“That is so,” said Wallace. “Even horses aren’t worth much after their teeth are gone.”
“Why can’t they wear false ones?” asked Ruth with such seriousness that Wallace burst out laughing.
“I wish they could, poor things,” said her mother; “but come, dear, we must start.”
II. At the Dentist’s
“Ah, here is a little girl whose mouth looks as though she brushed her teeth regularly,” said Doctor Harrison, as he raised the big comfortable arm chair in which Ruth was sitting.
“She certainly is good about that, doctor,” said Mrs. Duwell.
“Even so,” said the doctor, “I think I shall give her one of my little picture cards.”
Ruth looked so pleased that he handed her two.