The Dentist and the Bishop.
A. yottng country dentist of good family got recommended to him as a patent no less a person than the Bishop of his dioce«e. He made a set of teeth tor him, and was ippoin+ed for his lordship to call and fit them on (or in). It was a moment of great professional importance to the dentist, as he watched his noble client examining himself and his new teeth in the pier glass. Imagine his horror, therefore, when he distinctly caught an expression of a condemnatory character and ending in "ation" from his lordship's lips. '• I daresay they are a little uncomfortable my lord," he murmured conciliatingly, " but just at first, and until you get used to them " " Without doubt he shall perish everlastingly," exclaimed his lordship with vehemence. •' But indeed, my lord, if yy n \\ will but have patience," pleaded the dentist : "in a week's time " "What do you mean?" inquired his lordship, turning round with an apostolic ptnile. " Why should I not have patience? The teeth fit me beaulif ully ; it is the first time I have found myself able to pronounce the Athanasian Creed with distinctness for these twenty years."
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 88, 7 February 1885, Page 5
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