, 1885-05-07
4 roorH-PuLLIna FANTASY.
A Flying Trip In n Dentists chair-Foot-
Loose Among the Spheres.

A Flying Trip In n Dentists ~ChaIr-Foot-
Loose Among the spheres.
George Appleton stockwelLl
With eleven teeth had l parted with
out the aid of anHsthetics. Uncondi-
t~ionally l surrendered them TO the dent
list, who was willing to receive them for
a consideration. A twelfth must CO.. As
| took the chair of torture, / remarked
that it was a four-footed molar and
would hurt. Ur
Take gas" suggested the dentist.
Nitrogen mOnoxide-the best anRs-
theties known. 1t is harmless and
serves we'll"
an take it; give me enough" j
The dentist brought forth a rubber
bag, the wooden muzzle of which he
thrust into my mouth.
With a bound / sprang into the air.
| attempted to fasten my hold upon
something, but everything gave way
even A giant elm came up by the roots.
/ realized that / bad but a few minutes
to live. All my friends-I saw every
one-were watching me. My deeds,
good and bad, filed past me. | will
not say which formed the longer pro-
cession. A man to whom | had given
a pewter quarter asked me how l liked
it, and said he knew l would come to it.
ulNow | was going upward, and when |
had reached a great height, / swooped
down like a bird of prey, and dashed
through a wall of solid masonry-just
100 feet thick by actual measurement.
A dozen times | scared aloft, and as
many times sailed down. When ! de-
scended all the stone fences, cobbles,
bonlders and trees ran to meet me. /
hit them all. No | was ascending again
but in a different manner. A balloon,
miles in circumference, was bearing me
upward. | chung to its lower part with
my teeth. My hands were in my peck
cts, for the air was chilly. Above me
WAS the balloon car, and out of il leaned
II man resembling the dentist. In his
hands he heldan immense pair of tongs-
He regarded me with manifest displeas-
ure. 800 aliaIaar rrt rai.f nI .-,.
We were rising at a fearful rate of
speed-so fast indeed that l could not
shut my ewes. The wind blew the lids
open and held them back. At last the
man in the car said: Now I'll pull
that tooth; you must cling with your
nose while | pull" | obeyed, knowing
/ was in his power. The tooth came
out on the end of the tongs, and was
BAACOA III thQ N0As ROOh AAtSA a % -
tumult in the car above. The dentist
appeared and shook his clenched hand
at mo, and shouted: 'Confound your
old tooth; it is growing so fast that it
will crowd me out. Pretty fellow you
are 10 shed such a monstrous molar.' |
thought this was very unkind. | had
not asked him to pull the tooth, and
how could / be responsible for the size.
Again the dentist appeared and cried
in great wrath; l shall throw it oyei-
board-look outr' 1t did not hit me. l
saw as it whizzed by that it was many
times larger than the capitol building at
Washington. / hoped that lone Of my
friends were standing where it would
fall upon the earth. We were now near
the sun and approaching nearer at light
ming speed. The dentist sat on the
edge of the car, dangling his legs and
smoked. He had the impudence to ask
me if | did not smoke. It was so warm
from proximity to the sun that | decided
to go no further. | ~relinquished my
hold and shouted: Goodbye, old Jaw
breaker" Quick as thought, insulted,
indignant, the dentist reached for his
tongs. tTn pull them all, he said,
and as l fell the tongs heightened, and
gave chase, but could not oyertake me.
After falling all day and all night l
came near the earth early in the morn
ing. AS l flew downward a gilded
weather-coc on achurch steeple crowed.
l considered this offensive, and by some
unknown agency, arrested my flight,
and went back to the weather-cock and
demanded to know what he meant by ii.
He crowed the louder. This was too
great an insult. l flew at him, when,
presto, he began to crow louder and to
grow larger. I was on earth now
fleeing from a monster cock.
The church and steeple were still at
tached to him, but he had become so
much larger that they were no impedi-
ment. l demonstrated with him, but
his only reply was n blow from the foot
that held the church and steeple. He
was on the point of dancing a hornpipe
on my stomach when 1 emerged into a
new world in time to hear the dentist
say There it ISL at the same time
holding up a tooth. did you know
when 1 pulled it2' Eyes; l Jaw you
and your tongs pulling, but l felt it moi.
You were a gaeat while about It'll How
long have l been herel" The dentist
consulted his ~timepiece. zone minute
and twenty seconds