Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
the boys asked, "What are you going to
do about your dentist?''

the boys asked, "What are you going to
do about your dentist?"
wait" says Mike again.
When there is work to be done, a cow
camp is stirring at daybreak. Getting
out in the gray dawn one morning, it
was seen that regular tenderfoot outfit
with tents had Gnme in during the night
and pitched their camp near the cow
boys
Mike strolled over and polled his head
into several covered wagons, bringing
back the report that no one was awake
"What are they loaded with" was
asked
Fertilizer" said Mika
"Come off, they all cried; mot in
those dude wagons!''
"Give you my word" insisted Tuss-
Ter; mot thing i'll 'em but old bones'
About this time Mike became very
solicitous for the safety of his bed roll
"Handle it like eggs" he told the dri-
yer of the mess wagon. "It's loaded"
When the outfit got around to the
home ranch and there was at length
few days rest for horses and men, Tuss-
Ter said: "Boys, I've got to see my den
tist again. Come along to town."
They came along to the number of
eight, and leaving them at the Cayuse
saloon Mike went over and had an in
terview with the dentist
"You remember, ~ he said, "plugging
a tooth for me last spring?'
The dentist remembered very we'll
"Isn't it all right?'
Sure" said he, "and | got friend
who likes it so we'll that he wants me
to let the job of fixing one for him.
81 have but one price for filing"
said the dentist
"But this is a big back tooth that'll
take more metal to fill it than mine,"
insisted Mike.
"The size of the cavity has nothing
to do with it. Unless have to kill the
nerve the price is absolutely the same"
81 think the nerve is already dead in
his'n, ventured Mike. "When can he
Gomez
'Tell him to come tomorrow after
noon, said the dentist and added face
tiously, "and bring his tooth with
him."
"Yessir," said Mike
The boys killed time as best they
might until the appointed hour. Then,
with becoming gravity-Tussler lead
ing and the cook second-they filed into
the dentists office. There was scant
room for nine men, but they ranged
themselves against the wall, and Mike
said, with wave of the hand, "These
are all my friends, but" indicating the
cook, "this is my particular friend
that I spoke to you about
"And this" said the cook, stepping
forward and depositing ON the table
large parcel, sis my TOOTH
"Open it," said Tussler.
The dentist did so, revealing to his
astonished gaze tooth of Brobdingnag
ian size. Its length was Eot less than
ten inches, of corresponding breadth
and thickness. 1t had cavity equal to
- cubic inches
'That's the TOOTH" said Mike.
''This is one Oh me, boys" said the
dentist. "Come over to the Cayuse."
Fill the tooth first, suggested Tuss-
ler.
"Yes." said all the boys in chorus.
The dentist looked at the TOOTH He
looked at the nine impassive faces along
the wall. "Why, certainly" he said.
1t took all the alloy, amalgam, ce-
ment, concrete and gutta percha in the
laboratory, but it was done to the salts
faction of Mike and his friends, who as
sured the dentist of their future patron
age and filed out as solemnly as they
had come.
"How did you make the big hole in
it," asked one
'The blacksmith did it," replied
Tussler.
Professor March of Hale college has
long mourned the loss of magnificent
specimen of the mammoth s tooth-one
of three secured on his last fossil hunt
ing expedition to the bad lands 1t dis
appeared upon the return trip and has
never been accounted for.
Should these lines meet the profess
or's eyes, he is advised to seek his prop
erty in dentists window in certain
small town on the overland railway
q. B. Durham in Argonaut.