The true philosopher and other cat tales . say herfirst and last tooth, since she never cut any more,—andsince the fall of that invaluable fragment of herself,Isabella and the dentist had not ceased their waragainst the invaders, neither had the latters sleep be-come less uncertain. The summer had now arrived,and the dentist, finding himself almost too tired to filland quite too tired to pull, determined to extend hiscustomary vacation from ten days to two weeks, andaccordingly, in the hottest of the hot weather, whenpajamas and ice water had no effect at all, the dentist,carrying a fat, brown
The true philosopher and other cat tales . say herfirst and last tooth, since she never cut any more,—andsince the fall of that invaluable fragment of herself,Isabella and the dentist had not ceased their waragainst the invaders, neither had the latters sleep be-come less uncertain. The summer had now arrived,and the dentist, finding himself almost too tired to filland quite too tired to pull, determined to extend hiscustomary vacation from ten days to two weeks, andaccordingly, in the hottest of the hot weather, whenpajamas and ice water had no effect at all, the dentist,carrying a fat, brown hand-bag, backed himself offthe stoop, earnestly exhorting the cook to protect Isa-bella. Now the cook had a follower, not the kind thatdrone dully in the kitchen, nor the kind that hangover palings in honeyed converse, but a gay and gal-lant escort who wore a diamond ring and a floweredneck-tie, and who, during the dentists absence, tookBridget walking every afternoon and conducted herto the movies every evening. Wherefore it came to. EARNESTLY EXHORTING THE COOK TO PROTECT ISABELLA^ AND OTHER CAT TALES 19 pass that upon the dentists return a very disheveledIsabella stepped to meet him in a very syncopated way,and the cook could make no explanation, albeit callingthe saints to witness that she had not let the blessedbeast out of her sight. Upon examination, the wounds proved to be asevere bite in the left hind-leg, one equally severe inthe right fore-leg, two nicks in the ear, a long brownscratch down the nose, and a bare pink area on thetail. Horrified, the master summoned the veterinarywho bandaged Isabella, while the dentist retired atonce into his office where he might have been seen tilltwo oclock in the morning immersed in a stout volumebearing the laconic title: Jslws For the ensuing week, the dentist utilized all hisspare moments in making difficult researches in Isa-bellas mouth, drawing little diagrams, and even at-tempted a wax impression—a project that failed
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