Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-14
A Victim OF the T0ethache.

2 T HAD the toothache yesterday. That
Internal little hollow tooth of mine held
bushel of ache. It ached clean down 70
the toe Of my boot; it was regular 0 K
ache too! My face swelled so much that
my most familiar creditor didn't know
me. You wouldn't have wanted very
much of my jaw. Every time the tooth
thumped, it lifted me clear off the chair.
l really thought / should go crazy-you
probably think my fare wouldn't have
cost me much--I begged for revolver to
end my momentous moments.
remembered of quart bottle of
strychnine in the house. [ got it and
drank it all; didn't even take the cork
QUIT sucked it inland prepared to die.
But suddenly discovered the label Old
Rye" on it, The label played the mis-.
chief with my intentions. If it hadn't
been for that label l. 5aa aaf'af tIod~no a4'
l laid down on the floor, rolled over and
Immediately got up. a good many people
who are depending on nle-eor various
sums--hearing of my danger--or their
danger-came in to tell me, what they
didn't know was good for the toothache,
but begged me to do something, as they
were sure | was not prepared to go yet
The ladies sympathized with me. One
said she had NOT had the toothache for
many years; but she hadn't tooth in her
head. One old maid declared she had it
in her two front teeth very badly only the
day before; but know, privately, that
all her teeth are false, All the while my
tooth, with the spirit of q hundred aches,
was beating time to the music of Fishers
HOrnpipe. | snatched the tongs and ran
up stairs and worked for fifteen minutes
to pull the internal tooth, but 1t wouldn't
bulge an inch. 7i 2''a1tasqse7 r.. v
had notion to go to the dentist, but
then got afraid that ne might pull it. It
means business to 20 there Butt started
three or four times, hoping it would stop
aching before I got to our gate which it
didn't. Finally, crammed my hat over
my eyes, took my face in both hands, and
started. ~
was crazier than I ever was in nv
life, and that is saying good deal 7 met
o fellow owed, and paid him five dollars
Il was so out of my head.
neared the dentists door.
nerved myself up-so did the tooth
and then, with a heroism worthy of bet
ter cause-went past, and round home
again. I thought of the river; then
thought of that young lady who had mis-.
taken me for single man, and then went
back TO the dentists room. ~
Shut my eyes and went in.
I asked him what he'd give me to let
him pull the tooth. He said laughing gas.
| told him it was no laughing matter, and
I didn't want any of his gas He told me
to sit down and enjoy myself, and he'd
pull it anyhow. I begged him to pull
easy on it; he got his forceps on
it, then / asked him what he'd
take to let me off without pulling the
tooth. He told me to hold on. I held on
his arm. A second and thought my
head had been bombshell, and had bust.
ed. I asked the dentist if my backbone
had come up with it, and felt of my face
to see if it was all there.
But the tooth was well out.
1t was the first time in his life he had
ever made the mistake of pulling the right
tooth the first trial. Yes, there. on the
table lay my little tooth-still aching
away 1t was true to its instincts. When
the dentist asked me for his pay, I told
him to charge it. was sure had got in
my right mind again.
My face has gone down again, but fat
ter myself I have still enough left to do
business on