The Dentist was Done
The dentist was torturing his victim in the usual double fashion. Tee story he was telling at that moment was on hlmselr. •' When I was young in the profession," paid he, "I was working: in « oountry plan" for n few wcks to, help a friend. One day a farmci ca.jne In—a big, muscular chap, full-blooded—one of the sort whose teeth come like the roots of oak trees. 11 As he sat in the chair he aimed. ' Will it hurt ?' "Feeling in rawer a jocuiar mood, I answered, ' Well. Sf it doesn't it sha'n't cost you anything.' Then 1 fell to work. " Tin: tooth came even harder than \ expected, so as the man pot up from the chair and pulled hlmnelf together—he had no*, uttered a & -<d—l said •Well, did it hurt?' « " ' Not a bit," answereo .ne countryman, and strode out of the office, leaving me minus a fee, completely nonplussed, and the laughing-stock of my friend and the two or three patrons who sat about the office. " I have never tnea to be funny pw feeslonally since," said be meditatively.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1146, 12 February 1903, Page 3
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184The Dentist was Done Mataura Ensign, Issue 1146, 12 February 1903, Page 3
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