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Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 181, 4 August 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

TE ARO HOUSE, CUBA STREET.

ME. PERKINS AT THE DENTIST'S I think I must have caught a cold by injudiciously sleeping on the floor during the period the house was being rinsed out. I had so much room that I must have become careless in the night, and got to trifling with the draft from a door. As I am a little bald the eiiect was disastrous. Through the day I felt a little stiff about the shoulders, with a sensation between the eyes as if I had been trying to inhale some putty. I observed to Maria (Mrs. Perkins' name is Maria) that I had caught a bad cold, and would probably regret it in time. But she treated the matter lightly by remarking that I had " caught my granny." As that estimable lady has been dead thirteen years, the reference to my catching her, with such a start in her favour, was of course a joke. Not a joke to be laughed at, I don't mean, but one to carry around with you, to draw out once in a while to blow on — a sort of intellectual handkerchief. When I went to bed that night, I apprehended trouble. Along one jaw, the left one, occasionally capered a grumbling sensation. It kept me awake an hour or 376 Wincey Dresses, full lengths, 2s lid. so trying to determine whether that was all there was of it, or whether there was something to come after which would need my wakeful presence to contend against. Thus pondering I fell asleep, and forgot all about the trouble. I dont know how long I slept, but- 1 fell to dreaming that I had made a match of fifty dollars a side to fight a oross-cut saw in a steam mill, and was well to work on the job, when the saw got my head between its teeth. I thought this was a favourable time to wake up, and I did so. It immediately transpired that I might better have stayed where I was, and taken my chances with the saw. I found myself sitting straight up in bed with one hand spasmodically grasping m y j aw > and the other swaying to and fro without any apparently definite purpose. It was an awful pain. It shot around like a dog which had been cruelly camphened. It bored like lightning through the basement of my jaw, darted across the roof of my mouth, and then ran lengthwise of the teeth. If every flying pang had been a drunken plow chased by a DRESSES FOR EVERYBODY. 13 yards Japanese Silk, 4s lid 14 yards Japanese Silk, 9s 6d 14 yards Japanese Silk, 14s 6d 14 yard Japanese Silk, 18s 6d demon across a stump lot, I think the observer would understand my condition. I could no more get hold of the fearful agony that was cavorting around in me, than I could pick up a piece of wet soap when in a hurry. Suddenly it stopped. It went off all at once, giving me a parting kick that fairly made me howl. "What on earth is the matter with you V said a voice from one corner of the room. I looked out into the dark astonished. " Maria, is that you ?" said I. " What there is left of me," was the curt reply, followed by a fumbling about the mantel. Presently a light was struck and Mrs. Perkins appeared before me. She had on her short-stop clothes. Her hair stuck up in all directions. Her nose was very red, and her eyes were expanded to their fullest capacity. " Well, I declare, Cyrus Davidson, if this hasn't been a night of it % What in BLACK ALPACA, 5Jd per yard. the name of mercy is the matter with you 1 Are you gone clean crazy, or have you sat on a pin ? For one whole hour you bave been cavorting around on that bed, groaning like a dead man, and flopping your bony arms in all directions. I was literally knocked out of bed, and here I have been doubled up in a corner, the very life frightened out of me, and wondering whether you were going to set fire to the house, or bust out my brains with a hatchet. If you have got through with your contortions I'll come to bed, and try to get a wink of sleep." I had got through, there was no doubt of it, and felt, in the relief I experienced, that it would be a comparatively easy matter to forgive Mrs. Perkins the suspicions of her alarm; as for braining her with a hatchet, I never thought of it. We haven't got one. I thought I was rid of the teeth ache, FANCY DRESSES, Consisting of Satin ScroEs Satin Scrolls Trail Fancies Fancy Stripes All in Full Dress Lengths, Eeduced from 13s, 15s, 16s 6d, 255, to ; 5s lid, 7s 6d, 8s 9d, 10s 6d.

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