A Dental Episode.
On a winter day so dreary he was sitting cross and weary, Poring o'ei: a musty volume of some clover dental lore, As he nodded, nearty napping, suddenly there came a tapping. As of someone gently rapping, rapping at his chamber door : ' Tis a patient,' l hen he muttered, 'only that and nothing more — Just a patient, nothing more.' Ho was peering o'er the shutter, when, with many a ilirt and flutter, In there &tept a d-csced-up maiden, like a doll from out a store ; Then a low obeisance made he, and a C i-Jcm r « do-do ? ' clayed, he, A& ho g.i/ed upon that lady who had enteiod at his door ; Then .she said, 'I've got the toothache, J only thai and nothing mou« — .In«t a toothache, nothing inon\ 3 lien I'm- paintu! op&iation had been homo witli lcsijf nation, And t>hc thanked a kindly piovidoucc that all her pa^n w.ii o'ci. He her foi fiLuuo was. piai?ing, said her coinage- wa>' amazing, For the pai.i mu>t have been dazing, he-was istai Lied by a roar, ' Such t\ bitter ciy of anguish he had never hcaid befoie — Never, never heard before. ' Donttet ! ' ciiedf.he, ' tio man gruffer, I i-oulfl almost call you duller, Are _\ on not content with causing all the pain that now i& o'er. But that you mu^t cru&h mv bonnut? aie standing now upon it, Oh, pi ay get jou quickly from it, and then tell me, I implore, It i; trodden on prisfc mending? Can 1 ever w ear it more ? ' Hut the fJcntisb answered nothing, for the dentist's heait was i-ore— Yea, very, very sore. Then '•he left where she was sitting, and \\ itli aiij^ry haste was flitting In a dusty, battci ed bonnet that had been upon the floor, And hor eyes had all the fashion of a person in a pa c si n, | In a really dreadful pas&iou, as&he blammed the chamber door. And that dentist sat quite "peeohless' in be« ildermonfc f-o .voic : Sho had left her .tooth jus payment, only that, and nothing more—
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 3
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363A Dental Episode. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 3
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