And tackled the subject of boughten teeth, and
spirited argument they did wage.
For Dan insisted that sets of teeth were glued
to the sides of the wearers’ jaws,
—Never had seen ’em, he frankly owned, but
he knew ’twas so, “wal, jest because.”
While Dunk, with notions fully as firm, clawed
at his frosty whisker fringe,
And allowed that he knew that sets of teeth
were hitched together with spring and