Show The Evening Telegrams Telegram's Daily Short Story I AN AWFUL TOOTH TOOTHACHE CHE CHEBy By DONALD ALLEN Copyright ht lr iii by ly till the McClure Newspaper News VH I pet paper Syndicate te M l d a Bottle o 1 1 had KOHO Jono to cr room and anti bed bcd d at II it o'clock ut at ho had bad been asleep Hn an n hour cr so when she bail liat a several Ic cral dreams She b began with that a n mad dog chased her bho Sho ho got so a way away from front the beast by dodging III Into a Lr bm er Then sho she dreamed d that thal a bull chased her across a meadow and catching cat up with her ber despite that that sho siw was aa a a. plon pion sprinter tossed her hec over o the time highway highway high high- way fence which wan wail cloven cn feet high the he h felt fell tho bump when she sho came camo down but no hones were broken Dream No Iso 3 related to a boa constrictor con con- stricter which waR wan trying to get gel a coil coll collor J or two around her body Lody BO O 0 a as 38 to con con- strict Dream No NoI 4 I was very c confusing She bhe he was was flirting with a 0 young oung man nan climbing a tree to get awn away from Crom corn wolves wolves-falling wolves falling down a coal mine mille and being run over 01 by byan byan byan an auto at the tho same samo time bhe he was vas about to lo get out of ot othe the he complication flu all right and Invest est her hor fortune fortuno In ln the stock of or orthe the New Haven road to got get dividends of oC 22 Z per cent when sho she awoke with a wild yel yell I. I She ha had the tho Jumping toothache When It jumped It Il maUo her toes crack When Then It didn't Jump It Il simply ached achell like liko all allgot get got out Betty what on earth Is the matterS cried the th mother as aN sho she came running Miss Betty Belty stuck a I. I Singe In her mouth and rolled up her eyes ces to sl signify nl that she wanted her grave l kept green Toothache ch YouVe You'Ve got sol your our feet wet wot again 0 1 A defiant wave ae a e of ot the h hand md to signify that she didn't care it if she Bhe got sot wet wot all over Of ot course Its It's that bad tooth of ot yours ours that you ou ought to have havo had Imd attended to weeks week ago AJO Miss Betty uttered a long drawn sigh I h to signify that she the could perl perish h and be he burled Ij by u fL trust trusty undertaker taker make CO GO per cent profit on the tho Job Youil have to old hold u a s of ot paregoric paregoric pare pare- goric gone In your mouth A sad and negative shako of the beadA head bead A uA bag bar of hot salt might relieve e It There Thereas Avas as a feeble moan as If too late lato Some one was telling me ma that hat they tried a corn plaster for tor lh iho thO toothache and it II cured It Mother Thc They sa say that hot hol ashes held In the mouth will do It Mother get ct out of at here or 01 you'll drive me crazY craz 1 Mis H Betty Beth Foxhall jumped out of bed br with such vigor Isor that her mother fled In alarm Then the tho girl walked back and forth and said eald things No dental parlor would bo open be before ho- ho fore foro 0 C If that j jumping tooth Jumped thirty times a minute in eight right hours hour it would have o Jumped tImes timeR and ond every Jump was like a rl right hl hand swing on the Jaw Could gio endure It Jump Groan Smothered yell It was no use to call up the police by telephone If she sho rang for or the ambulance ambulance lance Janco It would bo be out on another call If It she he turned In a fire alarm the en engine lne would come como and wet et down the new hat lint she had hail Just bought There was only one thing to he bo done dono Ml Miss s Betty tipped over chairs nUn flung everything ev cv- oft off the bureau and broke two or vases and tumbled herself on the tho bed and kicked tho the brass knobs 01 off orr tho the Then she sho fell asle asleep p The Jump and tho ache were about gone gono In the morning but the victim must musto go o to the dentists dentist's Three months previous pre to this mIdnight 1 t tra tragedy ed Mr MI Walter King ICing had graduated In dentistry at a a. certain college and had come to lo and set up In bush busi ness Half Halt an hour before the toothache victim vie vic tim Urn loft left her fathers father's house tho the dentist was surprised rd to ha have vc an old oltI classmate named naniel Fielding walk t In on