The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-10
AN ACHING TOOTH.
u Has No Place In Cupid's Book

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Roses mother had been east for the
past six months, and had never seen
George. But Rose herself had prom
Used, and the sky looked regular rob
ms egg blue,
Mother comes home today" said
Rose, and you must call around and
see her this first afternoon Now there
are two things that mother will not
stand. One is inattentiveness, she says
that young men are always inatten.
tive to older women, and the other
is profanity. or course, know that
you'll be nice to mother, and ! cant
even imagine you swearing, bat you
must make a special effort for my
sake to be particularly agreeable and
not let even the slightest expletiye
escape you. And 0, George, mother
Is SO fond of boat riding; Sol ought
10 take her for IA little row on the
river this afternoon. 1t would please
her SO"
When Roses mother arrived she did
not impress George at all as for
midable person, and George invited
her to go rowing with alacrty. They
secured boat at the public landing
and pushed off into mid-stream. The
sun was shining mildly through light
clouds, the birds sang and everything
was pleasant except George. For as
he took the first stroke with the oars
he felt a curious throb throb, throb in
the middle OF one of his lower back
teeth
II was mild at first, but each second
it struck harder and grew more pain
fnl Thump thump, thump, 1t passed
the elaw-hammer stage for the AK,
and left the AK for an imitation OF a
blacksmith's forge, and in Two min
utes 1t was pretending to be six can.
vas men driving in d stake for cir
Gus tent.
Thump, thump. thunp! It wasn't
a toothaehe it was a ooth-quake
Don't YOU love rowing" asked
Roses mother.
What's that? mean--I beg your
pardon.
Don't you enjoy rowing? 1t has al
ways seemed to me such pleasant
form of exercise"
Rowing? Yes, it is"
Ordinarily George excelled In small
talk, but to-day the tooth occupied his
innermost thoughts.
Aren't the birds singing sweetly
this afternoon"
No answer.
Il said aren't the birds singing
sweetly this afternoon
Sure sure-very sweetly-very
sweetly--very nice indeed ~ every
thing nice"
And the scenery along the river
shore Don't you admire those old
trunks with the moss draped SO grace
fully about them?"
Throb - throb - throb went on
the tooth. 1t was a triple action steam
hammer now sending off sparks that
eut burrows along Georges checks
1t was swinging ahead in splendid
form, pausing for nothing and slow
ming pugilist in the last round of a
prize fight: ing-bing-blng-
then some.
Il was speaking to you Mr., Brown
Silence
Il was speaking to YOU
'All right. speak again. Spit it out
and have it over
Roses mother seemed to grow Wis
bly, in her Indignation. She attempt
ID to stand up in the boat. Mr..
Grown you will put me ashore at
,nce. At once, do you understand?
II | had any idea You were this sort
If u person. should never have let
ny daughter encourage you
George made = few fierce attempts
At explanation. but the pain BY this
time had Increased to such point
hat his only thought was To get to
! dentist. Rose Lad dropped oat of
sight altogether Just as his onceto-be
uother-in-law stepped out Of the boat
she gave 1t slight shove with her
DOT. II oapsized, landing George in
shallow water. and with whole
mouthful OF the cold stuff against the
aching tooth George would not have
cared now had he been standing at
lie court of heaYen. He broke into
shower Of laagul.c that reminded
e OF d~unken sailor at his best
o. ,yea beautiful aal convincing and
about tina one tooth. George went
"a thlodgh the last blankdash until
lie "a exhausted himself. and Roses
iut,a. two blocks away, was still
cunning.
Then George went to the nearest
dentist. He knew his lifes happiness
was wrecked. but he didn't give a
lash if that italics tooth was only ont
that triple blanked. cast iron blight
adj piece OF pestilence on the lower
jaw. He got up to the dentists door
way. he climbed the stair. and then.
Just as he was about to go in the tooth
stopped aching. Stopped. absolutely
Stopped short. dead in its tracks. He
couldn't even remember whether II
was the one next to the eyetooth OF
the one just beyond that And then
as he went back out on the street
with his clothes dripping and muddy.
he saw that young dude Smithely TAX
ing Rose into an ice cream parlor.-
Milwaukee Journal