Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-18
TIP WITH THE DENTIST.
Lively Impressions Attending the First
Use Of Gas.

| From Every Other Saturday.
With eleven teeth had parted without the
| aid of an@sthetics. Internationally / sur
| rendered them to the dentist, who was willing
| to receive them for a consideration. A twelfth
must go. AS took the chair Of torture, re-
| marked that it was four-footed molar and
| would hurt
"Take gas" suggested the dentist
"What is gas?"
known 1t is harmless and serves WELL"
III take it; give me enough"
Inc dentist brought forth a rubber bag, the
wooden muzzle of which he thrust into my
mouth.
With bound / sprang into the air. at
tempted to fasten my hold upon something, but
everything gave way-even giant elm came
up by the roots. realized that 1 had but few
to e All
bad, filed past me. I will not say which formed
the longer procession. man to whom had
and said that he knew 1 would come to it.
ro Now l was going upward, and when had
of geas a If ke
masonry-just hundred feet thick by actual
measurement. A dozen times scared aloft,
and as many times sailed down. When I
| decended all the stone fences, cobbles, powders
and trees ran to meet me. hit them ALL Now
was ascending again, but in a different man
ner. "A balloon miles in circumference was
bearing me upward. chung to its lower part
with my teeth. My hands were in my pockets,
car and out Of leaned man M rese ans
| the dentist. In his hand he held an immense
PAIR OF tongs. He regarded me with manifest
We Were rising at q fearful rate of speed-so
! last, indeed, that I could not shut my eyes.
ba mg WING n 1ast the lids open and held them
nose while pull" ! obeysi, Knowing that 1
was IN MS power. The tooth came out on the
end of the tongs, and was placed in the car.
80 soon after heard a tumult in the car above.
ha ae dentss and shook his cenched
Iootn! 1t Is growing SO fast that it will crowd
nu OUT, Pretty fellow; you are, to shed such
ankind tro1s m mol ~. thought this was very
s soo.h' and how could be responsible for its
Again the dentist appeared and cried in great
wrath: II shall throw it observation-disclosures
IL dld not hit me. saw as it whizzed by that
IL was many times larger than the Capitol build
ing at Washington. hoped that none of my
t fl were standing where 1t would fall upon
.ne eafth. We We're now near the sun and APP
proacehing nearer at lightning speed. The
leg and smoked. He had the impudence to ask
me why did not smoke. It was so warm from
further: relinquished my hold and shouted,
,Good-bye, old jawbreaker." Quick as thought;
| lnsulted, indignant, the dentist rushed for his
tongs. "Fu pull them ali," he said, and as fell
the tongs heightened and gave chase, but
| could not overtalle me.
AFTER falling all day and all night, came near
the earth early in the morning. AS flew down.
ward, a gilded weathercock on a church steeple
crowed. l considered this offensive, and by
some unknown agency, arrested my flight and
Went back to the weathercock and demanded
| 70 know what he meant by it. He crowed the
louder. This was too great an insult. l flew at
MN, when, presto, he began to crow louder, and
70 grow larger. was on the earth now, fleeing
from monster cock. The church and steepe
were still attached to him, but he had become
SO much larger that they were no impeachment.
| demonstrated with him, but his only reply
was blow from the foot that held the church
and steeple. He was on the point of dancing a
hornplpe on my stomach when l emerged into
There it ISL at the same time holding up a
tooth. did you know when 1 pulled it,
Yes saw you and your tongS pulling, but
felt II not. You were great while about it.
| How long have been here?" The dentist con-
suited his timepiece. lone minute and twenty
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