The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-21
CHINESE TOOTHACHE.

The MANNER N WHICH HAP-SwAP LOST A MOIAH
Hap-Swap, Chinese washerman at No. g
Michigan Avenue awoke the other night from
, his bright dream and uttered cry which wa.
heard across the street. He is getting along
IN age, and the tocthache 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 hairpin
and drew the clothes over his head and tried
to remember all the dogs and rats lie had ever
eaten, but it was no 90 The Polar wave h "a
worked Itself under double tooth. and Hap
Swap was seen dancing before the incur
tanned windows at midnight and doubling
himself up in the shape Of O's and - and
DIS.
All day Tuesday, Wodne Say and Thursday
he ro3med up and down, groauing and sigh
ing, and the shirts Of his customers hung
against the battered walls, neglected ana for
gotten. Such nights as Hap Swap put il were
enough to turn his har gray. lie sat by the
red-hot stove, got into bed, got out. walked
around, but there was no rest for him. Yes
terday morning dentist advised him to 60 to
a dentists and secure relief, and the China
man put On his hat and followed q boy 10 n
tooth-puler's He was AS .rave rs a lion, and
he jumped into the chair, leaned hin head
back and cried
Come aIongee pull en- quick
"I'il have that out in {. York minute" re-
piled the dentist, getting his tools together.
Take a sting Takc a sting = cried The
Chinaman, as he rose up and caught sigh. of
the tools.
''We don't pull teeth with string in this
country" was the rep y. You iust hold still
for moment and you'll be al right
Hap-SEap fell back with groan, sh1t hi,
teeth hard and il took five minutes of soft
talk to make him open his jaws. Tie dentist
then inserted a lance to cnt around the tooth,
but at the first dig his patient slid over the
arm OF the chair to the floor shouting:
"Hap-Swap stabbed l.. the mOuin-ooh
oos]i 7"
The dentist explained to him that the cut
ting would make the tooth pull easier, but
as he talked soft and beautiful smile stole
over the Chinaman's face, and he said
Toothache ale e-alle gone away :"
SIIe skipped around the office and bclted
DOWN stairs, but as soon as the cold air struck
it he uttered yell and came back on the |
bound, ieaped into the char and exclaimed !:
Git him out, quick
The dentist went 20 put III the torceps, but |
John" grabbed them, sat up, and begged |
that he might stand up to have the tooth |
drawn.
If you want that tooth out You must
stop fooling and lean back. replied the i'm
patient doctor
Hap-Swap opened his mouth, but before
the toreeps could reach the tooth he sat up
again and called:
:" Take sitting put him right around pull
hard !"
. 1 cana uso q string. Come gea,s right
back
Hap-Swap leaned back, opened his mouth,
until a hat would hardly have covered it, but
snapped his Jaws together the nexs instant
md begged:
Cit something tie up his eyes % BE can't
see it hurt
The dentist blindtolled the man with a
owel, got his mouth open and the forcers at
asst clasped the tooth. Hap-sway began to
move around, but with Sudden pull the
Doth was brought out on the gallop
"Woo-sh o-u-s-h howled the CMnaman
S he danced around, and as soon d the towel
'as removed he grabbed the tooth and his
at, went down stairs with whoop, and as
e ran up the avenue he held the molar up to
rybodg gaze and cried out
'Joop Who's afraid to have ne tooth