William Beaumont      Frontier doctor

Excerpt from "William Beaumont   Frontier Doctor":

Arms flailing, his trapper's blouse spattered with blood, he shouted, "There's been an accident—out back. I need help."

The first men to reach the crumpled voyageur
quickly knelt and patted out the still-smoldering clothing. Someone pressed a kerchief to the flowing chest wound; others gently lifted and carried the tall limp body to a cot in the post's back room.

"I don't know how it happened!"

The hunter, overwhelmed at the horror of what he'd done, leaned against the rough wall. "We were after a couple of ducks for dinner," he said. "Some- how my fowling piece misfired. Alex took the full charge." He turned his head away from the still figure, whose dark skin had gone ashen.

"One of the lads is running up the hill for the fort
doctor," someone said.
 

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