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thought. My sore muscles kept me still until it was 

 about time to turn in, and as I moved Antoine looked up 

 and said: "I'll tole you. You gat pull dis toot'. I can't 

 stan' heem no mo'; you mus' pull a-heem. Wat you say, 

 hey? I'll t'ink I'll wait till you come back; but he hurt 

 lak da dev'." 



Here was a strange job indeed. In the course of my 

 short experience I could remember going down the 

 Greenbush bank to Dr. Getty and seeing him wrap a 

 handkerchief around what he called a "turnkey," and 

 then I nearly fainted when he told me to open my mouth 

 while he applied that villainous thing, which was like a 

 "cant hook," which lumbermen use to roll logs, or like a 

 stump puller, and twisted a molar out of my jaw by turn- 

 ing such a handle as a corkscrew has. Later, Dr. Fris 

 bee had used the more modern forceps on one of my in- 

 cisors, and these recollections were vivid, as they called 

 up the sensation of nerves pulled until they snapped like 

 a harp string. I ran these things over rapidly and said : 



"Antoine, I haven't got a tool to pull a tooth with, 

 and wouldn't know how to pull it if I had. I've seen the 

 loose teeth of children pulled with a thread, but that tooth 

 of yours is solid in your jaw. I can't do it; no use talk- 

 ing about it." 



"I'll gat da t'ing all plan," said he, "I'll tole you. 

 'Fore you come I'll run up all da lead in bullet for you' 

 big gun an' mine. Dan we gat no use for da mole. 

 .You'll tak da mole an' pull da toot', hey?" 



"Antoine, I can't pull that tooth with a bullet mould; 

 it isn't the right shape, and it won't hold. I'll only tor- 

 ture you, and you'd better wait until we get back to civil- 

 ization. The tooth may be better in a few days. Try 

 and bear it; we'll be home in a few weeks, and then if it 

 troubles you there will be a chance to have it pulled by 



