The Grinder Papers — page 204: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 199 NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR. MISS CHARITY SPEAKS OF DENTISTS. No, Miss Dusenberry, I can’t say as how I hev any pertick- eler faith in dentifrices. My belief is how’t when Providence gives you the toothache, you've got to grin and bear it. How I talk! you think you kin be saved most o’ the pain by takin’ your teeth in time? Ridiculous! Why, I can prove tu the contrary by my cousin, Tiffany Briggs. Never heerd on him? Wall, I declare! He was considered a very talented young man—consid'rable above the resto the Brigges, in pint o’ intelectability—took more arter me in that respect. | Well, the rest on ‘em was tinsmiths, and they calkerlated howt Tiffany would be glad to ketch hold and help, when he was old enough; but, land o’ liberty! he didn’t take no sense 0’ the tin perfession. Sez he to his pa, ‘‘Pa,” sez he, ‘‘it’s well enough for Ned and Dick to live among sarcepans, but I’m o’ another natur’,” sez he. | : ‘Lor’,” sez his pa. ‘‘ How in thunder did ye come by it?” 3 “Dunno,” sez Tiffany. ‘‘It was born in me—I can’t stoop tu tins, ” Eomichboo ‘S