St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-06-16
TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS NAN.

TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS NAN.
An Eneesnter 81 wits Detween Bsss
ana Dentist Over the Giant
81 the skew.
Il sha'n't soon forget" said the old
circus man. - little joke that the old
man played. or tried to play. on the
Dentist" relates the New York Sun.
"Our star attraction, the greatest of all
giants, had a tooth that needed filing.
It had needed it for long time in fact;
but like great many other people
not as big. the giant had let the tooth
60 until it began to trouble him; and
then he wanted something done to it
right away, and when we'd got the
pain stopped he wanted the tooth
filed; he didn't want to lose it. And
here's where the old mans joke ON the
dentist came in; he was always up
to this sort Of tricks.
Maybe you'll remember my telling
you about his going into a laundry
once and getting the price for doing
up collars, any collars. rs he put it.
and then taking in . stand-up collar
that our great 1s-foot giraffe used to
wear when we dressed him in dude
costume? But that was easily squared
by free tickets to the show, and by
the pleasure the laundryman found in
seeing the giraffe walking around the
ring wearing the collar that he had
done up. But it was another matter
about the tooth. The old man goes to
the dentist and tells him he has an ac-
quaintance that wants tooth filed
and asks how much it would cost to fill
it with gold-a double tooth. OF
course the dentist can't telF without
seeing the tooth and the cavity; and
the old man tells him it's . big man,
big tooth and Zig hole; it will take
lot of gold. You name the price, he
says, and I'll pay it, and the dentist
sets a figure that will cover the cost
of filing as much hole as there could
be in any tooth he ever saw, and gives
the old man = date, and at the day and
hour the old man takes the giant
around.
"Tve never told you the exact stat
ure Of the giant, for fear you wouldn't
believe it, but I've told you various
things, one time and another about
him, that would enable you to form
some idea about it. The tooth-weH,
II should tell you even the size Of that,
you wouldn't believe me; but when
the dentist saw the giant stop in front
of the house he knew that II the giants
tooth corresponded with. his general
dimensions, and that cavity should be
Of about an average size. Is compared
with the tooth. he was up against it
hard; and he knew he was, when he.
had got the giant settled down where
he could look into his mouth. He had
contracted to fill = tooth with gold for
ten or fifteen dollars, or whatever it
was, something like that, and there
was a hole that would take in $50 to
$500 worth of metal, to say nothing Of
the labor.
@But the dentist evinced NO surprise.
nor did he seek to fy the track; on
the contrary, he got his traps around
where he could get 1t 'em and began
work.
1--WE struck the Office Mt II o'clock;
the afternoon show opened at two. At
one o'clock the old man says:
"Well, guess wen have to shut of
now for awhile. and come back after
the afternoon show
"'Oh, no, you can't do that saysthe
dentist, he'll have to stay right here
now till the job is finished
How long will that takeg says the
old man.
..Oh, don't know. says the dentist.
L should think it might take day, or
maybe q day and half
"Well! But / can't have him sit
ting here with the show going on. He's
the biggest thing in the circus!' said
the boss.
"sYou can take him away any tin,e
You want to- said the dentist, but II
you do. you don't want to bring him
back
".Why notr says the old ssman.
Didn't you agree to I'LL his testh for
so mpch%
"'Yes.' says the dentist, but the
price / named to you was for continu-
Gus work; for . job done at one sit
ting. I'm ready to go right on with
it. now and finish it up; but if yon
take him away and bring him back.
SO that have to give him number of
sittings, / shall have to charge you my
regular price for such teeth
How much is that? says the old
man.
"sTwo hundred dollars is my charge
for teeth of that size, done in the reg
ular way says the dentist; and do you
know there was nothing for the old
man to do but to pay it? He simply
couldn't keep the giant away from the
show, as he was much the biggest card
the outfit had; and he couldn't slight
the giant; the giant knew his own
value and insisted on the best of every
thing always, and always got it: and
then giant with toothache would
have been an inconvenient person to
have round, and he might not have
been able to show; and as a matter
Of fact $500 was fair price for the
job.
$50 the long and short of it was that
the old man agreed to pay it. and he
did. We stayed in that town two days.
and the giant put in all his spare time
at the dentists; and when we struck
the road again the tooth was filled.
There was so much gold in it that for
days the giant carried his head kind
o. down on that side with the weight
Of it; and 1t was longer than that be-
,fore the old man got over the shock OF
his meeting with the dentist.
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