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Show finger. The pain became worse, ami his hand swelled so alarmingly that he had to go to a '-hospital. An operation op-eration was performed, and a rille bullet an inch and a quarter long and a quarter of an inch in diameter diam-eter was extracted. It had been lodged nil these 14 years in the hand, beneath the bone, nntil the sudden wrench had loosened it from its position. Carrisd Souvenir of Somme Fourteen Years The true stories of strange war wounds are legion, but one of the most curious concerns a Kin tore man, John Garden, who is employed as u gardener in Inverurie, Scotland. Mr. Garden served in France with the Fourth Gordons, and was wounded by shrapnel during the battle of the Somme on August IS, 1010, near Guillemont. Quite recently, in the course of his work. Mr. Garden had occasion to make a heavy lift and felt a severe pain in the back of his hand beneath the bone of the middle |