what made the little dog whimper ? Lesson Florence nightingale
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As many of our readers know, Florence Nightingale, the heroine of the Crimea, spent her earlier years at Lea Hurst, a picturesquely situated mansion hard by the upland village of Holloway, which lies between Cromford and Crich. Though old-looking the house belongs to the present century but (as has been written of it) it is almost as classic as the birthplace of Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon. Florence Nightingale was born at Florence, but removed with her parents to their lovely Derbyshire residence when still a child, and did not leave it again till she decided to devote her life to the sick and suffering. Here is a story of her girlhood which will not be out of place in this column. Some boys had thrown stones at a valuable sheep-dog belonging to an old Scotch shepherd, and broken its leg, and it was decided that it would be a mercy to kill the poor animal, when Florence Nightingale came upon the scene. The little girl went fearlessly up to where he lay saying in a soft caressing tome, “Poor Cap! Poor Cap!” It was enough, he looked up with his speaking brown eyes, now bloodshot and full of pain, into her face, and did not resent it when, kneeling down beside him she stroked with her little ungloved hand the large intelligent head. To the vicar he was rather less amenable, but a dint of coaxing, at last allowed him to touch and