TOOTHACHE.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 91, 10 June 1882, Page 195

TOOTHACHE.

The dentist of P., an up country district, is a young man of very pi'epossessing appeai'ance, and withal a bachelor. He performs the art of extracting decayed dentals on modern scientific principles, with all the ease of a practised pickpocket relieving you of your pocket-handkerchief, and with the grace and politeness of an Adonis. Since his advent to P., there has been an alarming increase of toothache among the unmarried young ladies, and with some of them the complaint appears to be chronic. One of these unfortunate sufferers waited on him the other day to have a molar extracted. With the extraction of the tooth came floods of tears, which melted the dentist's susceptible heart. Taking out his handkerchief he wiped away the pearly drops, and was extremely kind and sympathetic. In describing the affair to her friends the lady remarked that he was such a dear kind man that it was almost a pleasure to have a tooth extracted by the delicate and sympathetic manipulation of Mr . A few hours later a lady of uncertain age with corkscrew ringlets and her face enswathed in flannel presented herself at the operating room. The dentist seated her on a puriri block on the verandah and proceeded to draw out the source of her pain. A liood of tears and a melodramatic faint rewarded his exertions, but in this instance he did not exhibit any of that tender sympathy and regard that had been lavished on the former sufferer. There is now a difference of opinion among the ladies of P. v as to the skill and manners of the local dentist.