The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-11-13
RAVENNA, THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1856.


creation! let me go.o-o--stop, hold on. .. 20
as the Doctor bored, screwed, and plugged
away at the tooth.
Gall done, sir; let the patient up, Mi
chael," says the Doctor, with a confident
twirl of his perfumed handkerchief. "There,
sir-there was science, art, elegance, and
dispatch! Now, sir, your tooth is safe--your
life is safe--you're sound mani"
"Sound" echoes poor Bill, "sound!
Why, you've broken my jaw into flinders;
you've set all my teeth on edge; and I've
no more feelin--gall darn yel--in my jaws,
than if they were iron steel traps! You've
got the wuth fyour money Out Of my mouth.
and I'm off"
That night was one OF anxiety and misery
to William Whiflstre. The disturbed mo-
lar growled and twitched like mad; and, by
daylight, poor Bill's cheek was swollen up
equal to printers buff. ball, his mouth puck
cred end his right eye half "bunged up"
"Why, William" says Ethan Rakestraw,
as Bill went into the store, "what in grace
als thy face! Thee looks like an owl in
an ivy bush!'
"Been plugged and fled" says Bill look
ing cross as meat aye at his snickering
Orthodox boss.
"Plugged and fined? Thee hain't been
fighting, Willium!''
"Fined! No, ain't been fined or fight.
ing, Mr. Rakestraw. but bet do fight that
feller who gave me the ooth.ache!-O!Ow
moaned poor Bill as he clamped his swol-
len jaw with his hand, and went around wa,
wing his head like plaster Of Paris munda-
rim.
20! thee's been to the dentist, eh! Got
the tooth ache! Go thee to my wife; she'll
cure thee in one minute, William; little
loudanum and cotton will soon ease thy
pain"
Mrs. Rakestraw applied tho laudanum to
Bills molar, but as it didno kind of good,
old grandmother proposed a poultiCe; and
soon poor Bills head and cheek were done
up in mush, while he groaned and grunted
and started for the store, every body gaping
at his swollen countenance as though he
was rare curiosity.
"Halloo, Bill" says old Firelock, the
gunsmith, as Bill was going by his shop;
"got bag in your calabash, or got the tooth
ache!"
Bill looked daggers at old Firelock, and by
q nod intimated the cause of his distress.
go, that ALL Come in; I'll stop it in
minute and half; sit down, I'll fix tive
cured hundreds" says Firelock.
"What are you--O-h-h, dear! what ere
you going to dol" says Bill, eyeing the wire,
and lamp in which Firelock was heating
the wire.
"Durn out the marrow Of the tooth--it
will never trouble you again-l've cured
hundreds that way! Don't be ufeared-you
won't feel it but moment. Sit still, keep
cool!' says Firelock. r
"Coo?"- with hot wire in his tooth! But
Bill, being already intensely crucifcd, and
assured Of Firelock's skill, took his head out
of the mush plaster, opened his jaws, and
Firelock, admonishing him to "keep COOL"
crowded the hot, sizzling wire on to the tin
foil jammcd into the hollow by Wangbang-
er, and gave it twist clear through the mel.
ted tin to the exposed nerve. Bill jumped,
bit off the wire, burnt his tongue, and knock
ed Firelock nearly through the partition Of
his shop; and so frightened Monsieur Sa-
Won, the little barber next door. that he rush
I'd out into the street, crying. ,..,.,
"Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! .Ze zundair strike
my shop!" a. ~ ..., ....'
Bill was stone dead-Firelock crippled.
The, apothecary over the way came in, pick
ed up poor Bill, applied some camphor to
his nose, and brought him back to life, and
the pangs Of tooth ache!
"Kreasote!" says Squills, the 'pothecary.
.'T'll ease your pain, Mr.. Whifletree, in a
second" nd.",..................... ...
Poor Bill gave up-the kreasote added a
fresh invoice to his misery--burnt his al
ready lacerated and roasted tongue-and he
yelled right out. .....l..
"Death and glory! O-h-h h.h, murder!
You've pizened me!' ..... ..,
"Put hot brick to that young mans face"
said stranger; "twill take out the pain
and swelling in three minutes"
Billrevived; he, seemed pleased at the
suggestion; the brick was applied;
but Bill's cheek being now halfraw with the
various messes, it made him yell when the
brick touched him!
He cleared for home, went to bed, and the
excessive pain, finally, with laudanum, kre-
,sote, fire, and hot bricks, put him to sleep.
He awoke at midnight, in frightful state
,fmisery; walked the floor until daylight;
vas tempted two or three times to jump out
he window or crawl up the chimney! -
Until noon the next day he suffered, try,
ng in vain, every ten minutes, some ''known
,ure," oils, acids, steam, poultces, and the
en- thousand applications usually tried to
cure raging tooth.
Desperation made Bill revengeful. He
yota club and went after Dr.. Wangbahger,
Who had set all the viilagein rage of tooth