CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1903-10-22
HIS NARROW ESCAPE
NEcSo's LOVE OF ICE CREAM
MADE TROUBLE.
open>d His Jaws So Wide He Could
Not Get Them Shut-After Surgical
Operation He Says Never Again"

In the amphitheater of the Charity
hospital the other evening the wailing
of a negro boy could be heard. ''oh,
lordy. lordy, f | ever gifts my mouf
shet ergin / never is gwine ter open
it ergin. Oh doctor. doctor, please.
sir, git my mouf shet been tryin'
ter git hit shet n KANT. f yo' ken
shet hit fer me | amt nebber gwine
eat no mo- ice cream. Hits dat niger
oman whut has got me inter dis trub-
ble"
The negro's cries could be heard in
almost every part of the hospital. He
had been taken there by a friend AS
he entered the gate one of the stu
dents saw him with his mouth as wide
open as it was possible to open 1t.
The student followed the negro into
the amphitheater and found that the
boy had opened his mouth so wide
that his jaws had become dislocated.
The student backed him into corner
and with his thumbs covered with rub
ber ran them into the negro's mouth,
trying to get the jawbone back in
place. Every few moments the negro
would bite the thumb of the student
and the student would lnutter some
thing which would not look well in
print.
The negro was very much friShten
ed. His eyes looked as though they
were about to pop out of his head and
If he had walked through brier patch
his eyes would have been pulled out
by thorns.
The student understood the negro's
condition and worked with him for
some time. The first attempt to get
the jaws into place was not successful.
Inc student removed his thumbs and
shook his head. The negro thought
this meant that the student could do
nothing. He gave vent to a wall that
sounded like a lost soul and begged
the doctor to make another attempt.
All this time he was talking as though
his mouth was full of hot mush. His
mouth was so wide open that it was
almost possible to see the cream he.
had eaten
The student put the negro's head
against the wall and bore down on
it. There was a sound not unlike the
student removed his thumbs and the
negro looked at him and began to
work his jaws. The feeling of relief
that came over his face was indes-
cribable. The negro could not realize
it for few moments. and tnen, in
anecstasy of joy he shouted: Hits
shet, doctor! hits shet!"
The negro used his jaws for a few
moments and the student told him
to close 1t. While the student was pre-
pairing the bandaSe for his jaws the
negro told him how he got into such
a predicament
ME an er oman was eatin' erwhile
ergo some ice cream. Me an her was
'vidin' what we had betwixt us. She
tuck big spoon and filled hit full NV
cream an she axed me did / want
hit. / toll her to glib hit ter me, but I
didn't 'loY dat ] could take dat spoon
in my mouf. She said eff | would put
hit in my mouf | could hab II all, an
as | is powerful fond ub cream trow-
ed open my r1ouf an toll her to shove
hit in. De spoon was er heap bigger
den | fought hit was an when de
cream got inside an | tried ter shet
my mouf hit wouldn't close. Dare |
was. wild my mouf full ub cream an
couldn't swallow an couldn't spit hit
out. Hit kept gittin' Golfer an col'er.
en- | hung my head down and let hit
run out en- de groun'. Den | tried
ersin ter shet my mouf an couldn'. |
cummenced ter git sliecred, den. en-
| lowed | better go to horsepittal. f.
| hadenter got here wen | did dunno
whut woulder happened. | sho wus
skcered. en- fun dis time on | nebber
is gwine ter open my mouf wide. chen
+ sumboddy wants ter glib me er big
piece oh watermillion."
The student bGndagcd the negro's
jaw and took his name. The negro
said his name was Henry McClennon
and when he left the hospital he was
the happiest negro in New Orleans
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