These minds and these teeth do very well for a time, but after a while they become unable to perform the services which will be demanded of them, and they are shed, or at least they ought to be.

Sometimes, of course, they have to be extracted." "Nonsense, doctor," said the young lady, smiling in spite of herself, "you cannot extract a mind." "Well, perhaps not exactly that," he answered, "but we can help it to be absorbed and to disappear, and so make a way for the strong, vigorous mind of maturity, which is certain to succeed it.

All this has happened and is happening to you, Miss Dora.

You have lost your milk mind, and the sooner it is gone the better.

You will be delighted with the one that succeeds it.