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Show Cohrrd Womsa Willing to Suffer Pan hr tht Sike of Pouctiiag j ti Colt Tooth ; 'Nitroe are toollnn about gold troth," Buld a t-itlz'n who Uvea In the old French QuartiT. "and wently I bavo hud thla Hut rather fon-lbly hn-prrttsed hn-prrttsed on my mlnrt. Home time ago I hud a n ro woman work Inn (or mo, aud one day nhe wua tilling me about a nogro who had a Kold tooth, and r marked that idie hnd tried to got him to ft Wo It to tiT. H entiihlud no rldlcu loua that I laiiKhid. 'Why, hotis,' he aid 'that iiIkk't's tm'th In bottcr'n mine. Mr J-s hud tin k(M slipped on th outildP, fur hp ti'!i look It off and showed It to inc. And It wna a (net, too. It wflM JiiHt a tlil 11 anil Khluy i-ov rrhiR fur tin nntt-r put of otto of his Iront trlh, und lit' nsril It hcraiiKu hn believed It nddrd to 111' HWoutnohg of hit hiiiIIm V havo a nrw utTVunt at our ; Iiouho, a negro woiuuu, and hIw Ih :if-Ulclfd :if-Ulclfd with tho Hitmc rnud hleu tiuif thcru Ih nothing to qmil a guld tut,; when It t-omi'H to winning favors among the memlx-in f Iht r:n p. A fpw duya bko Hho hrought u handbill homo whlrh nhe had picked un nomt1- wluro in tho 8tro't. It had been teat-tpred teat-tpred hroadmHt by a locul deittlHt, who ailvertlsed th fart that he was giving to every putl nt who callrd at bin office one gold tooth. Thla caught l.uclndy'a eye. "1 happened to be punning the kltrh-en kltrh-en window and 1 Haw Liirlndy before a mirror, with Iht mouth wldo open, and ulip was makliiK n clone tnxprrtton nf every tooth In Iht head. My wife had paid something nbout thf pretty, even teeth the negro hud, but I thought probably fIip hnd tho toothache. "Toothache, t.ueludy?' I aaked. 'No. bopft. i.be repMi'd. 'never haa hud toothache, Jen trytn' to see which one o' d" e teeth I'm gwlnter have iiulled, to I ran git one of dese gold teeth,' nnd Htie showed me thn rlrculnr which phn hnd pit -ked np In the street. I told her kIio ouht not to do It, nnd M.-med lo be vry inui h put out : 1.'t It," New Urloaaa TlmeH-Demo-crsu |