Year: 1869

Cure for the Toothache-A True
Story.


Beauty has charms. So it has, almost
equal to music. 1t may sooth the saw.
age breast. 1t did sooth, or charm a Ger
man music teacher one day last week.
He was charmed with the beauty, OF a
lady, bright as a star-lovely as those
who dwell beyond, or in the shining
orbs. He saw, and she conquered. He
saw her In the street, and followed her.
Other poodles have done the same. She
entered a store-so did he. Not because
he wanted to buy anything, but he
thought an opportunity might occur for
him to speak to her, or hear the music
of her speech.


o, what a voice!-more sweet than his
own fiddle; and it's tones vibrated to the
very bottom of his lager beer barrel
And her smile--it struck him to the
heart, for he thought she smiled upon
him. Perhaps she did. We smiled at
bigger fool in a circus the other night
She looked at silks-l,e tried to suit him
self with pair of gloves. Both were
hard to suit, and time sped. At length
she left, and took a stage for her home
up town. He took the same conveyance
without any definite place in view at
which he should pull! the strap. He
waited patiently for the lady to give the
first pull. She got out, and, entered
brown stone front. He noted the spot
and came back and looked up to the
cold walls and thought-yes, he thought
of the warm heart within, and the sweet
face that smiled-was it at or for him?


Hope told nattering tale" =
and he thought if he could only enter
that portal, he could win the CITADEL
But how? What excuse should he make
or who inquire for, when the door was
opened? Fortune came 10 his aid and
showed him a dentists sign.


"Ah true" said he, II have q decayed
TOOTH" and walked boldly up and rang
the bell. Fortune again favored him.
The lady herself opened the door. Had
she watched him from the window as
he watched the house, and, unwilling
to let him be seen by servant, flown
herself to the door. Perhaps We have
seen such things before.


"Is the doctor at home?"


NO; but come in-you can wait for
him."


"Oh yes, certainly, in your company
any length Of time-if he should not
come till night--or morning.


The lady led the way to the parlor.-
Both We're seated on the sofa, and time
went off on the wings of-love! Well,
he thought SO. He thought that every
woman that smiled on him was made to
love. Perhaps he offered his to her ac-
ceptance. She did not accept, but that
only served to make him stronger. So
flew time, till loud ring at the door
bell marked a period.


The lady ran to open the door, and
stopped for few hasty words with the
new conner, and then came in and said
"My husbaGd-the DOCTOR"


Her visitor wanted to see one Just as
much as the other. He would very
gladly have the the room to either, but
the two in one stood in the door. He
looked anxiously towards the fatal
charmer who had enticed him into a
snare, and she smiled, showed her beau
tiful teeLn, ana vanished. The teeth re
minded him of his own.


The doctor looked stern, and said
sternly: "did you wish to see me pro-
fessionally, SIR" OF course he did
What else could he say he was there for?
He thought of the decayed tooth, and
thought he would have that out to get
out himself. 1t was not exactly tooth
for tooth but it soon will be.


He took his seat, and the doctor APP
piled his nippers and-drew the wrong
tooth-a perfectly sound one, upon one
side of the other. Es


| Of course it was by miatake ca bloody
mistake-but easily remedied by pulling
another. That would be a tooth for a
tooth. The doctor would take no ex-
cuse, and applied the instrument again
aud dreW-another sound tooth. The
decayed one now stood alone. and the
doctor thought might perhaps get well;
he was tolerably sure that he had cured
the musical gentleman of his toothache,
and very kindly told him to pay him S.
and if his troublesome tooth should ever
plague him again, all he had to do was
to follow his wife home, and he would
pull all the teeth out of his head.
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