Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — An Outside Operation. [ARTICLE]

An Outside Operation.

Gape God, in one of its fishy towns, has a clever doctor, and a wag withal. In one of his rides, just leaving home, pe was met by a fleshy, panting female, whose bandaged face and forlorn aspect denoted only too well her ailment. “Oh! doctor, doctor!” she exclaimed, “I am almost dying with the toothaohe! ,Yon mast return immediately to your office and give me relief!” - The good man instantly signified his willingness to do so, and they soon reached his residence. The lady, all trepidation and nervousness, tremblingly-sank into a chair and awaited the dread process. The doctor, meantime, with the kindness and considerateness which, were always his characteristics, endeavored to encourage and reassure her. But as he stepped up to her with the “cruel’’forceps, the perspiration ran more prCfasefy/ the patient sat more uneasily, and the month opened wider and wider, as if it would take in hoo(f t hi n g its immediate neighbor- “ Again I beg you to be calm, madam,” were the words of the physician, “and suffer yourself to have no fear. It will be but rite work of a moment,-at the longest. And perhaps,” he added, with a glance at the “cavernous" opening before him, and with just the slighted approach to a waggish smile, “you might even venture to dote the mouth a Utile, particularly as I purpose to stand upon the outside during the operation .” V’ t L .si i Y«v ?i. ;