The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-05-11
A PLEASANT SURPRISE.
BY KITTY WHITE.


BY KITTY WHITE.
My brother johnny says he would do
for first-class bumble-bce; he's as hot
all over as if 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, if put
a chair on the bed, and then climb up
and stand on tiptoe, | can see into John
ny's room, and we can have a 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
a 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. Il don't
see why he should pay money for teeth,
when he could have his own for moth
ing). The little girl had fine teeth, so
she went to the den ist 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 TO see her father,
and got a doctor for him, so he didn't
die.
It was a beautiful story, and made me
cry. johnny said it wasn't anything to
cry about; stories like that were for
examples, and when we had chance
we must just go and do likewise.
Wen, this morning, when father was
putting on his overcoat, Johnny and
asked him for a penny. And father, he
said we were always wanting pennies,
and he wasn't made of money; and
then he went out
Sister En- began to cry, cause father
said she couldn't have 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 l didn't cry; we only
looked at each other.
While we were going to school, John
ny said this was our chance. Now we
could do like the good little girl, and be
support to our parents. Dentists al
ways wanted teeth, and we'd go to the
dentist right away after school, and
have IL over.
" And then says Johnny, elf we've
made five dollars 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. got black mark in arith-
metic, cause when Miss Stevens asked
me if you had an apple, and if Samuel
Smith ate it up, what had you leftP
said - Your teeth" :"
After school we walked about till we
came to a dentists, and we went i'm,
and asked him if he wanted some teeth.
And he said: " Why? Did we want to
l., 4 til 1, Vaes
We thought he would sit down and
ask us all about it, just as the other
dentist did with the good little girl but
he only said
"Let's look ut 'em."
Then he made Johnny climb up in the
high chair, and tip his head back and
then he said 81 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 a
brave boy cause he didn't holloa.
asked Johnny if it hurt, and he said:
'' Not much, and don't you disgrace the
family, Kitty White, by bowling"
Now, my little lady" says the
dentist, get into the chair, and I'll be
as gentle as / cam So he helped me
up, and tipped back my head, and
looked.
.'Your teeth are crowded just like
your brothers )" says he; and then he
begins to pull.
Nv. how it hurtl And didn't ] make
a noise! thought my head was coming
of. But IL was over in minute, and
the dentist told Johnny not to laugh at
me, cause my teeth came harder than
his did.
When our teeth were out, we thought
the dentist would pay us. He asked us
whose little boy and girl we were, and
where we lived, and said this was
pleasant weather for little folks.
After a while he said: 1t S four dol
lars
We thought he had four dollars for
us, and held out our hands, but he
didn't give us anything. Instead Of
that, he said: q Haven't you got any
money!"
Then Johnny explained to him that
we thought he would pay us for our
teeth, so that we could help our poor
father.
The dentist began to laugh, and said
he didn't pay for teeth; but he would
give us letter that would make it all
right.
So he wrote a letter, and sealed it,
anu bDlA ODBAifH 10 DG sure I'd give IL 10
father. He kept laughing all the time
he was writing it. and we thought he
was the pleasantest man in the world
When we got home. Johnny said we'd
better wait till after dinner to give
father his pleasant surprise. And at
first / was glad we'd waited, for the
roast beef was too brown, and father
said: . There never could be a piece Of
beef done right in this house and Mrs
White, my dear, if you could only have
a carving knife that would CUT believe
your son uses the carving knife for a
jaekknife.''
We felt so sorry for poor father that
we thought we'd give him his surprise
then, so he'd feel better Jnhny took
out the letter and gave it to him. lie
sits next to father. and i sit next To
Johnny. Father took the letter, and
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