Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-06
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one of the King OF DAhomey's Female
Warriors Proves an Ugly Patient.

one OF the King OF Dahomcy's Female
Warriors Proves an Ugly Patient.
It was late one night during the mir
when Dr. Noageris residence bell was rung.
The visitor was a messenger from Man
agcr Penny Of the Dahomey village, ask
ing the physician to come ut 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
incloscd In month that opened like eel
lar door. To make sure which was the
Offending tooth DR.. Yeagcr began prylng
around with his little stec Instrument 50
familiar TO all who have visited the cham
Der OF horrors known VA dentists parlors.
lie accidentally touched ~. nerve Of the
decayed and aching molar, and the anna.
2on let loose n yell that drew 20 her side
every member OF the village
IL was an excited and wildly demonstra-
tive crowd that danced about the wom-
ans bedside, DR., Neager coolly contin,
ucd his work, however, and finally, before
the woman could prevent him, he had
sneaked from his pocket pair OF shining
forceps and hooked ON 70 the pain produc-
ing worry. Sari was not astonished, but
she was hurt. As the steel Instrument
went crashing Into the gum surrounding
the aching tooth the hrawny woman set
up howl that set every ono OF her sisters
aud the black men wild with excitement.
The louder the amazon yelled the harder
DR. Neager pulled. She struck wildly NJ
the man at the other end Of .he foreeps,
but the Doctors lodging powers arc as
acute as they were tho day lao left the col
lege football team
She finally loaped from the cot on which
she recliued, and still the doctor pulled at
the moar San struck yiciously 1t her
torturer, but here the doctor showed great
strategy by keeping the woman's head ~
far in advance OF her body that the blows
fell short
Around and around the village went tho
doctor and the patient. Tho former tuPged
aud kept cool The woman mada the night
hideous with her cries and grew augder
every moment. Sull the molRr held les
own, The men IN hcvlllAge danced about
tho struggling doctor and amazon and
expressed their delight at the spectacle in
wild dances and peculiar cries
The end came at Inst and in most nm.
expected manner. Some of the villagers,
perceiving that the Doctors strength was
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he demonstrated by holding ON as long as
he had decided to take tho matter in
hand, separate the man OF medicine from
the insanely angry woman and at the Same
timc protect the former from injury,
Three or four men seized the woman, and
two ama2ons seized the doctor The two
parties pulled in opposite directions, and
suddenly the bond that united the doctor
and she OF the aching molar wps broken
At the same Instant tho woman was
thrown over the heads Of the attacking
party Mt her rear, and tho doctorwn suil-
ing over tho shoulders OF those who had
seized him
a moment later Dr. NcaRer was seen ait
ting on the ground holding aloft the for
ccps, from which projected the offending
piece Of ivory that once adorned the mouth
Of the troubled amazon Chicago Herald,