Dialect Tales

Attracted by that picture? said Dr. Alonzo, affably, his fingers on Aunt Anniky’s pulse. My par had that struck off the first time I ever got a tooth out. That’s par with the gray hair and the benediction attitude. Tell you, he was proud of me! I had such an awful tussle with that tooth! Thought the old fellow’s jaw was bound to break! But I got it out, and after that my par took me with him ‘round the country– starring the provinces, you know–and I practiced on the natives.