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Axed appendage: Subsequent to the corridor is the old-fashioned the place tales abound that within the early 1900s, a boy was flogged for being late after falling from a horse. However that pales into insignificance when in comparison with the ordeal of poor Tom Daniel who by chance chopped off his huge toe with an axe. The Queanbeyan Age of April 18, 1878 splashed the story over its entrance web page with all of the gory element: “…the implement struck an over-hanging department which broke the pressure of the blow meant for a specific limb, and diverted the blade, in order that it fell with full pressure upon the unlucky younger man’s left foot, chopping by the boot and utterly severing the nice toe. He bore the accident with fortitude and, failing to acquire a buggy, rode the entire distance (over 20 miles) into Queanbeyan the identical night, faint with lack of blood and far exhausted. Dr Richardson dressed the wound, and we’re glad to say the younger man is now doing nicely”. A 2015 version of the native e-newsletter, The Hoskinstown Ewes, asserts: “Lately somebody would decide up the toe, put it on ice and run him into emergency in a 4WD. A intelligent surgeon may even reconnect it. They made ’em robust in 1872.” They definitely did.