The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-03-18
CHINESE TOOTEACHE.

Hap-SWdp, OHlHeSo NdSleIIndA az
No. 81 Michigan avenue, awohe the
other night from his bright dream and
uttered cry which was heard across
the street. He is getting along in age,
and the toothache had come skulking
down upon him in that soft, sly way
peculiar to nothing else. He stuffed the
sheet into his mouth. pried around the
tooth with hair pin, and drew the
clothes over his head and tried to re-
men1ber all the dogs and rats he had
ever eaten, but it was no go. The polar
wave had worked itself under double
tooth, and Hap-S Swap was seen dancing
before the uncurtained windows at mid
night, and doubling himself up in the
shape of O's and SIS and DIS.
For days he roamed up and down,
grooming and signing, and the shirts of
his customers hing against the battered
walls, neglected and forgotten. Such
nights as Hap-Swap put in were enough
to turn his hair gray. He sat by the red
hot stove, got into bed, got out, walked
around, but there was no rest for him.
One morninga grocer advised him to go
to dentists and secure relief, and the
Chinaman put on his hat and followed
a boy to a tooth-puller's. He was
as brave as a lion, and he jumped into
the chair, leaned back his head, and
cried:
fsCome alongee-puu 'em quick!'
~s1-U have that out in York minute, .
replied the dentist, getting his tools to-
gether.
seTlake a stlingl Take sting ~
cried the Chimaman, as he rose up and
caught sight of the tools.
ssWe don't pull teeth with a string il
this country was the reply. "You
lust hold still for moment, and you'll
be all right.
Hap-Swap fell back with a groan
shut his teeth hard, and it took five
minutes of soft talk to make him oper
his jaws. The dentist then inserted 8
lance to cut around the tooth, but al
the first dig his patient slid over
the arm of the chair to the floor, shout
ing:
ssHap-Swap stabbed in the mouth
oohl oosh!"
The dentist explained to him that the
cutting would make the tooth pull
easier, but as he talked soft and beau
4iful smile stole over the Chinaman's
face, and he said:
Tootheache ale gone-alle gone
-away!'
He skipped around the Office, and
boIted down stairs, but as soon as the
cold air struck it he uttered yell, and
came back on the bound, leaped into the
chair and exclaimed:
ssGet him out, quick
The dentist went to put in the for
ceps, but 'tJohn'' grabbed them, sat III
and begged that he might stand up to
have the tooth drawn.
eff you want that tooth out you mus
stop fooling and lean back, % replied the
impatient doctor.
Hap-Swap opened his mouth, but be
fore the forceps could reach the tooth he
sat up again and called:
''Tlake sling him right around
pull hard -
.I can't use a string. Come-lear
right back.
Hap-Swap leaned back, opened his
mouth until hat would hardly have
covered it, but snapped his jaws to
7gether the next instant and begged:
colt something up his eyes SO he
can't see it hurt -
the dentist blindfolded the man with
q towel, got his mouth open andthe for
.ceps at last clasped the tooth. Hap
Swap began to move around, but with 6
sudden pull the tooth was brought ou'
on the gallop.
'sW-o-o-s-h-o-u-s-h p howled the
.Ch1naman as he danced around, and az
soon as the towel was removed he grab
bed the tooth and his hat, went dowr
stairs with whoop, and as he ran ul
the avenue he held the molar up tt
everybody's gaze, and cried out:
'tJoop! Who's afraid to have ht
tooth pulled !''-Detroit Free Press.
A TEA PLANTATION.