THE CORN DENTIST AND PLUMBER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1443, 30 July 1883, Page 2

THE CORN DENTIST AND PLUMBER.

One of those mistalcess that are liable to occur in the best regulated families, made quite a laugh in a West side residence a few days ago. The lady of the house had been grumbling about a corn on her foot for months, and her husband had tried in vain-to get her to consent to have a regularly ordained " corn dentist" come up and remove it, but she was afraid it would hurt, and she was nervous about having a horrid man touch her bare foot, and she suffered along until Tuesday, when, in.a moment of agony she told the old man to send up his corn dentist as quick as he had a mind to. He went down to his office and ordered the corn man to go up, He had already ordered a plumber to go to the house and mffccl some gas fixtures that had sprung leak, and the plumber got there first. The lady gave orders that if a man . called with some corn tools, to send him up to her room. The plumber rang the bell, and on being asked where thfe work was to be done, the girl told him to go up to the lady's room, and the man went up, He had a roll of cloth with tools in it, and as he put it down on the floor to unroll the tools, the lady took off her slipper and removed her stocking, and placed her foot on a hassock. She looked at the plumber's tools on the floor, and almost fainted. There was big pair of pinchers, and two files, and a lot of iron things that looked big enough to remove the corns', from an elephant. The man., was sorting out the tools, and didn't notice the woman's fright until she asked ; "Is this going to hurt much] If it is, I would rather suffer the annovancef ' • '

" Uh, no," said the man, looking' up at the gas bracket by the window, which had a rag wound around the joint which leaked, " I can screw the cap on to the joint, so the gas cannot escape, and seeing the woman's bare foot so near him he opened his eyes in' wonder and blushed like a girl. She looked at him and wondered why he did not go to work on her foot. He was a great big muscular fellow, and he looked as little like the way she supposed a corn doctor would look ; as possible. Taking up a big pair of pincers, and taking a match to light a small candle which he carried to test leaky gas fixtures, he sai—- " Where does it seem to be worst f "There," said the little woman, bending over and placing her finger on the next to the little toe. "Eight between those two toes. It is a soft corn, and sometimes'it makes me wild. Now do be careful, won't you ?" as the man dropped his pincers and stood back as though he had been struck by lightning. Then he laughed out loud, and said—

" Madam, 1 have been in the plumbing business twenty-two years, but this is ihe first time I was ever called upon to repair a joint on a woman's toe. Excuse me," and lie began to roll up his tools.

"Heavens and earth," said the woman, as she tried to put on her stocking wrong end first, and blushing so she looked as if she never had a corn, "I thought you were.a com doctor, There is a gas fixture you are to putty up," and she went out of the room to blow up the girl for sending a plumber to plumb a corn. The corn doctor arrived soon and did his work, and when lie and the plumber went out together they were having a great laugh as they were turning the corner. When she tells her husband to sent up a man to do any work around tho house now, she stipulates that he shall liot send a plumber, whatever he does. —Peck's Sun.