nse gratification by this
discovery and fired moreover by the impetuous ardor of the chase, he
grabs up a crochet needle with a red hot stinger on the end of it and
jabs it down your tooth to a point about opposite where your suspenders
fork in the back.

You have words with him then, or at least you start to have words with
him, but he puts his knee in your chest and tells you that it really
doesn't hurt at all, but is only your imagination, and utters other
soothing remarks of that general nature. He then exchanges the crochet
needle for a kind of an instrument with a burr on the end of it. This
instrument first came into use at the time of the Spanish Inquisition
but has since been greatly improved on and brought right up to date. He
takes this handy little utensil and proceeds to stir up your imagination
some more. You again try to say something, speaking in a muffled tone,
but he is not listening. He is calling to a brother assassin in
the adjoining room to come and see a magnificent example of a prime
old-vatted triple X exposed nerve. So the Second Grave Digger rests his
tools against the palate of his victim and comes in.

As nearly as you can gather from hearsay evidence, you not being an eye
witness yourself, one of them harpoons the nerve just back of the gills
with a nutpick--remember please it is your nerve that they are taking
all these liberties with--and pulls it out of its retreat and the other
man takes a tack hammer and tries to beat its brains out. Any time he
misses the nerve he hits you, so his average is still a thousand, and
it is fine practice for him. A pleasant time is had by everybody present
except you and the nerve. The nerve wraps its hind legs around your
breastbone and hangs on desperately. You perspire freely and make noises
like a drunken Zulu trying to sing a Swedish folk song while holding a
spoonful of hot mush in his mouth.

In time becoming wearied even of these congenial diversions and tiring
of the shop talk that has been going on, the second dentist returns
to his original prey and the party who has you in charge tries a new
experiment. He arms himself with a kind of an automatic hammering
machine, somewhat similar to the steam riveter used in constructing
steel office buildings, except that this one is more compact and can
deliver about eighty-five more blows to the second. Thus equipped, he
descends far below your high water mark and engages in aquatic sports
and pastimes