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“ And which side did you hold?”
“ De moon, sah. I jes’ argued dat de sun shines by
day, when we doan’ need de light; but de moon, it
shines by night, when dat light certainly am needed.
An’ dev couldn’t answer dat, sah!”
A SEV ER E
LOVE T E ST
Billfuzz had the toothache recently and he went to
young Dr. Pullem to have the offending molar extract
ed. The dentist put him under the influence of gas
and proceeded to business. It happened that Pullem
was madly in love with a girl who up to this time had
not returned his affections or indicated any preference
for him. As he adjusted his forceps to the tooth, his
mind wandered to his lady-love, and he smiled sweetly
to himself as he thought of her and hoped that she
might soon bestow her favor upon him.
He grasped the forceps and out came the tooth, and
as he pulled it he imagained it was a daisy whose petal
he had just plucked out. “ She loves me,” he panted;
then absent-mindedly he grasped the next tooth to it
and pulled it out exclaiming feverishly, “ She loves me
not.”
He saw the glistening row of teeth before him, le-
minding him so forcibly of a daisy, and in a flash he
had caught hold of the third tooth and yanked it, with
the hopeful exclamation, “ She loves me.” Out they
came, one after another in quick succession. “ She
loves me not: she loves me: she loves me not, she loves
me — ” and so on till, a few moments later, Billfuzz
came to his senses and spat out a bucketful of blood
and found he hadn’t a tooth left in his head.
What the verdict of the tee:h was as to whether young
Pullem’s enamorata loved him, or loved him not, is
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