The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-12
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BUT THE TOOTH CAME OUT.

One of the King of Dahomey's Female
Warriors Proves an Ugly Patient.
It was late one night during the fair
when DR.. Yeager's residence bell was rung.
The visitor was messenger from Man
ager Penny OF the Dahomey village, ask
ing the physician to come at once to the
village and attend patient suffering from
the toothache The doctor went more for
the sake Of the adventure than for the fee.
He was shown to the bedside Of the wom-
an and proceeded to examine the big teeth
inclosed in a mouth that opened like eel
lar door. To make sure which was the
offending tooth DR.. Yeager began prying
around with his little steel instrument SO
familiar to all who have visited the cham
Der of horrors known as dentists parlors.
He accidentally touched the nerve of the
decayed and aching molar, and the anna
xon let loose yell that drew to her sida
every member of the village.
It was an excited and wildly denonstra.
tive crowd that danced about the wom-
ans bedside DIR. Yeager coolly contin-
ued his work, however, and finally, before
the woman could prevent him, he had
meaked from his pocket pair of shining
forceps and hooked on to the pain produc-
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she was hurt. As the steel instrument
went crashing into the gum surrounding
the aching tooth the brawny woman set
up howl that set every one of her sisters
and the black men wild with excitement.
The louder the amazon yelled the harder
DR.. Yeager pNIled. She struck wildly at
the man at the other end of the forceps,
but the doctor's lodging powers are as
acute as they were the day he left the col
lege football team.
She finally leaped from the cot on which
she reclined, and still the doctor pulled at
the molar. Sali struck viciously at her
torturer, but here the doctor showed great
strategy by keeping the woman's head so
far in advance Of her body that the blows
fell short.
Around and around the village went the
doctor and the patient. The former tugged
and kept cool. The woman made the night
hideous with her cries and grew angrier
every moment. Still the molar held it's
own. The men in the village danced about
the struggling doctor and amazon and
expressed their delight at the spectacle in
wild dances and peculiar cries.
The end came at last and in most I'M
expected manner. Some Of the villagers,
perce1v1ng that the doctors strength was
almost exhausted and admiring the pluck
he demonstrated by holding on as long as
he had decided to take the matter in
hand, separate the man of medicine from
the insanely angry woman and at the same
time protect the former from injury.
Three or four men seized the woman, and
two amazons seized the doctor. The two
parties pulled In opposite directions, and
suddenly the bond that united the doctor
and she Of the aching molar was broken.
AT the same instant the woman was
thrown over the heads Of the attacking
party at her rear, and the doctor went sail
ing over the shoulders of those who had
seized him.
A moment later DR.. Yeager was seen sit
ting on the ground holding aloft the for
cops, from which projected the offending
piece of ivory that once adorned the mouth
of the troubled amazon Chicago Herald.