Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-13


and oil Of cloves, and any number OF the
STANDARD remedies, but all of no ayaill
By this time your nerves are "all on
edge" and the slightest unaccustomcd
noise is agony. But nobody seems to
think anything about that Inc doors
are slammed, it seems to you, rs they
were never slammed before, and the
dust-pan is being continually knocked
down, and the poker Is constantly OBEY,
ing a 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 ana nave
the Mysteries over the toothache.
After about a 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-
Jews your IOTcIcuu ~ tuC tuOuSht.
After fighting numerous conflicts with
yourself you tie your face up in hand
kerchef and start for DR.. 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 at
the marble slabs under the window where
the instruments of the doctors profess
sion are ranged in tidy rows, interspersed
at intervals by upper sets OF teeth on
gold plate, and under seta on vulcanite,
and single teeth on pivots, and teeth
drawn from the jaws of some wretched
human victim, which, being "hard
cases." the doctor has thought worthy OF
preservation for future reference.
BY and by Dr. Pullhard arrives, brisk
and smiling He is very glad to see you,
and says it is fine morning, and asks
what he can do for you in very ami
mated tone Of voice, and he washes his
hands, and slips into a dirty dressing
gown, and fingers among those derisiye
instruments, and politely invites you to
take seat in a aforementioned chair OF
torture.
When once he has got you there he lets
down the back Of a chair and your head
drops back, and he sticks his fingers,
which taste of scented soap, between
your lips, and he puts his head so tn at
his BREATH strongly favored with carda-
mon seeds, pufs into your face, and asks
you if it is cuspid or molar.
He goes over your teeth in two min
utes. He sticks probe here and there,
and tells you that four of your teeth need
filing; two more are on the point OF III
ceration and he says there is a dreadful
accumulation of tartar, and mentions the
fact that Pullhard's Pre-eminent Tooth
Paste will remove all discolorations and
parastical formations in ten days, or the
money will be refunded.
Then he fixes on the tooth-tells you to
open your mouth wider-seizes your head
under his arm-hourshes his forceps be
fore your shrinking eyes, and, though you
struggle and choke, it is in vain.
One desperate wrench-the top of your
head seems lifting OLA thousand COM
cts dance before your vison--there is a
noise in your ears like the thunder of the
surf on a lee shore, and then the doctor
triumphantly holds aloft the bleeding
cause of all your agony, and announces
in the tones of victor the welcome
truth:
Z" It's out ~
And you rise from your seat feeling
faint at the stomach, and timber in the
back, and as if load of hay had been
driven through the enormous cavity
which you have always thought was II
very delicate and wellformed mouth;
but your heart is light, and you feel, if
possible, about ten times happier than a
boy with his first pair of pantaloons-
Kate thorn, IN Nep York. Weekly.
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