Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — His Account with His Dentist. [ARTICLE]

His Account with His Dentist.

Brown has the reputation of being one of the most miserly of men, but he plumes himself on his inexorable sense of justice. For fifteen years he owed a dentist $22 for filling a front tooth with gold, refusing to pay it because he said the bill was exorbitant. The other day the filling came out. He took the gold to a jewelry store and had it valued. Then he wrote to the dentist and inclosed a check for his account, based on the following computation: “Actual value of the gold, $3.50; amount of labor, (which I deem liberal), $5; for the use of the tooth fifteen years, $5; total, $13.50. I return gold on account and inclose check for the balance, $10.”