Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — He Got the Best of the Dentist. [ARTICLE]

He Got the Best of the Dentist.

A good many years ago a small boy called on an old-fashioned Saccarappa doctor and asked him how much he charged for pulling a tooth. “Twentyfive cents,” said the doctor. “Will it hurt?” inquired the lad. “If it don’t hurt you I won’t charge yon a cent," replied the doctor, facetiously. Ont came the doctor’s cantdog, and out jumped the boy’s tooth. Not a sound escaped the victim. His face was as impassive as the relentless cant-dog. “Did it hurt you?" inquired the doctor. “Not a darned bit,” rejoined the boy, calmly. That boy’s self-control ought to have made him a rich man.— Brunswick Telegraph.