Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-05-06
HOW MIKE GOT EVEN.

1t was u beautiful morning. Not q
cloud In the June sky, not leaf stir.
ring on the old cottonwood tree by the
spring. The cattle, after restless
night, were lying in close order and
lazily chewing the oud or stretched out
broadside onithe thick green carpet.
On the edge of the bunch few calves
were frisking about with tails up. and
one impatient youDgster was butting
away at his browsing mother with u
vigorous suggestion that 1t was time to
rise and furnish forth the morning meal.
On an adjacent hill the horse wran.
gler, still draped to the heels In the vel
low slicker he had donned In the thun-
der shower Of the night. sat idly In the
saddle with hand on his horses hips,
looking away over the pea green range
Of early summer to where the noun
tain tops glowed in the rising sun.
The cooks fire of damp wood, kindled
directly under the tree, sent up thick
smoke which spread throughout the
branches. but collected above them, OK.
tending one straight. slender, lofty COL
umn into the blue. Seine blAelttards
were scolding about being smoked out
Of their leafy home, and ON every side
resounded the mellow notes Of the mead
owelArk. kf&#
Il was beautiful morning, but no
one in camp was happy, for every man .
clothes were wet, and Mike Tussler had
the toothache. Now. It is we'll knewn
that whsn the big back tooth OF o big
buck Irishniaif takes notion to ache IL
is wholly different proposition from
an ordinary case of NAL do dents.
"You don't know anything about 1t. /"
Mike declared. "This isn't Just tooth
aohe. 1t aches all over. Did you ever
$50 ons Of them fiery comets with
long, fOrked tail ON to bright headf
Well, this pain Is just like that. My
tooth's the redhot head Of the thing, and
the tails are going all through me- -
Mike lay down on his back, and the
cook looked In his mouth
did you eyer zee chestnut or acorn
with wormhole in it? That's the way
with your tooth. Just little bit Of q
hole right into it, It's terrible small
hole TO worry about"
Nothing small about the feel Of it,"
said Tussler, and he asked. for day oil
TO 90 aud get 1t "yanksd. 2
He could not be spared that day, but
the next morning went away to the
nearest town. 1t was always days
ride, and. al Is the preverse way OF ach-
ing teeth, his began to feel much better
when he came in sight of the village
He felt 30 much relieved by the time he
had ridden down the one street, with its
square front, ono story wooden build
ings, that when no was finally seated In
the dentists chair he didn't want to
have the tooth pulled
81 was just coming along the street,
he said to the dentist, land / saw your
brand on ths door So come In to ask
you to look in my mouth and tell me
how old be-"
"Old enough to take better care OF
your teeth" he announced, after look
ing them over.
Have got to have the lasso on that
back onef" asked Tusslsr.
"You have got to have 1t filled at
once.
"What'l 1t COST" asked the cautious
Irishman.
Three dollars" said the dentist. ~
use only the best materials and have
but one price.
"Well," said Mike, at don't hurt
any now. guess l won't let the job
today"
"That's robbery" he assured him.
self, AZ he went away TO copper the ace
for five and lose it. 1.-THE cook said 1t
was an awful small hole"
The next morning. however. his tooth
having meanwhile resumed business he
was waiting at the door when the den
"You don't get up 10 early az We do
on the range by about four hours, /" said
he. 81 been standing here all night 1
want me tooth filled full
So Mike had the work done and paid
30 cents extra for Gaping the nerve
"And the whole thing didn't take him
an hour, " he reported when he returned
10 camp. 1--WE been robbed. "
Mike clings to an opinion with proper
tenaoity and the conviction that Ill,
dentist had "beat him out of good $2''
laid debt and duty upon him which
he had no idea Of Sinking.
what you going TO do about it?" the
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