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"I'm sorry, Madam, but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth."

"Twenty dollars! Why, I understood you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work!"

"Yes, but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared four other patients out of the office."

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