The Progress., 1894-01-27
BUT THE TOOTH CAME OUT.
One of the King of Dsbomey's Female

Ohe oi the htng OF DahOmey's temaie
Warriors Proves an U;ly Patient.
It was late one night during the fair
when DR.. Nrager's residence bell was ruug.
The visitor was Il 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 toothacEc The doctor Went more for
the sake oi the adventure than for the fee.
lie WAS shown to the bedside Of the wom-
an and proceeded to examine the big teeth
iuclOsed in a mouth that opened like Il cell
lar door. To make sure which was the
offending tooth DR.. Neagcr began prying
around with his little steel instrument SO
familiar TO all who have visited the cham
ber Of horrors known as dentists parlors.
He accidentally touched the nerve of the
decayed and aching mOlar and the anna
zon let loose a yell that drew to her side
every member of the village.
1t was an excited and wildly dpmonstra-
tive crowd that danced about Z D WON
ans bedside. DR.. Yeager cUOlly cOntin-
ned his work, however, and finally, before
the woman could prevent him, he had
sneaked from his pocket pair of shining
forceps and hooked on to the pain produc-
ing worry Sari was not astoniShcd- but
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 pulled She struck wildly ut
the man ut the other end of the fOrcCps,
but the doctors dodging powers are as
acute as they were tho day he left the col
lege football team.
She finally lcaped from the cot on which
/ she reclned, and still the doctor pulled mt
. the molar. Sari struck viciOusly at her
torturer, but here the doctor showed great
/ strategy by keeping the woman's head 50
/ far in advance of her body that the blows
/ fell short
Around and around the village went the
! doctor aud 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 its
! own. The men in the village danced about
the struggling doctor and amazon and
expressed their delight ut the spectacle II
wild dances and peculiar cries.
The end came at last and in a most un
expected manner. Seine of the villagers
perceiving that the dostor's strength was
almost exhausted and admiring the pluck
he demonstrated by holding Oh as long rs
he had decided to take the matter IL
hand, separate the man of medicine iron
the insancly angry woman and at the Sam'
time protect the former from injury
| Three OF four men seized the woman, ant
two amazons seized the doctor. The TIVE
parties pulled in opposite directions, an'
suddenly the bond that united the docto
and she of the aching molar was broken
At the same instant the woman wa
thrown over the heads of the attackin:
party at her rear, and the doctor went sail
ing over the shoulders OF those who hat
seized him.
4 momcntlater Or. Yeager was seen sit
ting on the ground holding aloft the for
ceps, from which projected the Offending
piece of ivory that once adored the mOut
of the troubled amazOn.-Chicago Herald