CLEARING THE WAY.

New Zealand Tablet, 8 December 1921, Page 46

CLEARING THE WAY.

Forceps in hand, the young dentist approached his nervous patient. “You’re sure you’re an experienced man?” inquired the victim, noting the dentist’s youth. “I’m —I’m quite a c-coward, you know! Ha, ha!” “My dear sir,” assured the youth, “in one minute it will all be over. So! Ah! now then I” “YOW-HOW!” roared the patient, clipping his hand to his jaw. Then he looked up, to see the dentist smiling benevolently at him. “There!” said the young man. “That’s out! Did it hurt “Hurt?” roared the patient. “Hurt?”' He made an experimental tour around his ' gums with his tongue. A terrible discovery was the result. “Young man,” he shrieked, “you’ve pulled out the wrong one!” “I know,” said the dentist; “but now I can get at the other one more easily.”