The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-04-02


Hap @AF Chinese washelman
ut MicHgAi Agenaes awoke tho othe
night tom hia bright dream and ut
tered Q cry which was heard acros
. the street He is getting along il
age, and the toothache had come
skulking down upon him in that soft
sly way peculiar to nothing else. He
stuffed t6Heheet into his mouth, pried
around the tooth, with bair-pin, and
drew the clothes over his head and
tried tofenembefi all tlie9 dogs and
rats he had ever eaten, butiitlfwas no
60. The Polar wave had worked it.
self under double tooth, and Hap
Swap WRssseendapcing before the un-
curtaiifed windows al midnight and
doubling himselfsups in ethss 'shapeiof
O's andlS SIS and iDls. syomst os bis aa,
All, day Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday he f6amed up and down,
groanihg and signing, andqthe shirts
Of his customers hung against the bat
tered wall, neglected and forsaken.
Such nights assIIaprSEap put ia were
enough to turn his hair gray. He
sat by tke red -hbR.sto W. Hgotiinto bed,
got optsewaikedaaronndy butte there
was no restfor HIM, Yesterday morn.
ing grocer advised him to go to a
dentist and secure relief, and the
Chinaman put ON his hat and followed
boy to a toothpuller's. He was as
brave asa liopAndlhe jumped into tho
chair, leaned his head back, and cried:
Come alongee-pull EN- quickw
"I'll have that out in a York MN.
ute," repliedthe dentist, getting his
tools togethsrli saisn eGdR bna 2-@
"Take stllngtiake a. stling7 cried
the Chipaman, as he rose up and
caught sight Of the tools.
"We don't pull teeth with string
in this country was the reply. aYou
just holrlstiA fora momentfand you'll
be all right
Hap-Swap fell back with a groan,
shut his teeth bard, and it took five
minutes ol soft talk to open his jaws.
The dentist then inserted lance to
cut around the tooth, but at the first
dig his patient slid over the arm of the
chair to the foorn shoutipgi r,rrtf
"Hap-Swap stabbed in the mouth
oohl oosh?" AOg
The dentist explained to him that
the cutting Swonld makefthe tooth
pull easier, but as he talked a soft and
beautiful smile stole over the China
mans. .tpee and lHs bald; lCTluk k
"Toothache all gone--alle gone
away" lo .x..Iha III
He skipped around the Office and
bolted down stairs, but as soon as the ,
cold air struck 1t he uttered ayell and !
came back on the bound, leaped into :
The chair and exclaimed. 000,oot sn +
"Git him out. 5quickP ai 9stet :
The dentist went to put in the for, :
,eps, but "Johnr grabbed them, sat !
up, andfBegged that he might stand =
up and have il drawn
"If you want chat tooth out you =
must stop iooing ana lean back,n
'eplied edtheimpaiieBt doctor. 9aoio q allIS,
Hap-Swap opened his mouth, but !.
before the forceps could reach tho 4
Doth he sat up again and called y a A :
"Tako-stling-ppt HIM right round b
pull hardl'' =
Il can't use string UcmeAleau ;
light back. rlai baa aatap =
HaptSwap leaued back, opened his I
mouth until a hat wonld hardly have Z
covered ii; but snappedlhis jaws 10, 7
,ether the next instant, and begged: II
Git somethng-tiosup his eyes so /
10 can't seeit hurtln ln--- ------- u
The dentist blindfolded ttlIe man
With a towel, got his mouth open and !,
lie forceps at last clasped the =
ootb, Hap-Swap began TO moye :,
round, but witha sudden pun the y
Doth was brought out on, the gallop. :, y,
"W.o-o-s.h--o.u-g-hl' howled the 10 u,
,hinaman ae he danced around and =
g soon as the towel was removed he :.
theItoollnapd Ihis2 hab went N
own stairs with whoop, and as he g., g.
an up the avenue heheld the molar "a :.
p TO eyerybody's gaze and cried out; =. ~
"Joopl Who's afraid to have his ~
both pulledN--Detreit, ,Dsgs Rsss.