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   > everybody has at least _one_ tooth out. It's quite the   
   > fashion."   
      
    JOEL: You know these loose teeth, always going out for a night on the town.   
      
   >   
   >         But Frisky would not let him try again.   
      
    CROW: C'mon, what's a little pain when you can make a childhood trauma that   
   lasts your whole life?   
      
   >   
   >         "I haven't heard that it was the fashion to have your   
   > lip pulled off," he said.   
      
     TOM: Frisky talks like Margaret Dumont fending off Groucho.   
      
   >                           "But I'll stay here a while," he   
   > added. He wanted to _see_ a tooth pulled, even if it wasn't   
   > his own.   
      
    CROW: Well, sure, who wouldn't?   
    JOEL: Tooth like that you're not going to see pulled every day.   
      
   >   
   >         "Do!" said Jimmy Rabbit. "And after you've seen how   
   > easily the thing's done, I've no doubt you will want me to   
   > 'tend to your case."   
      
     TOM: Why is there an apostrophe to start the word tend?   
      
   >                      He was very cheerful.   
      
     ALL: At first.   
      
   >   
   >         But Frisky Squirrel did not appear very happy.   
      
    CROW: Frisky's chosen to play his cards close to his vest.   
      
   >                                                        His   
   > lip pained him terribly.   
      
    JOEL: Surely that's better than paining him well?   
      
   [ End of Chapter 10 ]   
      
      
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