Dinah had been troubled with a toothache for some time before she got up enough courage to go to a dentist. The moment he touched her tooth she screamed.
"What are you making such a noise for?" he demanded. "Don't you know I'm a 'painless dentist'?"
"Well, sah," retorted Dinah, "mebbe yo' is painless, but Ah isn't."
DENTIST—"Open wider, please—wider."
PATIENT—"A—A—A—Ah."
DENTIST (inserting rubber gag, towel, and sponge)—"How's your family?"
A young man who needed false teeth wrote to a dentist ordering a set as follows: