Mohave County miner., 1883-06-24
Only a Slight Mistake.

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 ble to occur in the best regulated : families, made quite 8 laugh in a
 West side residence few days ago
 The lady of the house had beer
 grumbling about a corn on her foot
 for months. and her husband had
 tried in vain to get her to consent tC
 have a regularly ordained ''cOrn den
 tist" come up and remove 1t, but she
 was nervous about having a horrid
 man touch her bare foot, and she
 suffered along until Tuesday, when
 in moment of agony, she told the
 old man to send up his corn dentist
 as quick as he had a mind to. He
 vert down to his office and ordered the corn man to go up. He had al
 ready ordered a plumber to go to the
 house and mend some gas iiitures that had sprung a 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 beng asked, 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 re moved 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 plncers, two files and a 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 uutil she asked:
 'Is this going to hurt much? If it is I had rather suffer the annoy ance."
 70, uo," said the man, looking up at the gas bracket by the window, which had rag around the joint that leaked. ''I can screw the cap onto the joint, so the gas can not es cape," and seeing the lady's bare foot so near him, he opened his eyes ID won der and blushed like a girl She looked at him and wondered why he did not go to work on her foot, and he looked as little like the way she supposed corn doctor would look as possible. Taking up big pair of pinchers, and taking match, to light small can- dle which he carried, to test leaky gas fixtures, he said;
 "Where does it seems to he the worst?" "There," says the little wo- man, bending over and plaolng her fin ger on the next to the little toe Right between those two toes. It Is a soft corn and sometimes makes me wild. Now, do be careful, won't you," as the man dropped his pincers and stood back as though he had been struck by lightning. Then he laughed | out loud and said:
 Madam, I have been in the plumb ing business twenty two years, but this is the first time was ever called upon to repair broken joint on 8 woman's toe Excuse me-" and he be- gan to roll up hls tools.
 Heavens and earth" said the woman. as she tried to put on her wrong end first, and blush ing so she looked as pretty as though she never had corn, ,H'I thought you was a corn doctor. There Is the gas fixture you are to putty up," and she went out of the room in her stocking feet to blow up the girl for sending a plumber to plumb a corn. The corn doctor soon arrived and did hls work, and when he and the plumber went out together they were having great laugh as they turned the cor ner. When she tells her husband to send up man to dc any work about the house now, she stipulates he shall not send a plumber whatever he does. .Peck's Snn.