The Sunday globe., 1901-05-12

the chair and let him examine the trouble.
some tooth, but she said no, she Just
wanted to know what he had to say
about II; maybe she would have it out
sometime when she could make up her
mind to do 1t If it didn't quit aching but
not now. She guessed It was only tired
from chewing so much gum. She was
going to give it rest and see If that
didn't stop its aching. She wanted to
know Of the doctor II he didn't think her
system was run down, and if he wouldn't I
tell her mother so, and induce her mother
to send her (''sweet sixteen'') to the sea
for the summer. The doctor promised
that he would see her mother about it,
and she left as airily as she had come,
which convinced the suffering reporter
that her toothache was all a sham and
was simulated to cover a deep laid scheme
of some kind to compass a trip to the sea-
side, upon which she had evidently set
her heart. The reporter, with one hand
on his aching jaw, could not believe that
such gay spirits ever went along with a
genuine tOothache.
The next victim was an unshaven man
who with steady nerve took his posi-.
tion in the chair, but Jumped two feet
AiEh 81 liOhAillN ldlNl anu IOdItu ike u
Comanche Indian when the doctor Gift
ed large molar with roots an inch
long from his jaw,
de gave place to man from the coun
try accompanied by his wife, or "his
woman, as he called her. "She's got a
rottin' tooth; the nerve is all bare, and
it's liberated and gives her sight of
neura gia, !" he said. The dentist smiled
at these impossible combinations and
said: Take a seat, please" "His
woman proceeded to unwind two bed
quilts from around her head and neck,
which act disclosed face that looked as
though it had been interviewed by a
swarm of hornets. "Her man" wanted
her to take something, "lafiing gas or
sich, but she said mo" she had the
heart disease, besides her lights and liver
were nearly gone with consumption.
She thought she could stand it if it didn't
break her jaw.
1t didn't break her jaw, as she pro.
ceeded to demonstrate after the tooth was
out by series of yells which tapered
into moan The old man, after the
operation, said that he had full set of
jaw teeth all around his mouth. as he
shifted a huge tobacco cud to one side
and exhibited the broad, fiat surface of
some large incisors. He had three sons
ITO hum and they had the same peculi.
arity. He reckoned none Of them could
be pulled because they had "six roots
which were clinched around the law"
The next man had been drinking 10
ease the pain of an aching tooth. and
wanted it out (hic) quick. lie took gas
and had it out in a jlfy. While under
the influence of the gas he said he dream.
ed that he was going round and round on
a roller coaster. Presently, while near
the last grand descent, he looked up, and
large graphing hook suspended from a
tree dropped into his mouth, lifted him
bodily from his seat, and left him dang
ling in mid-air
The next victim was son of the EN-
erald Isle. Good morning" said he
"Are yees the dentist that takes teeth
out without pain"
"lf 1t don't hurt you | won't charge
you cent, answered the doctor. He
took seat and the tooth was lifted. he
in the meantime writhing his body and
yelling CORY" He thanked the oper-
ator, and was leaving without having
paid his BILL when the doctor said
Didn't it hurt your
'Dlvil bit, answered Pat.
What made you holler, then?'
81 was afraid that yees was going to,
you know, and he slid down the stairs
without more ado.
The reporters tooth was extracted
without (much) pain, - and as he went
down the stairs he ran against a woman
who had been there about an hour and a
half nursing her jaw (and her courage)
against visit to the inside of the office
She had been there off and on for the
past three days she said, and had not
yet got her courage up to the proper pitch
to induce her to enter