The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05
ABOUT THE TEETH
 THAT ARE GONE Man Who Finds Them An h.
 tereSting Subject HIS PECULIAR HOBBY Likes to Get Others to Tell Their Ex- periences in the Dentists Chair.
 Always a Story In
 Lost Teeth.
From the New York sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Dye ever notice' said the old man seated on the bank of the river with a fishpole in his hands, "how ready fellow is to tell you about the awful time he had getting a tooth pulled. The mere sight of a dentists sign will start some of them going, while the appearance of a man holding his jaw never fails to move them to speech. You've probably heard something like this thousand times at least:
 l" Oh, Lord, but I've had an awful half hour in the dentists chair-two of 'em pulled! moans the sad eyed man with the swollen jaw.
 My sympathy old boy. I know what it is, replies the other fellow, looking about as sympathetic as a police station lieutenant arrainging a drunk. Then he always adds: Why I had two uppers on this side Ginger and part of fist thrust into the yawning cavity) and one lower on this side here pulled out year ago and I didn't take a thing, not a thing. Dentist said they were hardest teeth he ever puled-awful, a fright, and me without whiff of ether or anything of that sort. 1 certainly don't want to go through the experience again, though my nerve never
 Well, that's about the usual line of sympathy the fellow who comes from the dentists chair gets," the man on the river bank went on, but I've found that If you follow these missing teeth stories up. if you encourage the tellers, they are generally interesting.
 Tn fact I've got hobby for starting a man on the subject of his teeth and then letting him drift on over the experi- ences he's had in losing 'em. He doesn' need much encouragement. Give him half show and you'll get pretty full history of both sets, including filings.
 But it's peculiar thing" the thought ful fisherman continued, that a man who loses tooth even in the commonplace way of having it pulled with forceps remembers all the details connected with the loss for years afterwards. There s something about an aching tooth or the sensation that comes with the loss of a good tooth that leaves an indelible im- pression on the memory and magnineS all the incidents connected with it.
 'Ive noticed that men who have sus- tained really serious injuries can't, or at least don't give the history of these acci- dents after a lapse of years with the wealth of detail that always accompan- les an account of the pulling of tooth. Take my own case for instance q had a piece of bone knocked out of the top of my head by being thrown from a. bronco forty years ago. They thought I was going to die, but to save my life now l couldn't give you the details of that injury in the way I could the losing of these three teeth here. GA muddy fore finger to the front)
 T judge the stories of other folks mis- sing teeth good deal by my own. I think my experiences are fairly interest ing, and typical of the others.
 Take this un here in the lower jaw now; that was the first to go. l was a boy of 10 then. Our folks lived on a farm, and one of my chores in the morning was to feed the chickens.
 T noticed a lot of bumblebees buzzing around the henhouse, and one fine morn ing l discovered their nest under one of the henhouse window sills
 Now there dwelt in that henhouse a big plymouth rock rooster-a fine stately fellow with a flaming red comb. I confess that at first I had nothing in particular against the rooster, although his airs were so grand that naturally he ne<tled me sometimes. To see the way he bossed those hens around when I had to hustle through the routine of chores at the beck and call of the hired girl was enough to arouse any boys feelings.
 Anyway, as soon as I discovered the bumblebees nest 1 changed the place of feeding the hens and MT. Rooster to a spot right under the window sill. I would scatter the feed there, then stir up the bees with long pole and retire re- spectful distance.
 Out would come the bees buzZing angrily and of course that big red comb was the first danger sign they spotted. Apparently it needed no second thought for them to make up their minds that there could be no good in anything as red as that. The old rooster would be eating away when suddenly one of the