Although Clara was only eleven years old when this happened, she would not let any one but herself nurse David. For two years she took care of him.
“You will get sick yourself,” her mother told her, but Clara said that she could not leave her brother.
“I would rather nurse sick people than play,” she said.
It was because of her tender care that David got well.
“Clara is a born nurse,” he would say. “She knows just the right things to do.”
III. Clara Grows Up
Clara Barton
You would think that when she grew up, Clara would have studied to be a trained nurse, wouldn’t you?