The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-02-18
'.BIIILY ARP IN THE Low
GROUNDS" THIS WEEK.

The Philosopher IL Not Proof Against
the TOothnche, but Calls for II Mush
POultice and Camphor and Pare
Koric, Put In His Little Bed, and
Now Resting Very easy.
Write, my child-writc something to
The Constitution. / don't care what.
l am too nervous. / can't think my
own thoughts 1t is perfectly horrible
awful, but I reckon it is NIL right. Il
reckon so. wish there was not n tooth
in my head. When they come, they
come withpain and peril, and keep the
poor child miserable, and when they z"
with a torture that no philosophy can
endure. Oh, my poor jaw-ju$t look
how it is swollen. | am Il sight. a pit
irul prospect. look like n bloatcd
bond holder on one side Of my face and
no bends TO comfort me. l wonder
what would comfort a man in my Tx |
have suffered more mortal agony from
my teeth than from everything else put
together. Sampson couldn't pull them
hardly, for they are NIL rivcted to the
jawhone. have been living in dread
for a month, for | knew that eyetooth
was fixing up trouble and so yesterday
morning it sprung a leak at the break
fast table, and | jumped. out Of my
chair. The shell cavcd in. the nerve
was touched, and in my agony I.Savc one
groan and retired like I was a funeral.
Five miles from town and no doctor.
Don't put down what I suffered all that
day, and the night following for you
can't. Mush p"ulticcS and champion
and ~parcgoric and bromide md chloro-
form and still the procession moved on,
and the jumping, throbbing agony sent
no flag Of truce-no cessation Of hos
t%ilities. What do 1 care for anything.
Don't tell me about Hendricks being in
Atlanta. don't care whele he il. Yes
/ do. He is a good man, but | have got
no time to think about him now. Please
give me some more of that camphor.
I've burned all the skin off my mouth
now but it is q counter-irritant and sor-
ter s~catters the pain around. If had
some morphine I would take it for l
want rest. 1 am tired. On for one
short hour of rest.
Write something my daughtcr-w,itc
to The Consultation and explain. Tell
them l AM "Billy in the low grounds"
I am suffering and want sympathy,
Write n note to the doctor, and tell him
to come, come quick. Icaa'l go through
another night. Oh, my country. Let
me try that hot iron again. Ill cook
this old fat jaw outside and inside.
wish l had no tongue, for I cam keep it
from touching the plagued tooth. just
look at my gums, they have swollen up
so you can hardly see the old tooth
Give me a knife and a hand glass. III
see if | cant let some blood out Of those
struggling gums. I am so nervous
can't hardly hold the knife but here She
goes. Oh, my country, now give MT
the camphor and I'll let it burn in a new
place. ~ :. =
Bet wr.--6e to ne Constitution
1 don't care swhat-say I am sick.
wonder If the doctor will come. II,
will KLINE know. 1t isawful to thinl
of cold steel clatnping this tooth an.
being damned away mp on these gums
t'liftake chloroform I reckon for l can
standit. ] am afraid he will come.
want him and 7 don't want him. Tn,
lasttooth I had pulled ] went to the den
lists office like n hero and | was glad h,
wasn't in-glad his door was locked
and for two more days endured my az
ony and then had to have it pulled a
last. And he pulled me all to pieces ant
tho chloroform left me- before he 90
done I Ind al awful time. The m-mor,
of itisexcruciating, and yet | have go
to 60 through the same thing again
"oh, the pity of it, Iaso, the pity Of it.
What has n man got teeth for | woult
like to know. 1t is the brute that is il
him. the dog or the old Adam that evo
lutcs from the monkeys. There is moth
ing God-like about teeth. They bite
that is all. They are called 'canincs.'
saw a man bite another mans nose of
once-thct teeth did it. The eye is God.
like, angelic. beautiful, harmless. tn.
ear isa good thing too, for it takes in
the barmonies Of nature. and make:
music sweet-music That is the onl,
thing common to angels and men. The
hose is gentle and ornamental, butt is no,
of mnch consequence except to blow of
a bad cold and tell the difference be.
tween cologne and codfsh, but the teeth
Well, | think that faslc ones arc bette,
than the genuine for they never ache
don't care for any now. am tired
These women can have eight or ten
pulled at one time-just to get another
set. How in the world do the stand IL Z