The old fellow sat in a splint-bottomed chair of extra size and with arms.

Then, looking up and down the cudgel, he said, "Now, I have in my hand but a splint of wooda barley straw, as it wereyet I trow it will have to serve me, so here goeth."

Why, sir, the horse that I do mean Hath a leg both straight and clean, That hath nor spaven, splint, nor flaw, But is the best that ever ye saw; A pretty rising kneeO knee!

The bones of the lower limbs may be thus arranged: Thigh: Femur, or thigh bone, Lower Leg: Patella, or knee cap, Tibia, or shin bone, Fibula, or splint bone, Foot: 7 Tarsal or ankle bones, 5 Metatarsal or instep bones, 14 Phalanges, or toes bones, making 30 bones in all.

If the accident happens in the woods, the limb should be bound with handkerchiefs, suspenders, or strips of clothing, to a piece of board, pasteboard, or bark, padded with moss or grass, which will do well enough for a temporary splint.

162.Showing how an Umbrella may be used as a Temporary Splint in Fracture of the Leg.] Never move the injured person until the limb is made safe from further injuries by putting on temporary splints.

[Illustration: Fig. 163.Showing how a Pillow may be used as a Temporary Splint in Fracture of the Leg.]

Mother was in the bed-room; so, while I called her, Miss Perrit set down in the splint rockin'-chair that creaked awfully, and went to rockin' back and forth, and sighin', till mother come in.

The doc 'ud put a cast-iron splint on it, and order me into a hospital.

But look, my dear sir, he has a defect here, and in his near foreleg I observe something which looks very much like a splint!

Yes, upon my credit, he has a splint, or something which will end in one!

"You don't think it necessary to put the arm in a splint, or to fasten weights to it, or to amputate the first joint of the thumb?" "I am sorry to say that is all I know how to do for you, Miss Vernor.

"Look here, get a good stout splint of wood on either side, and lash all fast with waxed thread...." "I'll lash you with waxed thread," said Eleseus.

Old Dinah saw, going down the path, a tall, brown girl, in a homespun frock, swinging a slat-bonnet in one hand and a splint basket in the other.

On the morning of the eventful day, uncle Needham, assisted by John, harnessed the mule to the two-wheeled cart, on which a couple of splint-bottomed chairs were fastened to accommodate Dinah and Cicely.

And when a white man strayed from his regiment and falls wounded it rather affects him to have a Negro, shot himself a couple of times, take his carbine and make a splint of it to keep a torn limb together for the white soldier, and then, after lifting him to one side, pick up the wounded man's rifle and go back to the fight with as much vigor as ever.

"His leg is broken!" He made a splint for the dog, and with Lida helping, they put him to bed in a clothes-basket in my up-stairs kitchen.

He hobbled around on his three legs, with the splint beating a sort of tattoo on the floor, but he stayed back in the kitchen with me, or in the yard.

Leslie had hanging upon her finger, also, the finest and whitest and most graceful of all possible little splint baskets, only just big enough to carry a bit of such work as was in it now,a strip of sheer, delicate grass-linen, which needle and thread, with her deft guidance, were turning into a cobweb border, by a weaving of lace-lines, strong, yet light, where the woof of the original material had been drawn out.

This it joins an inch or more above the bottom of the splint bone.

That money, which by means of the substituted card I took from Gourlay, sticks like a bone-splint in the red throat of my penitence.

She was in the old splint rocking-chair with the high back.

R103240, 20Oct52, Edith Splint (NK) CAHILL, JAMES CHRISTOPHER New York civil practice.

There were men with fans and alpaca coats curled up in splint chairs in the verandah of the one hotelamong them an ex-President of the United States.

There was a moment's pause as he searched his pockets for a match, a silence in which he listened as he searched, and suddenly as he was about to strike the sulphur tipped splint there came to his ears a sound that held him chained to the spot.