The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
A Pleasant Surprise.

My brother Johnny says he would do
for firstclass bumble-bee he's as hot
all over as il he had forty stings. We've
been talking through the stove-hole to
comfort each other. This hole is in the
wall at the side Of my bed; SO, il I put
chair on the bed and then climb up
and stand on tiptoe, 1 can see into
Johnny's room, and we can have good
talk.
We're in trouble, and this is how it
happened
One day last week our teacher read us
a story about good little girl who had
sick father; and he was going to starve
TO death cause he hadn't any money to
buy oranges; and everything had gone
wrong inside. Well, the good little girl
heard that dentist wanted some teeth,
and would pay well for them. q don't
see why he should pay money for teeth,
when he could have his own for nothing.)
The little girl had fine teeth, so she
went to the dentist and asked him to
take some out and pay her the money
they were worth, for her poor father.
Then the dentist made her tell him all
about her father; and he wouldn't take
the teeth, but he gave her the money
all the same, and went 10 see her father,
and got doctor for him, 90 he didn't
die.
II was beautiful story, and made me
CRY. Johnny said it wasn't anything to
cry about; stories like that were for ex-
amples, and when we had q chance we
must 60 and do likewise.
Well, this morning, when father was
putting on his overcoat, Johnny and I
asked him for penny. And father, he
said we were always wanting pennies,
and he wasn't made of money and then
he went out.
Sister Em began to cry, cause father
said she couldn't have q new dress this
Easter. Everything was going wrong,
and he didn't know what would become
Of him, and he was sick Of everything.
Johnny and I didn't cry; We only
looked at each other.
While we were going TO school, Johnny
raid this was our chance. Now we
could do like the good little girl, and be
support TO our parents. Dentists
always wanted teeth, and we'd 60 to the
dentist right away after school, and have
1t over.
"And then," says Johnny, eff we've
made &5 for father, perhaps he'll give us
our penny, cause it'll be such @ pleasant
surprise to him."
We couldn't hardly wait for school to
be out. I got black mark in arith-
metic, cause when Miss Stevens asked
me II you had an apple, and if Samuel
Smith ate 1t up, what had you left? I
said. "Your teeth"
After school we walked about till We
came TO dentists, and We went in, and
asked him II he wanted some teeth.
And he said, "Why7 Did We want to
lose some2" And we told him, eyes.
We thought he would sit down and
ask us all about il, just as the other dem
tist did with the good little girl; but he
only said:
Lets look at EN-"
Then he made Johnny climb up in the
high chair. and tip his head back and
then he said. "You want these two out
that crowd the rest" Then he put an
iron thing into Johnny's mouth, and
pulled out one tooth, and then he pulled
another. And he said Johnny was 9
brave boy cause he didn't holloa.
asked Johnny il it hurt, and he said
"Not much, and don't you disgrace the
family, Kitty White. by howling."
Snow, my little lady" !" says the dem
tist, "get into the chair, and I'll be q,
gentle az I can." So he helped mo up
and tipped back my head, and looked.
"Your teeth are crowded Just lik,
your brother's," says he; and then he
begins TO pull.
MY, how il hurt And didn't I maxi
noissi I thought my head was coming
on. But il was over In . minute, and
the dentist told Johnny not TO laugh .
me, cause my teeth came harder thai
his did.