s difficulty in finding so much as a small
boy to carry its basket across the street. Mayhap this is why it is
largely the elderly and frequently the unattractive people who fight
for honest rights for their class and sex, while it is from pretty
young women's lips issues most of the silly rubbish anent it being
entirely women's fault that men will not conform to their "influence"
in all matters. Only a very small percentage can regard conditions
from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own
shoe-pinch.

"I happened to see Miss Dawn here and waited to ask you how you are,"
said Ernest.

"Just what you should have done," I replied; "and now if you can wait
till I investigate another dentist I want your opinion on a purchase I
am making."

"Oh, certainly," he hastened to reply; "I'm doing a loaf this
afternoon. I thought I heard my oar crack this morning, so came for
some leather to tack round it."

This in elaborate explanation of his presence there.

The second dentist proved the antithesis of his contemporary, being
short, pleasant, and bright.

"I'll tell you what," he said, laughing engagingly, "the best thing to
be done with that tooth is to dress it with carbolic acid. Now this is
a secret."

"One of those that only a few don't know, I suppose."

"Perhaps so," he said, laughing still more pleasantly.

"You can do this tooth just as well as I can. Get three penno'worth of
acid and put some in once or twice a-day and the nerve will be dead in
two or three days, and I'll do the rest."

As he proved such an amiable individual, though probably an
exceedingly suburban dentist, I got rid of half an hour in desultory
chat, as I could see from the window that the knight and the lady, if
not progressing like a house on fire, were at least enjoying
themselves in a casual way.

"Did you have only one tooth to be attended to?" inquired Dawn when I
appeared.

"Yes; and I fear that it will be one too many for Noonoon dentists," I
replied. I could think of nothing upon which to ask Ernest's advice,
so I feigned that I was not feeling well enough for any further worry
that afternoon, but would command his services at a future date.

I now held the pony while Dawn disappeared into a shop and reappeared
with an acquaintance who invited us to attend a political meeting that
night. The electors, alarmed at the prodigal propensities of the
sitting government, were forming an Opposition League to