The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-12-09
NUMBER 12.

turned to leave the room.
Nav gazed after him in utter disgust
for moment, and then, breaking into
a merry laugh. she called after him:
"Oh. Fred Lathrop! You are afraid!
What NONSENSE! Girls never fai1t! 1
am going into the orchard, too, and see
you pull that toothr' And she darted
after him.
When the children reached shady
spot beneath the wide-spreading trees.
a new idea came to the little boy.
"Oh, now I've got the very thing,
May" he cried. joyfully. picking up
q smooth red apple from q low-hanging
limb. 81 know how to do it now! I'll
tie the thread around the apple very
strong and then we'll play catch-you
go over there and I'll throw it to you
real hard. and away it will go and the
old tooth with it! Isn't that good
way?''
"Splendidr' returned May, dancing
merrily about. ''Let's go and get Jim
to help fasten the string.
And SO away they went to the barn
where the hired man was working, and
with his assistance made the apple
secure ut the end of the thread. Then
they ran again to the orchard. Hav-
ing taken their places, May held up
her hands and said:
"Now throw it, Fred, and out it
will come! Throw it hardr'
Freddy drew back his arm. Then he
stopped.
he said.
"What, nowP" asked his sister.
Yes, it feels like it." replied the
boy, earnestly. 81 shouldn't wonder
if it ached awfully before dinner time,
and maybe it will be SO bad by night
that cannot sleepr'
Mays face clouded. "Oh, that's too
badr' Then a bright thought came.
"But if you pull it ,so,o, Fred, it won't
ache! Throw the apple and be rid of
it!'
"No." said Fred. 81 mustn't. It's
very bad to pull q tooth when it's just
going to ache. After it's through ach-
ing is the time"
"Oh, Fred Lathrop! who said SOP"
"Well, I've heard it." returned the
boy, seating himself upon the grass,
apple in hand. ..Anyway I'm going to
wait and see if it does ache"
You're a regular cot0ardn' cried
May, emphatically. "and 1 know you
won't pull that tooth at all! I'm going
into the house, so there, sirr' And for
getting her resolve to remain until the
operation was over, the little lady
turned away in disdain.
'Ha, hap laughed Freddy, throwing
himself at length upon the grass.
f" You're the one that's afraid. You're
scared of the blood! Girls always arer'
But May was gone, and the only an
Gun fc fI,n Ix<,xyt 10 orb ho n
ing of the grasshoppers in the wheat
stubble and the far away pipe of the
quail in the corn. The air was soft and
warm, the wind still, the trees motion
less. ALL nature seemed to be at rest
or asleep, and, lying there with eyes
closed, Freddy, too, at last fell asleep.
Whether he dreamed or not do not
know. A robin came and Lit over his
head and sang softly and he might have
dreamed of that; and bye-and-bye old
Bess, the COW, who was daintily pick
ing at the tenderest grasses in the
orchard, came slowly by and stopped to
look at him and wonder what kept him
SO still, and he might have dreamed of
that.
But the robin flew away, and old
Bess, after standing moment close to
the quiet boy, moved steadily on, and
Freddy still slept. Once he started
little when the cow was near him, but
he did not wake up; and it was not
until May came out to find and call him
to dinner that he opened his bright,
brown eyes.
Erred, dinners all ready, and why,
yots'U pulled your TOOTH"
Freddy sat upright in an instant.
So Pulled mn t00th--pO!n
..But it's gone! It's gone!" fairly
shricked May. ''You mast have
pulled it, and you've forgotten about
it because you've been asleep! Oh,
Fred! You are brave after ALI" And
May threw her arms about her broth
er's neck and kissed him.
.But certainly didn't pull it May
honest and true. It's gone now, but it
wasn't gone when I went to sleepr'
And the boys face was filed with as
tonishment-
s.Who could have done it, )" said May.
puzzled. 81 do believe it was
uncle Dick. Let's 60 and ask him.
The children ran to the house.
Mamma, papa and uncle Dick were al
ready at the table. Hurrying into the
room, Freddy told his wonderful story
and called upon his uncle to confess.
"You know you must have pulled it,
for / didn't, and it was out when I
awoke. You owe me the ten cents
though. for you promised it even if you
pulled itr'
Uncle Dick laughed and drew shin
ing dime from his pocket.
"The moneys yours, Fred, and fair
" earned, for the tooth is surely pulled;
but my dear boy, 1 did not do it for
haven't seen you since since you left
here this morning"
Freddy looked from one to the other
in spechless amazement. Papa broke
into hearty laugh.
"Well, well! This is q strange af-
fair! I wish that my aching teeth
might disappear in like manner while
I sleep. Some good fairy must have
done it, Fred. But never mind now
sit down and eat your dinner and we
will find out the unknown dentist by
and by you may be sure"
But papa was wrong. Dinner was
eaten, the long afternoon passed and
supper time came, and the mystery was
still unsolved. But after tea, as the
children sat with mamma upon the
porch, and the evening shadows. soft
and brown, crept silently toward them
from the willows along the creek, Jim
came around the corner of the house
from the barn carrying in his hand a bit
Of thread-at the end Of which hung the
missing tooth.
"See what found dangling from old
Bess' mouthr' said he, laughing.
Erred" said uncle Dick, "she
must have come along while you
we're asleep in the orchard and
eaten the apple which May tied on for
you, and so, unknown both to herself
and to you, pulled your tooth as she
moved away. The string caught in her
mouth and has hung there ever since"
And Freddy laughed until he almost
cried to think of old Bess as dentist;
and the next day he presented her with
half q peck of apples in payment for
he service which she had rendered him