Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-07-17

and oil of cloves, and any number OF the
standard remedies, but all of no avail.
By this time your nerves are call on
edge" and the slightest unaccustomed
noise Is agony. Bat nobody seems to
think anything about that. The doors
are slammed, it seems to you, as they
we're never slammed before, and the
dust-pan is being continually knocked
down, and the poker Is constantly obey
ing o well-known law of gravitation and
tumbling into the CRATE, and the house
maid rattles the crockery and sings
snatches of melodies in way that makes
you wish you lived in an absolute mon
archy, and that you were the absolute
monarch. so that YOU could order your
chief executioner TO bring you that an
moving females head on pike.
If you venture to suggest to any per
son the propriety of making less noise
about the house, he will laugh at you ana
| advise YOU not to be nervous and nave
the Mysteries over the toothache.
After about weeks intermittent agony
the dreadful truth is forced home to you.
| That tooth must be extracted. There Is
nothing more to be done You feel weak
in the knees and the cold perspiration be-
dews your forehead at the thought.
After fighting numerous conflicts with
yourself you tie your face up in hand
kerchief and start for DIR. Pullhards.
Before you have got halfway there
your tooth ceases to ache, but your tenn
per is up, and you resolve to see 1t out
literally.
DR.. Pullhard is not in, but he will re
turn soon, the attendant informs you
and he shows you into the operating
room to await the doctors coming.
You can amuse yourself by looking al
the marble slabs under the window where
the instruments of the doctors profes
sion are ranged in tidy rows, intersperset
at intervals by upper sets of teeth OF
gold plate, and under sets on vulcanite
and single teeth on pivots, and teetl
drawn. from the jaws of some wrctchet
human victim, which, being "hart
cases." the doctor has thought worthy o
preservation for future reference.
By and by DR.. Pullhard arrives, brisl
and smiling He is very glad to see you
and says it is fine morning, and ask
what he can do for you in very an
mated tone of voice, and he washes hi
hands, and slips into dirty dressing
} gown, and fingers among those derisiv
instruments, and politely invites you t
{ take a seat in a green-cushioned chair @
torture.
t When once he has got you there he let
{ down the back of chair and your hea
e drops back, and he sticks his fingers
;, which taste of scented soap, betwee
9 your lips, and he puts his head so thf
a his breath, strongly favored with cards
l. mon seeds, puffs into your face, and ask
k you if it is a cuspid or molar.
e He goes over your teeth in two mi
# utes. He sticks probe here and ther
to11s Won tbot four Of yOur teeth nee
V filling; two more are on the point of
e ceration, and he says there is dreadt
r accumulation of tartar, and mentions Il
ir fact that Pullhards Pre-eminent Too
n Paste will remove all discolorations al
d parasitical formations in ten days, or Il
d money will be refunded.
is Then he fixes on the tooth-tells you
10 open your mouth wider-seizes your hei
Is under his arm-hourishes his forceps /
le fore your shrinking eyes, and, though "
m struggle and choke, it is in vain.
ne One desperate wrench-the top of 20
k head seems lifting off-a thousand col
re cts dance before your vision-there is
I'd noise in your ears like the thunder OF t
of surf on lee shore, and then the doct
I'd triumphantly holds aloft the bleedi
e, cause of all your agony, and announc
st in the tones of victor the welcol
ne truth:
ne Its out !"
sv And YOU rise from your seat feeli
ut faint at the stomach, and timber in
i'd back, and as if load of hay had be
driven through the enormous cav
which you have always thought was
very delicate and well-formed mout
but your heart is light, and you feel
possible, about ten times happier thar
of bow with his first pair of pantaloons
ry Kate Thorn, in Neao York Weekly