THE CORN DENTIST AND PLUMBER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3747, 19 July 1883, Page 4

THE CORN DENTIST AND PLUMBER.

One of those mistakes that are liable to occur in the best regulated families, made quite a laugh iv a AVest side residence a fcAV 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 irpand remove it, but she aviis afraid it Avould hurt, and she was nervous about having a horrid man touch her bare foot, and sho suffered along until Tuesday, Avhen, in a moment of agony, she told the old man to send up his corn dentist as quick as he had a mind to. Ho Avunt down to his office and ordered the corn man to go up. He had already ordered a plumber to go to the house and mend some gas fixtures that had sprung a leak, and the plumber got there first. The lady gave orders that if a man called with some corn tools, to send him to her room. The plumber rang the bell, and on being asked Avhere the work aviis to be done, the girl told him to go up to the lady's room, and tho man Avent up. He had a roll of cloth with tools in it, and as he put it down on the floor to unroll the tools, tho huh' 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 pincers, and two files and a lot of iron things that looked big enough to remove to corns from an elephant. The man avus sorting out the tools, and didn't notice tho AVoman's fright until she asked : "Is this going to hurt much ': If it is I had rather suffer the annoyance." "O, uo," said tho man, looking up at the gas bracket by the Avindow, Avhich had a rag Avound around the joint which leaked. " I can screw the cap on to the joint, so the gas cannot escape," and seeing the Avoman's bare foot so near him he opened his eyes in wonder, and blushed liken girl. She looked at him, and wondered Avhy he did not go to Avork on her foot. He aviis a great big muscular follow, and ho looked as little like the Avay .she supposed a corn doctor Avould look as possible. Taking up a big pair of pincers, and taking a match to light a small caudle, Avhich ho carried to test leaky gas fixtures, lie said: " Where docs it seem to be the Avorst r" "There," said the little woman, bending over aud placing her finger on the next to the littlo toe. " Right between those two toes. It is a soft com, and sometimes it makes mo wild. Now, do be careful, won't your" as the man dropped his pincers and stood back as though he had been struck by lighining. Then lie laughed out loud and said : " Sliidiime, I have been in the plumbing business twenty-two years, but this is the first time I was ever called upon to repair a broken joint on a woman's too. Excuse nic," and lie began to roll up his tools. "Heavens and earth !" said the woman, as she tried to put on her stocking Avrong end first, and blushing so sho looked as pretty as though she never had a corn, " I thought you avus a corn doctor. There is a gas fixture you arc to putty up," and shu went out of the room in her stocking feet to blow up the giil for sending a plumber to plumb a corn. The corn dor-tor arrived soon and did his work, and when ho and the plumber went out together they Avcre having a great laugh us they turned the corner. AVhen sho tells her husband to send up a man to do any AVork around the house now, she stipulates that ho shall not send a plumber, Avhatever he does. —Peck's Sun.