Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-17
A TUG OF WAR.
In Which Many Were Engaged, With
HanpY Results.

In Which Many Were Engaged, With
Happy Results.
1t was late one night during the fair
when DR.. Yeager's residence bell was
rung. The visitor was a messenger from
Manager Penny of the Dahomey village,
asking the physician to come at once to
the village and attend a patient suffering
from the toothache. The doctor went
more for the sake of the adventure than
for the fee. He was shown to the bed
side of the woman and proceeded to ex-
anime the big teeth inclosed in a mouth
that opened like cellar 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 chamber of horrors
known as dentists parlor. He acct
dentally touched the nerve of the aching
molar, and the amazon let loose a yell
that drew to her side every member of
the village.
1t was an excited and wildly demon
strative crowd that danced about the
woman's bedside. DR.. Yeager coolly
continued his work, however, and final
ly before the woman could prevent him
he had sneaked from his pocket pair of
shining forceps and hooked on to the
pain producing worry. Sari was not as
tonished, 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 DIR. Yea
ger pulled. She struck wildly at the
man at the other end of the fOrceps, but
the doctors lodging powers are as acute
as they were tho day he left the college
football team.
She finally leaped from the cot on
which she rpclined, and still the doctor
pulled at the mOlar. Sari struck vicious
ly at her torturer, but here the doctor
showed great strategy by keeping the
womans head SO far i'll 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 mom?nt. Still the molar held its
own. The men III the village danced
about the struggling doctor and amazon
and expressed their delight at the spec
tacle in wild dances and peculiar cries.
The end came at last and in most
unexpected manner. Some of the villa
gers, peceiving 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 mat
ter in hand, separate the man of medi-
cine 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 oppo-
site 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 sailing over the
shoulders of those who had seized him.
A moment later DR.. Yeager was seen
sitting on the ground holding aloft the
forceps, from which projected the Of
Tending ivory that once adorned the
mouth of the troubled amazon.-Chica-
go Herald.