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Show Chaffer Box Dear Suzy, Most of us are familiar with "The Face on the Bar Room Floor", and if not familiar with it as least we have heard of U. But few of us have heard or are fam- iliar with "The Teeth on the Bar." It is a long tai.e but one that we should know about so let us begin be-gin at the beginning. It seems that during the holi-.days holi-.days one Ursal Barkdull was stand ing by a bar minding his own business and doing a small amount ofwhistle wetting. At this point comes June Maxfield o.n the scene, desirous of wetting a whistle also. Seeing Mr. Barkdull with his back to him, June thought it would be a lot of fun to give him the old bear hug, and June has the size to give a good one. So he grasped Mr. Barkdull from the rear, pinning his hands to his sides, and luckily Mr. Barkdull was empty handed at the time so nothing was spilled. Mr. Barkdull was quite surprised ito be attacked that way and figured the end was near, for try as hard as he could he could not break the iron grip that held him. He. threshed one way and then not while about a bar. LeRoy Walker who brought disgrace dis-grace to Oak City some years ago writes setting me straight on the cigar smoking episode. Quoth Walker, Wal-ker, "Brother Winn writes me a clipping from the Chronicle about the Oak City bad boys, and the implication that one upon a time the same fair city had other bad boys. Well except for two counts the article is correct. The two counts are that it was two years off in the time as to the episode, and also that it wasn't for smoking smok-ing cigars, but in fact it was when said Walker and Jack Dutson were caught doing a little light drinking. drink-ing. "I had thought that since both of us had left Oak City our names and deeds could be forgotten and our antics forgiven, but now you uncover the past and cause much disention among good people. "It seems that no matter how one tries to go straight someone always remembers. That is my main reason for the dislike of history his-tory and geneology. Your Friend, Roy." The fog has finally left so I guess the old-time bad boys of Oak City as well as the present time bad boys can be forgiven. Toots another, but still he was held by iron hands. He jumped up and down, knelt , and tried every itrick he knew to break the hold and find out who was his tormentor, but all were without success. After a short rest Mr. Barkdull gave one more mighty lunge, and it was about this time that June felt things had gone far enough, and so 'let go all at once, just as Mr. Barkdull's lunge reached its heighth. Mr. Barkdull sailed throu the air with the greatest of ease and came to rest with his upper teeth resting on the bar as though he were going to take a husky bite out of it. He imbedded his teeth so firmly into the bar that great tugging and pulling were needed to raise his head and finally get loose from the bar. And in getting loose from the bar he left two teeth there plus a nice row of teeth marks. It was lucky for Mr. Barkdull that his teeth are the replacable kind so he can leave those teeth there permanently while he has some new ones vulcanized in. But the troubles were still not over as the force of the impression impress-ion he made on the bar shoved his plate up into his mouth so firmly that he could not take the plate out to view the damage. June felt that a lot of the fault was his, and so even' though he had just come from a plumbing job and was not washed reached into Mr. Barkdull's mouth and did all he could to release the tight fitting denture. It was some time later that the plate and remaining remain-ing teeth were freed and Mr. Barkdull Bark-dull was able to view the damage with a jaundiced eye. The teeth that were left in the bar will remain there for time and eternity as the bar owner says that they are very good to strike matches on and seem to dress the bar up a bit, and too, it is quite unusual for a bar to have a set of teeth of its own and so stands out as unique among bars. Mr. Barkdull has been refitted and is as good as new, only that he is not in the mood for any more bear hugs from the rear, at least |