Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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It was toothache ailed poor jenkins, and his jaw hummed night and day, Like a beehive in the orchard depths in honey-making May. He tried everything to stop it that he'd heard or read about, But he didn't try the dentist-for he wouldn't have it out. There it stayed, that hateful, twisting, grinding torture in the jaw, Like a grinning littledemon with the nerve clutched in his paw. Jenkins couldn't keep from howling 3 he would groan and curse and shout, Till the neighbors thought him crazy- but he wouldn't have it out. Jaw and cheek and tongue were peeling from the stuff he applied, And he couldn't sleep the imp off, for it woke him when he tried. He was sore and weak and wasted, and his tooth jumped like a trout g But he clinched his fists and bore it-for he wouldn't have it out. A BAD TOOTI-1. IO L-.IWW So he languished, wrenched and anguished, for a fortnight black with pain 3 Then he rushed to find a dentist-and turned weakly back again. Awful visions rose before him, filled his trembling soul with doubt, And he shrunk back to his torment-for he wouldn't have it out. Deeper, blacker grew the anguish that was eating up his soul, Till his very life seemed ebbing through that little angry hole. And the imp kept twisting, twisting, with the bitter spite of gout. Till poor Jehkins writhed and whimpered, but he wouldn't have it out. I will live it down ! he muttered 5 and he went his feeble way, Till the pain grew like a storm cloud, blotting all the light of day. On the last verge of endurance, with just strength to crawl about, He went cowing to the dentist, and 'twas fun to have it out.

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got back. Bill said he would never pull another tooth again as long as he lived, and I guess he never has since. U One day last summer I was playing Croquet and didn't feel like being disturbed until I had finished my game, when a fellow came along and said he wanted a tooth out. Thatls strange, I said, I just had to pull a tooth a few minutes ago. It ain't often I pull more than one in a day. It was a tough job I had, I went on. I took the man out to the barn and dragged him across the barn floor three or four times before I got it out. 4' ' Is that possible?' says the fellow. 'IVell, this doesn't ache so bad now, so I guess we'l1 let it alone for today. Very well,', I replied, so away he went and I finished my game in peace. He never showed up again, either. But the funniest thing of all happened a couple of l i mlb' years ago. I went into Johnnie Hurd's store one day, and a stranger was saying just as I got in : 'Yes I was in your town, Mr. Hurd, about fifteen years ago. I ain't likely to forget the visit, either. I had a dreadful toothache, and some one sent me down to an old doctor who tackled my jaw with a hog hook. He nearly killed me before he got the tooth out.' Why, how do you do, my friend, I said, stepping around in front of him and smiling as I offered him my hand. How do you do? I didn't recognize you at first. Iilll the doctor. Now I'1l explain about that hog hook. You see, I keep different kinds of instruments for different species of animals, and so, naturally, when a hog comes along I just use a hog hook. That's all. And with that I turned around and walked out of the store, leaving the fellow standing there gaping and speechless. ' ' WWW 0 O f -.4419 3 X may' ' ,1.-5 :-fl , -:bfi-'Vi '- gi J. .Tr --,-. I 'I 1,,gj , ,fini . tl,-tt. e ' Amy' px ' ' M I f '-f . K X ?? uh' 3.5. 11,0 L-V my ...ff ,.1,' .ff .'s','lg,fp 1 q .VW Ilyqilili' SQ' A t Rh: ' . i'I:'- il I ' W! if I A ' V sf i . if IO6

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g- file tolo by 'Himself 5 : 5 55 Bumbelsbaufersteiws Banquet Speech Before Q l ...iiI.I.iu ,, 5 Q Q Q Q the Graduates Q Q Q Q is izzzlzzz 55 ' f' III! 1122 55 I Illll un vm. 1- r I E VOS seated in a bunch like a lump spread oud, and each vone Q off der bersons of der insides of der room vas saiding a compli- Q mendary do der 0. C. D. S. und hoping dot id vould many years been conglomerationed dogedder, vorwards, hence, und so vorth, etcedra. Id vos do me dolt dot I vould been a speech, if id could been berhaps bossible und id bossible vos berhaps. Der toast-vaiter sait a nodding mit his hedt und nioshened mine names, Dr. Rudolph Ludwig Bumbelshauferstein, Esq., und before I knew id der excide- mend stood all over me in der Vorm of a night-sweat. All der hair stood on mine hedt straight ub on der feets. I begins der commencing und said : Shendlemens, you vas gaddered togedder here in a click, bud soon you vasnid such a click, JN' after a few bunches of hours. You vill sait so long or so short, as der case may been. You vill been separa- tioning from each odder avayg your eyes vill spring a leak, und your faces vill resembling der von in der comicle newsbaper of der feller when some von has dropped some limburger cheese indo his ice cream sody- vatter. After you ged seddled down und up, den commences der touching bart of der businex. Ven you touch der batients gife dem a gentle touch, for if you touch dem very hard dey vill sait dot you are a rough guy, und commences do call you ' Doc.' Und ven dey do commence to call you 'Doc' you hat bedder commence do do bedder vork or der machine vill bust. Ven businex is duff don' ged digested mit life. Prace up, und remember dot axim, 'Id is a long lane Vot gadders no moss'-plug teeth. Ven a batient comes in und asks you aboud someding und you can'd rememper id, just said, ' sure ' Maybe he'll coming