this moment a score of young women, all natives of
the town and members of the League, undergoing instruction from our
lecturer. After the course there will be an examination; and then, with
the lecturer's help--and the advice, if I might suggest it, of Lady
Williams, who can tell him if the candidate's family be respectable and
deserving--we can surely select a young person to do us credit."

Sir Felix took his departure in the cheerfullest temper, and I record
his suggestion as one eminently worthy of his head and his heart,
although subsequent events have, alas! brought it to nought. I doubt if
we shall send up a nurse from Troy; indeed, I doubt if there will even
be an examination.

Last evening the Young Women's Christian Association attended its sixth
Ambulance lecture. The subject--roller bandaging--being a practical
one, a small boy was had in, set on the platform, and bandaged in sight
of the audience--plain bandaged, reverse bandaged, figure-of-eight
bandaged, bandaged on forefinger, thumb, hand, wrist and forearm, elbow,
shoulder, knee, ankle, foot. He declares that he enjoyed himself
thoroughly. After each demonstration the young women took a turn and
practised with such assiduity that an hour slipped pleasantly away.
The bandages were applied, the spirals neatly stitched, and the stitches
promptly snipped for the next pupil to begin. An occasional prick with
the needle evoked no more than a playful remonstrance from the boy and a
ripple of laughter from the fair executants. At length, alas! Miss
Sophy Rabling, in snipping her bandage from the boy's foot, fumbled and
drove a point of the scissors sharply into his toe.

With a howl he caught at his foot, from which one or two drops of blood
were trickling. And the sight of it so affected Miss Sophy that she
dropped upon the platform in a swoon. A class-mate in the body of the
hall almost instantly followed her example.

The lecturer, I am bound to say, behaved admirably. So far was he from
losing his head, that he instantly seized on the accident to turn it to
account.

"First aid!" he cried. "Subject: Fainting. Patient No. 1, head to be
pressed down below her knees and kept there for a few minutes.
Patient No. 2, to be extended on the floor, care being taken to keep
head and body level. A form being handy, we could, as an alternative,
have hung Patient No. 1 over it, head downwards."

But at this point, unfortunately, the humour of th