Elliotts story was a sad one.
Are expert in Mechanical Dentistry, he had lived happily in a big city with his Wife and little daughter. Supper time came one night and they had not come home. He went out on a search and found them, both dead, beneath their overturned car. He tried to drown his sorrow – went to pieces entirely & where I met him, spent his days trapping his evenings making home brew – a liquor which, when poured into a spoon, and lit, would burn dry. Pure alcohol, or rather, impure alcohol. “Rotgut.” When sober, he was a good Dentist and, in fact, pulled a tooth for me as well as any Dentist could have done it.
