“Dummy,” is a deaf mute newsman on the Long Island Railroad. Lately he
had suffered much in mind and body from an aching tooth. He did not like
dentists, but he resolved that the tooth must go. He procured a piece of
twine, and tied one end of it to the tooth and the other end to the rear
of an express train. When the train started, Dummy ran along the
platform a short distance, and then dropped suddenly on his knees. The
engine whistled, and dummy cried, but the train took the tooth.