The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-03-04
Chinese To0thache.

NO. VI NJ Mlcnlgan avenue, awOkc tnc OtucI
right from his bright dream and uttered
cry which was heard across the street.
He is getting along in age and the tooth
ache 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 Q
hair-pin, and drew the clothes over his
head and tried to remember 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-Swap
was seen dancing before the uncurtained
windows at midnight and Doubling him
self up in the shape of O's and SIS and
DIS.
All day Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday he roamed up and down, groan-
ing and signing, and the shirts OF his
customers hung 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.
Yesterday morning grocer advised him
to 90 to u dentists and secure relief, and
the Chinaman put ON his hat and fol-
lowed boy to tooth-puller's. He was
as brave as a lion, and he jumped into
the chair, leaned his head back, and
cried:
"Come alongee-pull 'em quick"
"Pll have that out in York minute"
replied the dentist, getting his tools to-
gether.
"Tlake sting! Take stling!' cried
the Chinaman, as he rose up and caught
sight of the tools.
"We don't pull teeth with string in
this country" was the reply. You
lust hold still for moment and you'll
be all right"
HapSwap fell back with groan, shut
his teeth hard, and it took five minutes
of soft talk to make him open his jaws.
The dentist then inserted a lance to cut
around the tooth, but at the first dig his
patient slid over the arm of the chair to
the floor, shouting:
Hap-Swsp stabbed in the mouth
ooh! oosh!''
The dentist explained to him that the
cutting would make the tooth pull easier,
but as he talked a soft and beautiful
smile stole over the Chinaman's face
and he said:
"roothache allie gone-alle gone
awayr
He skipped around the Office and
bolted down stairs, but as soon as the
cold air struck it he uttered a yell and
came back on the bound, leaped into the
chair and exclaimed:
"Git him out quick"
The dentist went to put in the forceps,
but John grabbed them, sat up and
begged that he might stand up to have
the tooth drawn. ~.
"lf you want that tooth out you
stop fooling and LEI an back" repSdation,,;;
impatient doctor. 49,
Hap-Swap opened his moutl
fore the forceps could reach tt e''' .;
sat up again and called: sas- .-yaaoo !,
"Tlake stling-put him i, aoq MOI q,oq :
pull hardP' pae 2auorl
81 can't use a string. g.s'Hnu -. g
right back" Sue t5a,a.
Hap-Swap leaned back, o ) ID
mouth until hat would harbae lV
covered it, but snapped his jaws to- oS
the next instant and begged: R
"Git something-tie up his eyes so he,
can't see it hurt"
The dentist blindfolded the man with
a towel, got his mouth open and the for
ceps at last clasped the tooth. Hap
Swap began to move around, but with .
sudden pull the tooth was brought out
on the gallop.
W-o-o-s.h-o-u-s-hr' howled the Chi
naman as he danced around, and as soon
as the towel was removed he grabbed
the tooth and his hat, went down stairs
with whoop, and as he ran up the ave-
nue. he held the molar up to everybody's
gaze, and cried out:
"Joop! Who's afraid to have he tooth
pulled?"-Daroit Free Prsss.
On the evening train from Albany, re-
cently,was q woman bound for Westdeld,
who persisted in requesting the affable
conductor to inform her when Chester
was reached. Every time when tho con-
ductor passed through the car he was
greeted with, "Pleaso tell me when We
get to Chester" Courteous man though
he is, even his patience WAS finally ox-
unfortunate female TO maintain sile0co,
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