“Don’t think so. It has done him good. Tamed him a bit.”
“But you don’t want the man to be lame?”
“Never said I did, dear boy. But what should you do?”
“Call in the doctor.”
“But if there were no doctor?”
“Apply bandages and lotion at once.”
“Humph! Suppose a chap had a leg taken off by a twelve-pound shot and there was no doctor, what should you do then?”
“Apply a tourniquet well on the femoral artery, and do what I could to check the bleeding.”
“Humph! Suppose a fellow had a bullet through him anywhere?”
“Plug and bandage the wound.”