Daily globe., 1883-08-15
The Corn Dentist and Plumber.

The lady of the house had been
grumbling about corn on her foot for
months, and her husband had tried in
vain to get her to consent to have
a regularly ordained "corn dentist"
come up and remove it, but she was
afraid it would hurt, and she was nerv-
GUS about having horrid man touch
her bare foot, and she suffered along
till Tuesday, when, in 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 go up. He
had already ordered plumber to go
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 rung the bell, and on being
asked where the work was to be done,
the girl told him to go up to 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 stocking, and placed her
foot on a hassock She looked at the
plumbers tools on the floor, and almost
tainted. There was big pair of pin
GERS, and two files, and lot of iron
things that looked big enough to re-
move the corns from an elephant The
man was sorting out the tools, and didn't
notice the woman's fright, until she
asked;
Us it going to hurt much? IF it is,
I had rather suffer the annoyance"
"Oh, no." said the man, looking up
at the gas-bracket by the window,
which had a rag wound around the
joint which leaked. "I can screw the
cap onto the joint, so the gas cannot
escape" and seeing the woman's bare
foot so near him he opened his eyes in
wonder, and blushed like a girl. She
looked at him and wondered why he did
not go to work on her foot. He was a
great, big, muscular fellow, and he
looked as little like the way she sup
posed corn-doctor would look as pos
sible. Taking up big pair of pinch
ers, and taking a match, to light a
small candle which he carried, to test
leaky gas-fxtures, he said:
hCLO OOOo IL oOOAA w NO o1O
worst?"
There, says the little woman, bend
ing over and placing her finger on the
next to the little toe. Fright between
those two toes. It is a soft corn, and
sometimes it makes me wild. Now, dc
be careful, won't you?" as the man
dropped his pinchers and stood back as
though he had been struck by light
ming. Then he laughed out loud, and
said:
Madame, I have been in the plumb
| ing business twenty-five years, but this
| is the first time I was ever called upo1
to repair broken joint on woman's
toe. Excuse me-" and he began to roll
up his tools.
Heavens and earth!" said the
woman, as she tried to put her stocking
on wrong end first, and blushing so she
looked as pretty as though she never
had corn, Il thought you was corn
doctor. There is the gas-fxture yo1
are to putty up" and she went out il
her stocking feet to blow up the gir
for sending plumber to plumb corn
The corn-doctor arrived soon, and die
his work, and when he and the plumbe
went out together they were having
great laugh as they turned the corner
When she tells her husband to send III
a man to do any work about the hous