The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-12
How Mike Got Even.
BY G. B. DUNBAR.

NaS Deautl1ul morning. NOT
cloud in the June sky, not a leaf
stirring on the old cottonwood-tree by
the spring. The cattle, after restless
night, were lying in close order and
lazily chewing the cud, or stretched out
broadside on the thick green carpet.
On the edge of the bunch, a few calves
were frisking about with tails up, and
one inpatient youngster was butting
away at his browsing mother with a
vigorous suggestion that it was time to
rise and furnish forth the morning
meal. On an adjacent hill the horse
wrangler, still draped to the heels in
the yellow slicker he had donned in the
thunder-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
mountain-tops glowed in the rising
sun. The cooks fire of damp wood
kindled directly under the tree. sent up
a thick smoke which spread through
out the branches but collected above
them, extending one straight, slender,
lofty column into the blue. Some
blackbirds were scolding about being
smoked out of their leafy home, and
on every side resounded the mellow
notes of the meadow-lark.
1t was beautiful morning-but no
one in camp was happy. for every mans
clothes were wet, and Mike Tussler had
the toothache. Now, it is well-known
that when the big back tooth of big
buck Irishman takes a notion to ache,
1T is wholly different proposition from
an ordinary case of NAL de dents.
You don't know anything about it, y
Mike declared; ''this isn't just tooth
nche. 1t aches all over. Did you ever
see one of them fiery comets with a
long, forked tail onto bright head
Well, this pain is just like that. My
tooth's the red-hot 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 ever see chestnut or acorn
with a worm-hole in it? That's the way
with your tooth. Just a little bit of a
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 of
to go and get it "yanked."
He could not be spared that day, but
the next morning went away to the
nearest town. 1t was always days
ride; and, as is the preverse way of ach'
ing teeth, his began to feel much better
when he came in sight of the village
He felt so much relieved by the time he
had ridden down the one street, with
its square-front, one-story wooden
buildings, that when he 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, "and saw your
brand on the door. So come in to ash
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 tina
back one?" asked Tussler.
"You have got to have it filed a
once"
"What'll it cost?" asked the caution,
Irishman.
"Three dollars" said the dentist; %.
use only the best materials and hav,
but one price"
"Well," said Mike, "it don't hurt any
now; guess won't let the job to-day
That's robbery" he assured him
self, as he went away to copper the &c,
for five and lose it; "the cook said it wal
an awful small hole"
The next morning, however, his tootl
having meanwhile resumed business
he was waiting at the door when tn,
dentist came down.
"You don't get up SO early as we do OF
the range,by about four hours" said he
81 been standing here oil night. IVAN
me tooth filed full"
So Mike had the work done and psi'
atty cents extra for cspping the nerve