His Visit to tjik Dentist's.—l went straight to the dentist's (says the J'Janbury Newsman.) I had had teeth snatched ont for me with a thread, and I was not afraid. I told the dentist the trouble. lie knew all about it, and invited me to take the chair. I asked him if it would hurt to have the tcoth pulled. Ho said it wouldn't, and I believed him. I laid back my head, and opened my mouth, and he reached in with a murder-ous-looking instrument, and went to prowling around in there. I didn't think it was so easy to have a tooth pulleel, 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 ; when lie came right up, and I screamed again. When he went down 1 thought I was dead ; but when he came up I knew better, and was sorry for it. 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 ever there was a boy who had reason to regret his father's vocation, it was that boy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4026, 7 October 1874, Page 5 (Supplement)
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