PULLING A TOOTH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 22 June 1875, Page 3

PULLING A TOOTH.

Hap - Swap, a chocolate - coloured heathen Chinee, washerman, at No 91, Michigan avenue, a^oko the otlier night from his bright dream and uttered a cry which was heard across tho street. He is getting along in age, and the toothache had come skulking down upon him that soft sly.-way peculiar to nothing else. _He stuffed fflfe sheet into his rnbuth, prised around the tooth with a hairpin, and drew the clothes over his head and tried to. remember all the dogs aad rats he had ever eaten, but it was no go. The polar wave had worked itself under a double tooth, and Hap-Swap was seen dancing before the uncurtained windows, at midnight and doubling himself up: in the shape cf O's and S's and D's. All day ..Tuesday and Thursday he roainedjup andHown, groaning and sighing, andtlic shirts 1 of his customers hung against the battered walla neglected aud forgotten. ..Such .nights as Hap-Swap put in were enough Ito turn his hair gray. He sat by the redhot stove, got into bed, got out; walked around, but there was on rest for him. The next morning a grocer sdvi^ed him to go to a dentist and secure relief, and the Chinaman put on his hat and: followed a boy to the tooth-puller's. He was as bravn as a lion, and ho jumpeH into a I chair, leaned his head back, and cried: "Come along—pull 'em quick ! " 4' I'll have that out in .a York minute," replied the dentist, getting, his tools together. " Take a stlingi Take a stling ! " crieel the Chinaman, as he rose up and caught, sight of the tools. "We don't pull tfeeth with a siring in: this country/ was the reply. " You just hold still for a moment, and you'll be all right." Hap-Swap; fell back with a groan, shut,:his teeth hard,: and it took five minutes! of soft talk tomake him open his jaws. The dentist 'then inserted a lance to cut around the tooth : but at the first dig his patient slid over the arm of the chair tbthe floor, iSlioutiDg:—" Hap-Swap stabbed in the mouth-ooh ! ooh!" The dentist explained to him that. the. cut i/ing would .make ;a Hobth'pull easier/ but as he talked a" soft and beautiful smile stole over the Chinaman's face, and ;he : said: "Toothache 'alle.gone-—alle gone away !", He skipped ■around the office and bolted down stairs, but as booh as the r- cold r air struck it he uttered a yell and came -back on t the bound/ leaped' into the \chair, ancl eiclaimed :• " Git "him out-quick ! " Tile dentist went to put in the: forceps, but "John "grabbed them, sat up, and begged' that he might stand up and have them drawn. "If you want that t6othoutyou must stop fooling and lean back," replied the impatient doctor. Hap-Swap opened his mouth, but ; before the forceps could reach, the tooth he sat up again and called :—Take stling—put him right round—pull hard I"'" I can't* use astring. Gome—lean light back." M ap-§wap. leaned back, opened his mouth unm-'ahat would hardly have covered it; but.snapped : his jaws together the next instant, and begged:—" Git something—tie tip his eyes so ifcean't see it hurt! " The 1 dentist bh'ndfolded the man with a' towel, .got his mouth openi and the forceps at last clasped the tooth.. Hap-Swap began to move round, but with a sudden pulU the tooth was brought out on the gallop. ■«• W-o-o-s h-o-u-g h ! "howled thf> Chinaman as he danced, around, and as soon a? the towel "was removed ho grabbed the tooth and his hat, went dowtistairs with a whoop, and as he ran up the.avenue he ,;held tie molar up to everybody's-^aze; •and cried out:—-" Jqop I Who's afraid to have he tooth pulled !" - ' [