Quite Right, Too.
"George," exclaimed Mrs Younghusband, with a radiant smile, '"baby has a tooth."
"Has he?" was the response, in a tone which betrayed no emotion "You don't seem surprised "'"
'"I'm not surprised. All babies have fir^t teeth If ours didn't ha\e any I'd manage to work up some excitement, perhaps." "I thought you'd be ever bo pleased and happy about it." "No; I don't see that it's any occasion for especial congratulations. The baby has my deepest sympathy." •'What for?"
"For having the first tooth. He has just struck the opening chapter of a long story of trouble. Pietty soon he'll ha\e other teeth."
"Of course he will."
"Every one he cuts will hurt him. Then his second teeth will come and push theee out. Thai will hurt him again. Some of
the new onc3 will grow crooked, likely as j not, and he will have to go to the dentist and have instruments adjusted to them to I pull them into line. Then he'll cut his wisdom teeth. Thoy will hurt a lot. After that he'll have to go to the dentist and let him drill holes and hammer until his face feels like a great palpitating stone quarry. I shouldn't like him to go through life without teeth. But I must say that I don t see any occasion for the customary hilarity over an event that means so much in the way of sorrow and humiliation."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2523, 23 July 1902, Page 77
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241Quite Right, Too. Otago Witness, Issue 2523, 23 July 1902, Page 77
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