The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-15

An Encounter " Wits Between Boss and
Dentist Over the Giant.

Dentist Over the Giant.
Il sha'n't soon forget" said the old circus man,
a little Joke that the old man played, or tried to
play, on the dentist Our star attraction, the great
est Of all giants, had a tooth that needed filling
II bad needed II for a long time In fact: but like a
great many other people not as big, the giant
had let the tooth 90 unnl It began To trouble him
and then he wanted something dons 10 IL right
away, and wien we'd got the pain stopped he
wanted the tooth filled; he didn't want ~ lose IL
And here's where the old man. Joke ON the dentist
came In; he was always up 10 this sort Of tricks
Maybe you remember my telling you about
his going into a laundry once and getting the
price for doing up collars, any collars, as he put
II, and then taking In a stand-up collar that our
grea. eighteen foot giraffe used 10 wear when We
dressed him in dude costume? But that was easily
squared by free tickets TO the show, and by the
pleasure the laundry man found IN seeing the
giraffe walking around the ring wearing the
collar that he had done up But il was another
matter about the tooth. The old man goes " the
dentist and tells him he has an AGO uaintance
that wants a tooth filled, and asks how much
would II cost 10 All II with gold-a double tooth.
OF course the dentist can't tell without seeing
the tooth and the cavity; and the old man tells
him It's a big man. big tooth and big hole. II will
take a lot Of gold. You name the price, he says,
and III pay ~ and the dentist sets a figure that
will cover the cost Of fllipg as much hole as there
| could be in any tooth he ever saw, and gives the old
man a date, and at the day and hour the old man
takes the giant around
I've never told you the exact stature Of the
giant, for fear you wouldn't believe IL, but I've
tuld you various things at one time and another
about him. that would enable you 10 form some
idea about it, The tooth-well, II | should tell
YOU even the size Of that. you wouldn't believe me;
but when the dentist saw the gian, stop in front
81 the house he knew that II the giants tooth
corresponded with his general DIMENSIONS, and
that cavity should be- Of about an average size,
as compared with the tooth, he was up against IL
hard: and he knew he was, when he had got the
giant settled down where he could look into his
mouth. lie had contracted ~ OH n tooth with
| gold for $40 or SIS, or whhteverit was, something
| ike that, and here was a hole that would take
in a hundred and fifty 10 two hundred dollars
worth OF metal, 10 say nothingof the labor.
But the dentist evinced no surprise, nor did
be seek 10 fly the track; on the contrary. he got
his traps around where he could get at EN- aud
I'VE struck the oNlce at II O'Clock; Me afternoon
show opened al A. ! o'clock the OLD man says;
while, and come back after the afternoon show.
" 'Oh no, you can't do that, says the dentist,
he'll have TO stay righ, here now Till the job is
How long will thai, take says the old man.
oh, I don't know, says the dentist I
should think 1t might take a day, or maybe a day
anu n mi
Well But I can have him sitting here with
the show going on. He's the biggest Thing In the
circus said the boss.
'You can take him away any time you want
TO-, said the dentist, but II you do, you don't want
to bring him back.
Why NOT says the old man. Didn't you
agree To Ill his tooth for so much
Yes. says the dentist, but the price ] named
10 you was for continuous work for q Job done at
cgt sitting. I'm ready to 80 night on with II now
and finish il NY; but II you take him away and
bring him back, 50 that | have 10 give him a num-
Der VI sittings, | should have 10 charge you my
regular price for such teeth
"'How much Il that says the old man,
" 'Tw hundred dollars Is my charge for teeth
Of that size. done in the regular way, SAYS the
dentist; and de- you know there was nothing for
the old man TO do but TO payit' lie simply cuuldn /
keep the giant away from the show, ~ 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 everything always,
and always got H. and then a giant with a tooth.
ache would have been an announcement person
10 have round. and he might not have been able
a. show; and as a matter Of fact 5000 was u fair
price for the job
so the long and short Of 1t was that the old
man agreed 10 pay II md he did. We stayed in
that town two days, and the giant put IN all his
spar time AZ the dentists; and when we struck
the road again the tooth was filed. There was ~
much gold in IL that for days the giant carried
his head kind y down on that side with The weight
Of IT, and IL was longer than that before the old
man gu, over Ie shock 81 his meeting with the
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