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Show H ForYoungerReader s i Short Stories for. Littlb Foi. ks A Hyst rlons lllfapprorancf. H There ti a siory about a boy feeding H his father' false teelh to hll hungry dog H: In search of a bone. There I another story about n man who swnllowtd hi H teeth and lived on muriatic acid until the H teeth had been eaten up by the add H History don not soy uhat cllcct the acid H had on the stomach There H another V story about n mm uho grew tired of m L chculiiR his food, so that he swallowed H' bis teclh and bis Rums, and masticitcd uvj his food thereafter ns the chicken I H' populirly supposed lo do. H iA All of thesu Miories at fiUo, but it I 3 true that Mr. William 11 lluuiplirejs.u kI salesman 57 years ul uj;e, luini; at the .1 United Mates Hotel hi New York.ilul R lose his f tlsc teeth, In some peculiar B TO niinncr, at an early hour the other morn- m Just ho' ho lost Ihcm Is n inysier H! Some siy that he stvalloucd them him- K relf, but there are other llicoilcs ml- r vanccd. The police of tint section of H thecity areuorkhiR on ilie mysterious 2 illsappeitaiicc of tne teeth, hut until Htf they lind soma clew they Invti decided B not to tilk about the nutter. Mr. Hum. m phrc)3 sjs himself that he salloui.d H them, and that they arc now in his de 1 partment of Ihe interior. 1 The doctor front the Chainbert Street H Hospital is mjslifiril, and, as uui, H knows uothhig: nbout the case Hum- m plires refused treitinent, and uould not H KOtotheliospil.il It is slid nt tliu hoti 1 M that a set ol tetlli ui.ro founil under H Mr. Iluinphrcys's bed, and ilui he H merely hid n nightman: and inuxuicdlic H sualluucd his teeth. H Mr. Humphre) s himself uas nut nt V c H hotel to-ila). He had left there at nil B earl) hour to go to hi work. Tlie clerk ( refused to tell whit he knew nbout tlio IB case. Only one man who knew nbout piB tliernse or who said he did could be RBM found. "1 understand," said thts nun, "th:t ) Mr. Huinphrcjs uas sitting in his rt,om J readme. He wiped .1 I'.n-nt deal, ami sucked bis fuse Icctli doun into lis stomach. That was at ibout 3 30 o cloik 1 heirdn nre.it iioUr and Hie i;intlenieii BBI rushed down to the dfhk M "SomithliiK's droppsdl" he t 'led. IBB What Is 11 ixilaimidtlieilcrk "My teeth," t.ilcl he ' Ciee' was nil the ti'lk saiil. piB "With that tin y sentfor an mubulanrc tile doctor (.line, but llunip'iri) uouldnt have him at Hi' bo ha unit back .-ipuln 10 tlio hospital. This morn liiK llunmhriis went .ibout his work .is uiuil 1 dare bay if I e c 111 stand it the M teeth can." At the hospital It wis said that a d ctur by the name of Woods bad alien- deililniiientletiiAii who had swallowed I hl iceth. The mui refused to come to the hospital, nnd so after wnrnlng him not 10 crow until he sot out of the woods tlin doctor led. The ductors would not talk much about the case Tli-y said lint since a stomach pump had not been used they could not tell the I 1 BilW true inside fids nbout the esse. They slid not know cxiclly how the teeth would bj recovered. Anoperition, liny tliouxhl, would he necessuri. It nil depended upon where the teeth lodged. |