Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-05-29
'.tsittin Her Tooth Drawed.'
[From The Detroit Free Press.l

About ten o'clock yesterday
morning a farmer and his wife
hitched their team on Woodward
avenue, and in another five min
utes had mounted the stairs ard
appeared in dentists Office. The
old lady had her face tied up and
there was smell ofcamphor, pep
permint, paregoric, turpentine and
oil of smoke AS she crossed the
walk.
"Brace up now. Mary, brace upw
cautioned the husband, as they
started to climb the stairs. II
know jist how ye feel kinder
weak in the knees, like--but the
felier up stairs III have that old
snag out % there like horse rum
ming down hill +
They were met by the smiling
dentist, and the husband contin-
ued:
"She's got I'm old snag which we
want drawed or dug out or driven
in, or suthin' or other!'
take Il chair, madam" replied
the dentist, "and guess can
help YOU
II vuml If / hain't mind 10
back cut. she said, dropping ON
TO tho sofa.
+" Brace, Mary-brace |" COM
manded the husband. why even
little children so high (measuring)
come ~ every day and have their
teeth drawed Tor fun !"
~ don't b'Iieve 1t ~ she bluntly
replied.
lido YOU suppose I'd lie TO you,
Mary do You s'poae I'd tell a de-
liberate lie right here 2" asked the
husband.
She seemed to think he would,
but didn't say SO. and the dentist
talked softly aud sweetly, and fin
ally induced her to remove
her shawl and hat and sit down
in the chair. While he was look-
ing over his Instruments the hus-
band remarked:
"You want TO brace. Mary. Hold
yer mouth open as wide as you
possibler can, and Cont try to-
look outen the winder."
81 wish ye'd smut up!' she snap
ped, sitting up straight. "Don't
YOU s'pose j know enuff to git
tooth drawed ?"
"But can't yer own husband
speak to We, Mary--the husband
who has lived with you nigh on
to thirty-six years ?"
The dentist waved him away
and caioled the woman into lean
ing back and opening her mouth.
He found the cause of the misery |
to be an old snag of tooth, which
would have to be dug around, but !
as soon az the lance touched the
gum she screamed out and strug-
gled up.
"Mary-dear Mary, why do you
boiler ~ exclaimed the husband.
rushing over to her side.
"She's all right--th worst is
over" replied the dentist.
"Oh, she'll stand it like an elc-
phant--she's got real grit, haven't
you Nary"
She fell back, opened ner mouth
again and again the lance made
her scream out.
brace, Maiy-shut yer eyes and
hold on to the cheer ~ exclaimed
the husband.
81 wish you'd squat over there |
and stay there ~ she snarled after
splitting out u mouthful of blood.
.But / can't sit there and here
you boiler and moan and take ON
so"
"Who's holierin'?"
You did"
"No, l didn't
MARY, don't tell me a Iic--a
bold, straight lie-right afore this
dentisterp
The dentist induced him to be
seated again, but it was five min
utes before the woman would open
her moHth. She declared that the
ache had entirely vanished, and
that her tooth never felt SO we'll in
her life. :"
Don't try to crawfish, Mary :.
don't try that I" exclaimed her
husband.
"Will you shet up!n she shout
ed.
"No, | won':, durn me If l do
Here you've kept noe awake four
teen nights, hawlin' with that old
tooth. You've jawed and howled
and tore around like an old camel,
and now you We got to have that
tooth drawed or you'll go home
afoot ~
She wanted to get out Of the
chair and 90 for him, bur the dem
list persuaded him into going toa
drug store after ten drops of laud-
anum, and while he was absent |
the tooth was extracted. Mary
svas haI.ncjnv ii an her hand as he 1