Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-01-23

asa, Haxby," sed friend to me,
az he tux a seat on the cole bucket
in mi clearinghouse attick, ''what IL
the matter with your Ease? Anyone
hit your"
No wonder he axed such ques-
ton. Mi jaw wuz sweled up az if
had cokernut in mi mouth, and
red handkerchief WIZ tied around
the distorted side NV mi Ease. 1t wuz
the same old story--the dentist had
been paing attenshun to my tethe.
You Sc, / mite blu out the two-cent
candle which had weged into an
|; old peppur-box, and went to bed az
usual Sune wuz in the land NV
dremes, walking in big orchard,
| wher ROXY, red appuls and yello
peches hung on the clustering bouhs.
But i could not rech them, and the
/, tres were too big to cline. After
making several unsuccessful at
tempts to jump up and cetch the
frute, i spied a putty -gud size-stoan
mere by and stuped to pick it up,
when 10 big snak run out and
woke up! The rune wuz silent
/ The fire wuz out Everything wuz
restful-except an old sinner NV q
Jaw tuth that had been growing for
several munths NV the hard times.
Tt sent out panes every 2 minits that
wracked mi Who'll sistem. i grined
and tried to bear it, but the more i
grined, the nader the tuth became,
and it thumped and thumped and
thumped. aroze and began walk
ing the fore, but it wuz no use, and
after FREEING 2 NV mi toes, desisted.
But the bed wuz too small for me
! and that tuth. / NY us must die.
Which l.? / sed the tuth, but it
wouldn't agre, and kept wurking
ava for dere life. SUDDENLY, brite
idea struk me. 1t wuz az agreeable
az a solid mele at mi lanlord's tabul.
The tuth must go to the dentist. No
suner thought NV than acted upon,
and in les than minuts and seek
onds wuz knocking at the tuth-
docktor's door The old fellow wuz
az def az a male. He luked so saw
age az he asked me what wanted
that wuz about turning back home
again, when the tuth almost jump
ed out NV mi mouth. SO sed:
~ want mi tuth pulled"
"Hey? Want your tuth filed !?
Can't fill teth at Mite"
81 don't want you to fill it-only
to pull itp yelled.
"Hey? Pull it, did you sa Hey?
Then walk up stairs"
walked up intoo little rune.
layd mi hat in corner, hung mi
overcote on the dorenob and awaited
futher ackshuns. The little fellow
plased me in big cher, which sank
backwards, with such sudenness,
that kicked big vace off the tabul
and busted it intoo pieses. The
dentist wuz awful mad.
"Hey?' he yelled, "Were you raz-
ed in the mountains? Hey? Are
you bline F.? HeyW
begged hiz pardun, and luked sad.
Then he opend a valise-ful NV little
pinchers, nedles, forks and munkey-
renshes-and TUX out pare of tive
zers. He pulled down mi chin and
pinched mi noze, al the time luking
intoo mi mouth. Then, he put the
twezers on mi tuth and commenced
ITO pull. Holy Mozes |! j thot al mi
he'd wuz cunning off. With mouth
wide open, and grunting and putting
Xix a fat man on Use, the little fellow
pulled and twisted until could stan
it no longer, and jumped up, knock
ing him over Whewl stuck mi
tung on the tuth. 1t wuz half way
out. AL mi body wuz trying to pull
it back again. i wuz thinking if i
would hav it pull out or not, when
"Hey ~ exclaimed the wrothy
dentist, "what did you kick me for2
Hey? You idiot, get back intoo
that cherW
Their wuz murder in hiz ey az he
buttened strap acros the cher to
kepe me in, and seed big pair NV
pinchers. He TUX off his cote, rolled
up hiz sleeves. and GRABBED the pinch
chers with a grip that ment no gud
to that old iaw-tuth. The pulling
and the twisting began again. Mi
hevens how he pulled. The Who'll
iaw-boan seemed luse. Mi hart wuz
in mi throte. The lite began to get
dark, the rune swan round-then
came a crash and tainted ava.
The dede wuz done; the tuth wuz
out. 1t wuz about hour be-
for recovered consciousness. The