Ordeal by Gas.
A wild-looking man rushed into a dentist's ( house, nearly upsetting the butler at ths '. •door. , "Do you gi\e gas here?' 1 asked the new- : comer. \ ''We do," replied the dentist. j '"Does it put a fellow to sleep?" ( '"It does." ( "Sound sleep, so you can't wake him up?" I < '"Yes." " j ; "You coul-d break his jaw or black his < eya and he wouldn't feel it"'" ( "He would know nothing about it." j | "How long does he sleep?" | i "About a minute, or probably a little i Ie«." " j "I expect that's long enough. Got it all ( ready for a fellow to take?'' i '"Yes; take a seat in this chair, and show < me your tooth." j "Tooth nothing!" said the excited calbr. ( beginning rapidly to renters hi> -coat and ( vest. "I want you to pull a porous plastji* i off my back!"' | I ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 87
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146Ordeal by Gas. Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 87
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