DEEP-ROOTED INDEED.
Pat, his face much swelled in consequence of an abscess in his mouth, boldly cnto'-cd the dentist's house, eager to have the refractory tooth removed.
But when, perched high in tho operating chair, he saw the gleaming forceps nearing his mouth, that erstwhile courage left him. Closing his lips with a snap, he firmly refused again, to open them. In vain the dentist tried persuasion. Then, being a man of resource, he pushed a pin Into the patient's leg, and, as the Irishman opened his mcuth to yell, quickly inserted a gag; then pulled out the offending molar. "Well," asked the r'..-r l tist, when all was over, "it didn't hurt so very much after all—now, did it?" Reluctantly and reflectively the patient answered. "No. But," he added, stroking his leg, "little did I think them roots wint down that far."
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Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 343, 25 August 1914, Page 3
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