The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-02-28
BILL ARP.
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thing to the Constitution. | don't [
care what. l am too nervous. l
can't think my own thoughts. 1t
is perfectly horrible-awful, but |
reckon it is all right. | reckon
so. | wish there was not a tooth
in my head. When they come,
they come with pain aud peril, and
keep the peor child miserable, and
when they 90, they go with tor
ture that no philosophy can en-
dure. Oh, my poor jaw-just look
how it is swollen. am a sight.
| look like bloated bond,holder
on one side of my face and no
bonds to comfort me. | wonder
what would comfort a man in my
fix. | have suffered more mortal
agony from my teeth than from
everything else put together.
Sampson conldn't pull them hard
ly, for they are all riveted to the
jawbone. | have been living in
dread for a month, for | knew that
eye-tooth was fixing up trouble; /;
and so yesterday morning it
sprung a leak at the breakfast ta-
BILE, and l jumped out of my chair.
The she'll eaved in, the nerve was
touched, and in my agony gave
one groan and retired like | was a
funeral. Five miles from town
and no doctor. Don't put down
what suffered all that day, and
the night following for you can't.
Mush poultices and camphor and
paregoric and bromide and chloro-
form and still the procession NOV
cd on, and the jumping, throbbing
agony sent no flag of truee-no
cessation of hostilities. What do
! care for anything. Don't tell
me about Hendricks being in At
lanta. don't care where he is,
Yes l do. He is a good man, but
Pve got no time to think about
him now. Please give me some
more of that camphor. I've burn
ed all the skin off my mouth now
but it is q counter.irritant ant
sorter scatters the pain around
IL | had some morphine | woult
take it for | want rest. | an
tired. Oh for one short hour o
rest.
Write something, my daughte
write to The Constitution an,
explain. Tell them | am "Billy il
the low grounds" l am suffering
and want sympathy. Write o not
to the doctor, and tell him to come
come quick. | can't go throug
another night. Oh my country
Let me try that hot iron again. l.
cook this old fat jaw outside an
inside. | wish | had no tougu,
for | can't keep it from touchin
the plagued tooth. Just look {
my gums, they have swelled up s
you can hardly see the old tootl
Give me q knife and a hand glas
III see if | can't let some bloc
: out Of those strutting gums. Ia
' so nervous can't hardly hold til
knife, but here she goes. Oh, m
country, now give me the camph,
: and I'll let it burn in a new plsc
Just write a line to the Const
tuition, l don't care what-say
: am sick. | wonder if the doct,
. will come. He will kill me
know. 1t is awful to think of co
steel clamping this tooth and b
: ing jammed away upon these gum
Il I'll take chloroform, / reckon, Fl
| can't stand it. | am afraid ]
will come. | want him and | doI
= want him. The last tooth | hs
- pulled, l went to the dentists {
: nee like a hero, and l was glad
Il wasn't in-glad his door W
D locked-an for two more days
u endured my agony and then hi
. to have it pulled at last. And
= pulled me all to pieces, and t
. chloroform left me before he g
u done, and | had an awful tin
y The memory of it is excruciatir
rs and yet | have got to go throuI
70 the same thing again. "Oh, {
70 pity of it, lago, the pity of i
What has a man got teeth for,
would like to know. 1t is t
brute that is in him, the dog
the old Adam that evoluted frt
a. the monkeys. There is nothi
r: God-like about teeth. They bi
y. that is all. They are called I"
re nines.r | saw a man bite anoth
te mans nose off once-the teeth
~ it. The eye is God-like, angel
It. beautiful, harmless. The ear il
Is. good thing too, for it takes in
at harmonies of nature and NAL
re- music sweet-music that is
gn only thing common to angels
Ial to men. The nose is gentle q
he ornamental, but is of not mt
Ip- consequence except to blow OF
ri. bad cold and tell the differei
re between cologne and Goldfish,