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Al Capone — Part 13
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up our nostrils. Fortunately, we have no head cold. Then, placing a wooden
spatula on our tongues, he pesra down our throat. We feel like romitting.
He remarks thet we aro suffering from tonsilitia or sore throat. . » one guess
is as good as another!
We watch Capons subject himself to these examinations. Yes,
the inmate is mors thoughtful of this petiexct. He is a famous character. He
4s a millionaire! and one cannot insult or injure the feelings of a million-
aire, even though he fa a convict in the penitentiary.
4 cheery word speeds Capone out with us and te the cheat and
lung examination, We again disroba, This time the upper garments are renored.
We step upon a seals. We atep off. That's it, now, take a deep breath. . «
Wow blew out. all right, another! That's it! The physician bidding us inhale
and exhale mysteriously taps our chest. It seams like a lodge initiation. We
are passed through aa the doctor in charge calls off tc an inmate the asnort-
ment of ailments the various men suffer.
Capone is next. Ha ateps upon the scale. The doctor looks
approvingly at the muscular figure with the overlapping belly, ‘limnph, he
bemphs, he'll not have that long on the food he'll get heres Capone is ax-
amined to eee if he has tuberculosis, affected lungs and what not. Wo, he
hasn't even appandicitis, ner any indication of getting it. Ee is ahead of
us as we enter the Dentel Clinic.
an, hell! Gotta give your name and oumber again? Seems as
though having 4t on your underwear, shirt and pants would be enough. But we're
forever being asked what it ig, Me tell the interne. He writes it on a chart
showing a set of uppor and lower teeth, He looks at our teeth and calls out:
"Pilling" "Cap" “Crown” “False” Missing" or whatever the
molars diaclosa to his experienced eyes. Another interne "x's" the different
symbols representing, the foregoing definitions. And we are through herel
"I guess that's about all," Capone rectures to remark
damm! oftens
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