"Going to heal up your leg, old chap, in a brace of shakes. Splendid invention for putting a new skin on your leg. Sha'n't hurt you a bit. Don't squeal. I'm just going to snip off a tiny bit or two from your arm, and transplant 'em on to your leg." And having cheered up the patient with a stiff glass of grog which the nurse had at command, the vigorous young dresser took off a dozen or more pieces of skin the size of a threepenny-piece, from the arms, and scattered them in likely places on the badly healing burn.

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