HIS VISIT TO THE DENTIST'S.
I went straight to the Dentist's (says the Danbury Newsman,) I had had teeth snatched out for me with a thread, and I was not afraid. I told the dentist my trouble. He knew all about it, and invited me to take a chair. I asked if it would hurt to have the tooth pulled. He said it wouldn't and I believed him. I laid back my head, and opened my mouth, and he reached iu with a murderouslooking instrument, and went prowling around in there. I didn't think it was easy to have a tooth pulled, and fell to regretting that I hadn't come down before and oftener, when he suddenly bore down on my jaw, and I fairly screeched with agony ; then he came right up, and I screamed again. When he went down I thought I was dead; but when he came up I knew better, and was sorry. He asked me if it hurt, but I didn't say anything, I was too proud to say it did, and too mad to say it didn't. But the next two days I waited around for his son, who was about my age, and if there ever was a boy who had reason to regret his father's vocation, it was that boy.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1182, 5 June 1874, Page 4
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218HIS VISIT TO THE DENTIST'S. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1182, 5 June 1874, Page 4
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