A patient thanking his dentist for pulling a tooth out and asking can he go and finish reading a magazine in the waiting-room. Reproduction of a drawing after H. Batchelor, 1928.

Dialogue includes: Patient. "Well, thanks very much for pulling that out. By the way, I hope you don't mind if I go back into the waiting-room for a bit. I rather want to finish a story in one of your magazines."