. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ist gavethe raw nerve a harder jab, and thestoic nearly died with pain but wouldnot show it. The dentist looked sur-prised, and reached for a more dead-ly tool, and gave the raw nerve a pokethat made the stoics blood run coldand his hair curl, although it was na-turally straight hair, but still the stoicwould not utter a sound. Then thedentist did things to that raw nervethat would have made a whole raceof stoics turn pale, and he kept ondoing them, and at last the-man in because you knew it would be deduct-ed from anything you said before yourstatemen
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ist gavethe raw nerve a harder jab, and thestoic nearly died with pain but wouldnot show it. The dentist looked sur-prised, and reached for a more dead-ly tool, and gave the raw nerve a pokethat made the stoics blood run coldand his hair curl, although it was na-turally straight hair, but still the stoicwould not utter a sound. Then thedentist did things to that raw nervethat would have made a whole raceof stoics turn pale, and he kept ondoing them, and at last the-man in because you knew it would be deduct-ed from anything you said before yourstatement would be accepted. Andyou had to deduct it from anythingany one said to you becauseyou knew it was added. If aman said he had caught a ten-pound fish you knew he hadcaught an eight-pound one, and nota ten-pound one, because if he hadcaught a ten-pound fish he wouldhave said he had caught a thirteen-pounder, and if he said he had caughtan eight-pounder you knew it wasreally but a six-pound fish. Oncethe system was understood it was easy. The doctor diagnosed the case correctly, after he had heard the story of the jug of wine. the chair uttered one faint littlegrunt, and at that the dentist stoppedprodding and said, Well, I thoughtI never would find that nerve. Hehad expected the stoic to speak up likeany other man, you see, and not lieabout it by keeping silent. All hewanted to do was to locate the nerve;after that he did not hurt the man atall. Sime Bang never made that mis-take. He let his pain speak up plain-ly. This was not exaggeration, be-cause in the shanty-boat village every-body did the same, and it was cus-tomary to allow a certain percentagefor overstatement. You had to add it to follow. If Sime Bang, for in-stance, said he had had a falling outwith Rufe Wallers and had killedthe long-legged cuss, you figured offthe discount and knew that the twomen had had a quarrel and that Simehad hit Rufe over the head with afish pole, or that, at least, he hadshaken his fist at
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