Show 1 axe not net long giuma si cwi uma a tall slouchy looking yankee wm wa boen poking round roand the market evidently trying to hunt bt up chaps to with halloo mister ll 11 said he to 0 a feller behind the co counter anter with a goose quill behind his ear ar 0 do o yai yea want t ohi any tooth pow der ave got some clear grit sone aono of homr counterfeit stuff staff sueh seeb ft as we regular aall r none of your e compounds qui pounds of redoak red oak sawdust saw dust aad a n d hemlock bawo bark with a little alum to make it if like aunt cabrys Nab bys apple batice its real myrrh peruvian soda and what not all the gals in our town tow use it wad it makes their jaws look like lik a stone astone wall just whitewashed and their breath like alia a heffers heifers hei fers just antof oat of clever the fellow behind the counter lightened up Cc the price said he five dollars a gross gross and heres a sample of the critter said the yankee puffing a 4 box out of his pocket neatly turned out oat of beeh beech timber limber with ft A V label 04 oate on the top printed on red paper pap adib 4 P fand nd burrs a round the customer took him right u up P a and n d agreed reed to deliver in one hour he then out cut sticks af icks for his lodgings and in about an hour or so returned full chisel foil followed lomed by a strapping negro negra trundling a wheelbarrow full fall of boeth powder ted sound made h hj y holmsey no mistake el the ten gross oss were aal counter out baah paid and the bill receipted in im less than no time I 1 the fellow soon advertised his new tooth powder and the gals and the young fellows and some of theold ones 00 00 oo were soon round chiw as izbick jiow ats crows aws braund dead orp but 40 in a few hours hom tai things ago began to look rather blee via bis customers came back i in droves comp complaining mainini that bi his a boxes woul ont open he took one and pulled ind id tu tugged 9 9 ed and twisted and screwed it but bat 11 ill to no 1 purpose the top and the bottom daok as tight to one another as aunt bushs tilt tat cakes sticks to the teeth at last zet get ag yg 9 put gilt of all patie patience abr laa lad it op 0 n the tor or took the store hatchet and smashed ato the alif this soon let the cat it nit lat all the boxes excepting the sample were inde fade of one solid stack of beech wood the ie top and the bottom ail in one with no iu in midd leand a hair h kr i att oka af f th tha eael olit outside side to look yke lice a joint aft M for powder as s there was no loyal to I 1 put an any there was not any there darn the ya yankee A ee tin says sava the fellow ifa if I 1 dont brinto be into iiii the worst kind I 1 gut but the chap was mw among tb the e missing missing i he tad had pulled foot for or new york fand sold the af pf bis hi tooth powder there 0 att len dollars a gross exchange |