The Press., 1888-04-12
Issued Every Thursday Evening.
(For The Press.) FILLING THE CUSPIDADl.
MORE GEOGRAPHY. DITTO AGAIN.

What a bother teeth are, anyway. l hadn't fairly got shut of my baby set, and nice white lot of scalloped shovels in their place, before got sick, and well, if you'd a had to take the medicine did, you wouldn't wonder Black Merciful goodness look here you wouldn't mis- trust by the looks, that dig away at them with charcoal half an hour or so every morning, you'd you2
 Yes, sir ! ibey'd be blacker'n your boot, all over, in a little while, if didn't. And now, there's that black streak up next the gums, you see, that 1 can't get of, do my level best.
 I had to have a couple filled about year ago. It was when was visitin' down to Pomperoggv. I heard 'em telling how dangerous twas to let 'em go without, af- ter they got holes in 'em, m,-how they was liable to get broke off. I hunted round in my mouth and found two big holes, right close together-one in one tooth, and another in the next and I thought to myself, "Mother'd feel awful if should break 'em off 1; I don't believe its safe to wait till get home." Besides, I wanted to see how It would seem myself, I'd heard so much about it. Cousin Net said it hurt awful, but she was girl, you know, and wantel to show her.
  anything, but went in, and set the dentist to work at 'em, without lettin' any body know. But he did hurt like the Dickens. 1 crowed over Net, just the same, though, and pretended 1t didn't hurt blt after the job was doue. It took him just about an hour, I should think, and hauled out my pocketbook, as big as life, and asked how much was to pay.
 ''Two dollars" savs he.
 "ItCO dolLars 2" says l. and I could feel my eyes fairly stick out The dentist he looked kinder queer. 1.-Two dollars for an hours work That would be-two times twenty y-four-forty- eight dollars day" made up my mind, there and then, to be dentist when I am a man-but I've changed it since.
 The dentist kept lookin' queerer and queerer. stood there, with my pocket book in my hand, and all of a sudden saw the joke of it. I happened to think how, up home, when the neighbors do some little thing for you, and you ask em how much is to pay, they say, "A thous- and dollars l' or something like that, which means they don't ask any thing, and happened to think that was what he meant.
 Good for you r says I 1; "cheap enough at half the money l" and I jammed the purse into my pocket and scampered of, tpell mell, proud as you please, to think that dentist had taken such a shine to me. O, but you just ought to have seen Net laugh, when I begun braggin' about it. though. You'd thought she was just about goin' into fits, she acted that tickled If there is a provokin' and aggravatin thing in this world it's girl, when she's 6 mind to be.
 Aunt Linda, she laughed some, too She hadn't fairly got over bein' a girl her self, you see. But she's about as good at you find 'em, for she took her own little handbag and went down and paid the bill. She probably knew what it was tC get into 8 scrape and then not to have money enough left to get home with, ,-a. I shouldn't, If I'd forked over the cash.
 But that putty headed dentist-fact-l don't believe he kuew putty That filling got loose in less'n six months, if you'll be lieve me.
 We let it run along as it was a spell, but one day when mother came home from , Palmer, not long ago, she says, "I mud, . an appointment with the dentist for you , for next Tuesday at nine o'clock" Now, thinks l, "I'm in for it again, } and said:
 } "All right, Ditto" she says Gts quee = way she has of always agreein' with fel ler). "Then you may go up Tuesday and tell him I've concluded to let him takt
 out the whole lot, and put in a set ths won't ache"
 , "H'ml" thinks I. Sometimes I have t laugh at the cute way she has of gettin the best of you.
 We'll, I-guess-Id better have then , filled, mother. But I'd ruther be licked.
 oh II .,f
 get in the habit of changing my mind to, . often if were you."
 So it was settled. was goin' up in tn
 cars, but didn't like the thoughts of tha
 tempery railroad bridge any too well
 Our team was goiu' the other way tha
 day, so concluded I'd have to foot it.
 Don't be behind time, Ditto" say
 mother.
 "No'm. can huff it up there in twent
 minutes any day."
 7 But kit was too cunning for anything Il that morning, and it was rather later thai I meant it should be, when l left her t s her antics and started of with my littl u travelling bag in my hand fir mothe 2 felt kinder sorry for me after all, l guess = and she give me an. extra dollar to spend 4 and told me 1 might have the rest of tn ,, day for holiday and she give me tn lOlnoSC lunch 10 Cake alOuB lnab ever vol d eat, she dld That's the Kind of womal A my mother h
 6 I walked of kinder slow like, till go out of sight of the house, just to shoy n Bridget I shouldn't have to run ever n step of the way to get there Tn season. @ But it was pretty poor walkin' that morn n in, and it began to seem like was goot @ while gpttin' little ways. l would hay }, run, but there was houses all along, an, e you couldn't. I didn't want to show of s just like little ten-year- old boy, run
 min, you see.
 . But up there by that great, long, higl fence by the agricultural fair ground ther
 wasn't anybody in sight. Hooked behin,
 and before and all around, and couldn'
 see anybody, and then if didn't leg . there for a ways till, by Jiminosel
 heard team coming up, lickety split, be L. hind me. ...r a Running to catch the oars ?" said some ' body. Plenty of time."
 - "No, sir !; runnin' to catch the dentist,
 I said.
 ''I pity you," says he. eve had tn tooth-ache myself" and he cramped tn S wheel and let me in. didn't tell him T. v stopped too long to play with the kitte
 before started the reason was ruunir
 my legs off to get there. Twa'n't m = foplk ho had am wfYpI kookI