Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-04-15
Mississippi Plan Of ? plling Teeth


| ByA LOUISIANA SWAMP DOCTOR.
| | had just finished the last vol
ume Of Wistar's A atomy, well
nigh coming to a period myself with
Weariness at the same t lime, and with
feet well braced up on the, man
tel=piece, was lazily surveying the
closed volume which lay on my
Flap, when hurried ste p in the front
gallery aroused me from the reyery
into which | was fast s. hiking.
| Turning my head as the office
| door opened, my eyes fell on the we'll
fdeVeloped proportions Of a huge
1atboatsrnan who entered the room
W Wearing a couhtenance, the impress
Esion of which would seem to indicate
that he had just gobe into the vine
gar manufacture with . fine promise
Of success.
/ DO you pull teeth, young one?
said he to me.
! Yes, and noses too replied I, fin
Igering my slender moustache, highly
ihdignantat the juvenile appellation,
Ia nd bristling up by the side Of the
huge ,KentucAian, till I looked as
large as a thumb-lancet by the side
k f an amputating knife.
You needn't get riled, young
doc, I meant no insult, sarten, for my
teeth are TOO sore to low your boots
To jar them as | swallowed you down.
] want a tooth pulled, can you man
age the job? Ouch! criminy, but it
/ Hurts'
yes, sir, I can pull your; tooth.
! Is it an incia or, or a dens sapientie?
1ne of the decidua, OF a permanent
grinder?'.
It's a sizer, l reckon. It's the
largest tooth in my jaw, anyhow,
) you can see for YOURSELF aud the
Aentucklan opening the lower hail OF
, His face, disclosed a set of teeth that
, dearly showed that his half of the
alligator lay above.
"A molar requires extraction said
], as be laid his finger on the aching
: fang.
/ A nolar! well, I'll be Gust but
, you doctors haye queer names for
things!.. l reckon the next time I
want a money-puss molear will be
extracted too; ouch! What do you
) ak for pulling teeth, doc? l want to
git rid of the pesky thing
a dollar, sir, said !, pulling out
the case of instruments and placing a
chair for him.
"a dollar! dollar hill! do you think
the Yazoo Pass is full Of kegs of
speshy? I'd see you mashed under
i, a hogshead of pork fore I'd give you
ia dollar to pull the thingi;' and pick
ing up his hat, which he had dashed
on the floor on his first entrance, off
he started.
Seeing some fun in store, [ winked
at the rest of the students, whom the
lloudness of our conversation had
called from the other rooms of the
capacious Office, and requested the
subject to return.
i Its no use, stranger; I'd squirm
all day fast fore ia give you dol
lar to pull every tooth in nay head,
said he.
! well, Mister, times are hard, and
I'm pull your tooth for half D dollar
said /, determined, if necessary, to
give him pay before I would lose the
pulling Of his tooth.
you'll have to come down notch
lower, doc. I wants to interduce
IKaintuck fashions on the Southern
isle; and up thar, you can geta tooth
pulled and the agur 'scribed for, fur
laIquarter.'
/ well, but recollect, it's harder to
pull teeth here than it is in Ken
lucky
| Don't care cuss; dimes plcntyer.
III don't want to be. stingy, though,
! doc, and I'll tell you what I'll do.
l feels sorter bad from eatin' a mud
cat yesterday. I'll gin you quar-
ter to pull my tooth, if you'll throw
in dose Of castor ile.'
its bargain, saidI. I couldn't
possibly afford to do it. so low if II
didn't manufacture my own oil, and
pull teeth on the mississippi patent
PLAN without the least pain
|, We'll, I'se struck a breeze of luck,
sure, to get it sstracted without hurt
in, for | 'spected it would make all
things pop, by hoecake. And all I