The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-07-02


this wise
Badger took severe cold one day.
and that night he woke up In q severe
coughing 1t and with . sense OF sui.
location In sudden fear he clapped
his hand TO his face; horror OF hors
rors! He found hole like the mouth
OF q cellar drain, but his uppers were
missing.
Badger made o frantic clutch Mt his
throat and no was mono too soon.
The missing molars we're already hall
way down his gullet and he could
easily feel them from tho outside II
was no wonder he was choking "a
death. Badger seized the protrudinQ
bunch and hung on 70 II with death
grip
Help! help!" he yelled a. we'll az
he could giving Mrs Badger kick
that sent her flying out OF bed and
into the middle OF the chamber floor.
I've swallowed my uppers and they
are choking me TO death"
Mira Badger was scared rs badly as
her husband, II not worse She sue
ceeded In getting light at last and
rushed 10 the rescue OF her en-
dangered mate
Get EN- out for heavens sakel"
he cried as she approached his bed
side with candle. Get 'em out
quick. or Bob Badger IL gone Cos
ling!"
Apparently the teeth were still
stuck In Badgers throat and the case
was Q desperate one. Mrs Badger
clutched the protruding plate and
gave q yank TINT came near pulling
her husbands neck out by the roots
.Ow! Ow! you Internal IDIOT" he
howled. Are you trying to break
my head of in order to get them
outp'
They must be got out In some way
or you are dead man." she wall ed
'Oh dear! What shall do?"
- See II you can't squeeze 'em up. !"
gasped Badger
Mrs b. grabbed him around the
windpipe just below the bunch and
squeezed till Badger was as black in
the face as a badly tanned niger She
did not get the teeth. but she did get
a clip in the ear that loosened her
grip and made her start back in aston
ishmcnt
do you mean to choke me to
death. you laundering foolp" raved
the injured Badger. Il might just as
well let the uppers strangle me as to
have you garrote me in that manner
Look down my throat and see II you
can see EN-"
Mrs. Badger did as she was hidden.
but she was nerved up to such a
degree that she hardly knew what she
was about. She could not see down
her husbands swallow very far on ac-
count OF the imperfect light and in
her excitement and eagerness to
illuminate the yawning chasm she
showed the candle-name down his
throat for more than four inches
Badgers jaws closed upon the blaz-
ing candle with snap like those OF a
fox trap. but not until his moustache
had taken fire and scorched his upper
lip and the end Of his nose to blister.
The yell that he let out tore the black
robe of night to tatters and smote his
wife's tympanums like bass-drum-
mer pounding the calfskin on the
glorious fourth.
you driveling idiotr' he shrieked
MS he spit out the candle end. while
the blaze in his moustache died out
for lack OF fuel Are you trying to
poke them down my neck with a
tallow dip or burn them up where
they areP Don't act SO much like q
chucllle- headed chump. Stop trying
to murder me and capture those. up
pers in some way or else you will
have to prepare your widows weeds
in the morning."
Lot me cut them out my dear"
said Mrs. Badger as she approached
with another candle and carving
knife that looked like the blade of O
guillotinc.
"Are you clean crazyp" howled
Badger in terror. as he hurled pill
low at his wife's head. drop that
sabre and listen to reason. l won
have my throat cut II / have to lose
the whole six dollars that ! paid fol
those uppers. For PHYS sake think
OF something else. and be quick?'
Don't you suppose could fist
them up with hook and line II YOU
opened your mouth a little wider?
she asked.
NO you couldn't you confoundet
simpleton you'll" roared Mr.. Badger n
loud as he could for the grip he still
kept upon his windpipe, Il don't wan
my stomach hauled up on pickere
hook. now / can tell you"
Maybe might get hold OF then
with the tonRs II they are not too ia
down. she cried. struck with anothe
brilliant idea
.'Oh. you double-dyed dunce!'
shrieked Badger '.For the love O
heaven. hold your tongue and sen
| for DOCTOR"
In comparatively short time tn
old family physician stood by Badger
bedside. and the whole matter wa
explained TO him. The teeth wer
still easily felt for Badger had he'll
them so firmly that they had nc
moved an atom since he first awoke
The doctor took hold and squeeze
and twisted on those obstinate upper
for some, time but they still refuse
to start in either direction. Badge
groaned.
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