At The Doll's Hospital

       In a short time Mrs. Brave began to feel better, and, by the time the ambulance returned, was able to stir about.

       "Let us have a look at this broken leg," said Doctor Quickenquack, examining Mr. Brave. "Ahem! I think, Miss Bossem, after all, we would better use

FIRST-AID TREATMENT FOR BROKEN LEG: 
Place pillows under the leg to make it more comfortable, but do not move the patient before the doctor comes, unless absolutely necessary. If necessary to move, place a board or an umbrella, one on each side of the leg, and tie in place, (or tie both legs together if it seems advisable) using bands of muslin, handkerchiefs, or triangular bandages. 

His mother was sitting next to the bed.

       "After we have Mr. Brave in the hospital, we'll put that leg in the right kind of splints and bandages," remarked the doctor, as he and the driver and orderly placed him on the stretcher. " You'll be running a race like a boy in a few weeks," he continued encouragingly as he seated himself beside the patient in the ambulance, and the nurse helped Mrs. Brave to a place.

       ''Like a tortoise, I'm thinking," said Mr. Brave, trying to joke above the pain, for oh, how his broken leg did ache.

       Clang! clang! clang clang! sounded the ambulance gong, and in less than a few minutes they were at the Dolls' Hospital.

       The next morning little Ibee came into his father's room, where his mother was sitting beside the bed with her scalded arm nicely dressed and bandaged.

       "I'm going to be a doctor," he announced proudly, after bidding his parents good-morning. " This is a dandy place! There aren't any private rooms for Soami or me, so we're each in a ward, and there's a fellow in the mon's ward all done up in bandages. I just wish you could see him! I got Doctor Quickenquack to tell me what kinds they all were and I can't remember all of them, but I know he said something about triangular and spiral and figure-of-eight bandages. My, that fellow looks fine! He has a broken arm and a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder and a fractured jaw, and his bandages are swell! He did the whole thing by sliding off his barn roof last Sunday when he was putting shingles on it. He says it's a judgment whatever that is."

       "Well, for pity's sake," exclaimed his mother, "Ibee, how you talk! Do take a breath!"

       "Hello, everybody!" said little Soami, running in. "How's father? Shesa's fine, Miss Helpem told me. No bones broken except one finger. Shesa's asleep now, and her finger's bandaged beautifully!"

       "Father's just about as well as can be expected, dear," answered their father. "And very thankful none of us are hurt worse."

       "I don't know," said Ibee, shaking his head. "Even though my arm aches so, I'd have liked to have had something worth while; for instance, a compound fracture of the thigh. Father's was only a simple fracture. In a compound fracture the broken bone often comes through the skin, I heard the head nurse say to one of the assistants."

       "Well, sir," said his father, "if you had this, you'd find it was enough!"

       "Why, what's the matter with the boy? Is he crazy?" exclaimed his mother. "As though we hadn't all had trouble enough!"

       "I don't think he's crazy," said Soami. "There's a girl in our ward who has a broken nose, and it looks too interesting for anything to see the nurse dress it! I want to be a nurse when I grow up ! Just think how many people one can help! Why, if it hadn't been for the nurses, perhaps we might nearly all be dead!"

      "Indeed we might," agreed their mother. "I don't know whether you'll be a doctor, Ibee, or whether Soami will be a nurse, but I do know that I'm going to ask Miss Bossem if a class cannot be formed in our neighborhood in which we can all learn how to render first-aid to the injured."

      "Good for you, Mother," said Shesa, coming in at that moment, and kissing her father. "I've just been talking with Miss Helpem, and she has explained how to join the Preparedness Movement, so that if we should have war right in our own land, or serious accidents, we could help care for the wounded or injured."

"Read it out loud!"

       "That brings my dear Ima to mind. Oh, I do hope we'll get a letter today," said her mother.

       "Here's a postcard just received for Master Ibee Brave, "said a nurse, coming along with the mail.

       "From Ima!" said Ibee. "It's from New York, looking at the postmark.

       "Read it out loud!" cried his mother. "Let us all hear how the dear boy is."

Ibee read:

Dear Folks:
New York never looked better to us than as we left for the front but who wouldn't be brave for the sake of the red, white and blue? Will write mother a long letter as soon as time permits.
As ever, Ima Brave.

       "Now, isn't that brave?" exclaimed his mother. "He's as brave as Teddy Roosevelt!"

       "It's wonderful to belong to such a brave family," said Miss Helpem, who came in just then to renew the dressing on Mr. Brave's head.

Introduction: Chapters: 1, 2, 3, At The Doll's Hospital,  5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19