Then put the knot on that place and tie the handkerchief around the limb.

You can stop a vein in the same way and more easily, but if it's a vein you must tie the handkerchief so that the cut place will be between it and the heart.

You see the blood comes from the heart in the arteries, and goes back towards the heart in the veins, and so to stop an artery you tie inside, and to stop a vein outside of the cut place." I think it altogether probable that Master Sam would have gone into quite a lecture on anatomy and minor surgery, if little Judie had not waked up just then complaining of hunger.

What he told the boys, however, is well worth remembering.

He took little Judie on his lap and sent the two boys out to find a field of potatoes or corn.