ith hu, hctid in his ha'i.ls lot a -srliiJo, tec. kreel nhnost to tc'k. A, I dty he was at woilr, honso to hou.be, ho .pit d to hospital, never letting a patient see tiio dtu'k ,-icle of anything, holding up to birj c'nfc/ magiiilicsnily, thouga physically iin ( ii fui ifc. If the iij, ! iring side oi die British irmy had luv^o moil in La;l\iamitli the medical ])iof^ssion tad heroes.. .HornaLu'ook, t'te youth Aus .i\ih.<n, had done his b«jst — dona it, too, thoroughly, and with too little LOgavd for his own tioubl^s. Ti^e nag'.oc^-d wound in tho udo g-we him tioible, end ]mA, v~: ho had paa?ed th.it d.L.igur s^iVly, a sunstroke laid him low r,£..un, ai.d Ln j. timo ho \\\\-, d^hnoao. Is v,ms BuiHcienc. snroly, but not tho fail niGAbnie, lot no soonei h<\\\ he biu-vivod thw tha 1 an attack of enteric laid him low a»,un. I went to see him m tho ho-wit.il, %\heie Buntine, whose rocovd in foNti* cases was unoquilied, had mi do i-bim as comfortable aa the cvercrov.dnig 'would pomiifc. The square, determined face, wh'ch iv this case was so true a a index oi chavacceL', was sadly shrunken, bat his eye was bright, his pluck mi-ihakeu, aud vith asiimleho said: '' llcuYy up that reiici' — j'm waiting for a big bottle of ehd'tipagud." t\s tho sick weie taken oas oi: to\vu to Tutombi a gL*ear.?r nniuboi ot tho convalescent* eropt back again, t^iad to oscapo from that haven of ret age, and tjiekn -ss, and de.it bt. Poor iellowa, they added bitle to the gaiety of the gamsou. Most of thorn were jubt in ing skeletons, with a sa/low, unhealthy, parch-nieat-hke akin stretcbod over them, and choir semi-vicani c!o f kd3 hanging in limp folds or flappin * in the wind. T>lost oi the conv.ilosc-'nts are in the convent or the private but vacant dwellings on the northern ridge, where, if fully exposed to shell, they have ot least fresh air.