see.”

Some one started then to tell him, but the doc

he had the floor,

An’ he snapped ’em up so spiteful that the}

didn’t say no more.

Then he wrinkled up his eyebrows, pursed his

lips as tight’s a bung,

Pried apart old Iral’s grinders an’ says he,

“Le’s see your tongue.”

“Why,” says he, “I see the trouble—you’ve