Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD.

Th«ir FoMfMor, However, Felt Obliged to Atk a Few Question*. A man six feet high, with the side of his head wrapped in dry goods, went into a Mcnroe street dental emporium the other day and sank wearily into a chair. In response to the proprietor’s “What can I do for you?" the large man said: “I have a toothache that is breaking my heart, and I think that I ought to have a fang drawn; but, you see, I haven’t been to a dentist since I was a boy, and I want to ask you a few questjons before you go to work. ” “Go ahead?” “I want to know whether you prop a man’s jaws apart with an iron wedge and then tell him to ‘look pleasant, please.’" “Certainly we don’t” “I want to know whether you fasten one hand in the victim’s hair and brace a knee against his throat,

and then draw his tooth as though you were pulling the cork from a beer bottle with a corkscrew.” “Why, that would be murder; 3>ou feel no pain at all.” “That’s what the dentist told me when I was a boy. I want to know whether you use a jimmy to draw a tooth when the pincers fail, and also whether you will replace, free of charge, any sections of the jaw that may be removed during the operation. ” “We won’t hurt you at all.” “Then you may go ahead; but I have a friend at the foot of the stairway. He is a larger man than I am, and he can punch a hole through a stove lid; and if I yell once he is coming up here eight .steps at a time to knock down the ceiling with you. Do you want to go ahead?” “I am afraid not; you had better go up street to the veterinary surgeon.”—Chicago Tribune.