him After a warm the dentist said ny Ive I've got gol to make a call on a arich arich arich rich old lady who some work done dono but cant can't get down here horo I may mar be gone an hour You mind tho the office till I get back Go right ahead old chap Im I'm no tooth anker but Ill I'll run th the rest of oC oftie tie tio show ban bang up It should be said of or Mr Fielding that In a wa way h he was a nice young oung man but buthe buthe buthe he was I always looking fora tor a Joke When hen left lert to mind the parlors he ho arrayed himself himself him him- self eU In the dentists dentist's working coat coU rumpled rumpled rumpled rum rum- pled up his hair so as to look professional and seemed to be the IT when I Miss Betty Foxhall mado made her advent ont Yes sir sir- sirI I awake was most all night Too bad Well We'll see Sec ce what can be bedone bedone done I hope It wont won't hurt Not tho the slightest Please take a scat seat In the chair When sho she shut Rhul her eyes eye and opened her mouth he located the tooth and asked Did you OU know that that toot tooti 1 Is bf what we call a one No It Is both us and archaic hat W hal does that mean And An I think It belongs to the piso- piso ceno cene p period There are arc savants ant a nt who would come n a thousand miles and pa pay you ot 1000 for that tooth Sell one of or m my gasped Bett Betty or Of course vou oi wont won't on but hut It would be a A. relic that scientific c research would woul 1 I highly prize I I didn't know tat fiat there was at anything I strange about that tooth No other denI dentist den den- I list hall baa over said there was wac I There arc dentists and dentists Moat tO of 01 them simply look upon t teeth as teeth You lou have ha hero here a tooth such euch as 08 were given en to men about n a million years ago agoa Nature Na Na- a ture sa gavi samen men those teeth that the tho they might tour tear raw meat and rid snap at each like dogs Ono One of or tho the savages ages of or ortha that tha t time lIm could gnaw a w a tr tree trpe o down dOn like a beaver er You never nover foci feI like gnawing do you OU 1 I 1 do not not sir Biri was wa th til th Indignant re reply ropI ro- ro pI ply as th the girl left heft th the s chair But Bitt you came cume horn hero with toothache And Amid I shall take tako It away with me mc mc But Hut If Ie you OU would would would- f But I wont won't Miss II I Betty felt that she had been surd guyed and the more she went O over Or r the matter th madder sho shio got Jot Wien len she he herf I rf reached 1 homr homp the she telephoned for her cousin Jim that aho had use Sum nm right away lIe He came caine and after repeatIng repeat repeat- I In ing AS ns much of ot th the tho cO conversation In the tho dental office as she site could rem remember she add added d I Do uDo you yoi 1 0 I have a tooth like a I wll wild 1 beast No maam ho lie trying to bo be sma smart rt 1 Ho was And AntI shouldn't something be done about it Sure Ill I'll g co JO and punch his lila head When hen v a n stranger er h haw has f tie tle cheek check to ask alk m my cousin Betty Belt If tr sho she over ever feels Ilk Ilk likA gnawing ln Its It's time he lie learned his lesson on B n the time Ume that cousin Jim got ot to the thc dental parlor Mr King Fing had har returned and Mr tIr Ir FI had skipped out wIthout without without with with- out saying baying n a word Great WitS was Mr Kings King's surprise when whon In walk walked d R a man who proceeded to knock him down and then Pick him up UJ and slam him all over th the office It was ns only t Jim got ot tired out tat explanations came and anti ho he discovered discovered dis dis- covered that he lie hair lIk licked d the wrong wron nia manWell man n. n Well ell queried Miss Misa U Betty as he lie r ro- ro turned I the tho dentist but bUl he wasn't tho ri right ht one Then who ho was waR wast A uA t chum cumin of or his whom he lie left In Incha cha charge Good gracious Iou c-Iou t. t And I cant can't find tho the rhum chum to lick him I But viat Hit will wilt the tIme dentist do about aboul It 1 I dont don't know but I J know what you YOli will do You'll go JO rl right ht down own there and und explain things and ancl tell him how sorry orr YOlar you YO ar are and try your our best hel to fall In lovo love with Ith him And Arid Miss Mia Betty Bett obeyed I |