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? ? ? ? "Aunt Polly it seemed mortified, and it hurt so I never minded my tooth at all."

? ? ? ? "Your tooth, indeed! What's the matter with your tooth?"

? ? ? ? "One of them's loose, and it aches perfectly awful."

? ? ? ? "There, there, now, don't begin that groaning again. Open your mouth. Well- your tooth is loose, but you're not going to die about that. Mary, get me a silk thread, and a chunk of fire out of the kitchen."

? ? ? ? Tom said:

? ? ? ? "O, please auntie, don't pull it out. It don't hurt any more. I wish I may never stir if it does. Please don't, auntie. I don't want to stay home from school."

? ? ? ? "Oh, you don't, don't you? So all this row was because you thought you'd get to stay home from school and go a-fishing? Tom, Tom, I love you so, and you seem to try every way you can to break my old heart with your outrageousness."

? ? ? ? By this time the dental instruments were ready.


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