The Dawson journal., 1883-09-27
The Corn Dentist and the Plum.
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~ o0cuI Ill tue pest regulat.
ed families made quite a laugh in
a west side residence few days
ago. The lady of the house had
been grumbling about corn on
her foot for months and her hus
band had tried in vain to get her
to consent to have regular or
dalned "corn dentist come M
and remove it, but she was afraid
it would hurt, and she was nery-
GUS about having horrid man
touch her barefoot, and she suf-
fered along until Tuesday, when,
IN a moment of agony, She told
the old man to send up his corn
dentist as quick as he had mind
to. He went down to his office
and ordered the corn man to 90
up. He had had already ordered
a plumber to 60 to the house and
mend some gas fixtures that had
sprung leak, and the plumber
got there first. The lady gave
orders that if man called with
some corn tools to send him up to
her room. The plumber rang the
bell, and on being asked where
the work was to be done, the girl
told him to go up the lady's room,
and the man went up. He had a
roll of cloth with tools in it, and
as he put it down on the floor to
unroll the tools, the lady took off
her slipper and removed her stock
ing and placed her foot on a has
sock. She looked at the plumbers
tools on the floor and almost faint
ed. There was a big pair of pin
chers and two files and a lot of
iron things that looked big enough
to remove the corns from an ele-
phant. The man was sorting out
the tools and didn't notice the wos.
mans fright until she asked, "Is
this going to hurt much? if it is
had rather suffer the annoyance"
"Ob, no" said the man, looking
up at the gas bracket by the win
dow, which had a rag wound
around the joint which leaked.
81 can screw the cap onto the
joint so the gas cannot escape"
and seeing. the woman's bare feet
SO near him he opened his eyes in
wonder and blushed like a girl.
She looked at him and wondered
why he didn't go to work on her
foot. He was great big muscu-
lar fellow, and he looked as little
like the way she supposed corn
doctor would look as possible.
Taking up pair Of big pincers,
and taking a match to light
small candle which he carried to
test leaky gas fixtures, he said:
"Where does it seem to be worse?"
"There," said the little woman,
bending over and placing her fin
ger on the toe next to the little
toe. Fright between these two
toes. 1t is soft corn and some
times it makes me wild Now,
do be careful, wont you?" as the
man dropped his pinchers and
stood back as though he had been
struck by lightning. Then he
laughed out aloud and said: "Ma-
dame, l have been in the plumber
business twenty-five years, but
this is the first time [ was ever
called to repair a broken joint on a
woman's toe. Excuse me" and he
began to roll up his tools. "Hea-
vens and earth!" said the woman
as she tried to put on her stocking
wrong end first, and blushing so
she looked as pretty as though she
never had corn, 81 thought you
was corn dentist" There is
the gas fixture you are to put"
and she went out of the room in
her stocking feet to blow up the
girl for sending plumber to
plumb a corn. The corn doctor
arrived soon, and did his work,
and when he and the plumber went
out together they were having a
great laugh as they turned the
corner. When she tells her hus-
band to send up man to do any
work aroend the house now, she
stipulates that he shall not send
plumber, whatever he does.