CANVASSERS, BEWARE!

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3766, 10 August 1883, Page 4

CANVASSERS, BEWARE!

An advertisement-canvasser who was rather now to the business went into a Melbourne dentist's the other day. Being a wily canvasser he thought (o interest Lin expected customer before introducing his business. He was shown into the consult-ing-room, and presently the dentist entered. ■"Good morning, nir. Toothache is very prevalent just now, if- it not V «' It is/ Kiid the canvasser, intending to

get the dentist interested. " I have a very bad touch of it myself." "Indeed," said the dentist. "Will .you allow me to look at it ? Sit down on this chair. Which tooth is it ?" The canvasser thought he might as well humor the dentist's professional instincts, so ho said the first tooth which the dentist touched was the ono. The canvasser did not notice the dentist's hand stealing round behind his back. Presently one of the dentist's hands was on the canvasser's head, the dentist's knee upon hi.- chest, and before the astonished seeker after advertisements could proiest, the forceps was at work, and the perfectly sound tooth flashed white in the air. '' What the devil do you mean r" yelled the canvasser when he got free. "Five shillings," murmured the dentist, "and a very neat operation it was." "Furies!" cried the canvasser, dancing round the room. " I didn't come here to have a tooth extracted. I came to extract an advertisement from you." "All! I never advertise," said the dentist, somewhat disgustedly. The canvasser seized his tooth, put on his hat and fled. Henceforward he will not take the trouble toconciliate a dentist before canvassing him. He wants all the teeth he has left.