Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1918 — GIVES SKIN TO SAVE SON OF MAN WHO SKINNED HIM. [ARTICLE]

GIVES SKIN TO SAVE SON OF MAN WHO SKINNED HIM.

In an Italian field hospital a story is told of a surgeon who called out to the soldiers: 1 “Boys, is there any one among you willing to give a little of his skin to this wounded man?” “That wounded man,” one of them called out, “is the son of the usurer who has always skinned me; but he has fought well and it is only right that I should give him what little cuticle his father has spared.”