The Grinder Papers — page 100: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS, 95. NUMBER TWELVE. CHARITY .IS ECONOMICAL, Sence I’ve come to York the thing that’s .flabbergusted me most (I don’t mind tellin’ you, Mrs. Lemon, now we're takin’ a quiet cup o’ tea together), has been the fashions.- i can’t get at em. They look plain enough, but there’s allus a mystery connected with ’em. di he i Now, there’s the hair. Du you suppose it grows nat’ral, sort o standin’ on eend, in York, and all frizzled, or do they du it? Du it, hey. Well, what they want tu look like colored folks, that hain’'t had time to use the fine-tooth comb, for, I don’t know, Well, along when | fust come they wore bonnets without no crowns tu ‘em; and then, jest as I got mine cut out, they've took to wearin’ the curiousest kind of a bugle tu the back. The hull affair looks more like a tin puddin’-case, with the cover lifted; than anythin’ else; and do all I would, mine wouldn't stick up so. rue Well, altogether I’ve tried and tried to be fashionable, until my brains is wore out, and yet I heerd one o’ the helps (1m Gomicboo €oO “S mn ;