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98 - THE GRINDER PAPERS. tu, but one young woman goes away ahead, with a shriek like a steam-engine, anda man (I judge by his voice, for it’s all down in his stomach) comes after her two words and two notes be- hind, as if he was a passenger tryin’ to catch up to the train and couldn’t; and the rest don’t seem to be very particular about anything but not pronouncing their words plain. Em/’ly and Mirandy say its splendid; for my part, I should think there’d be a judgment on ‘em for not lettin’ the congregation jine in. — Well, they was singin’ when I went in, and I went up the ~ aisle after a very nice young man, that’s took such a notion to ' me he always gets me a seat. Couldn't see, for my part, what | folks grinned for so. I wasn't the only one cum in late. He took me to Mirandy’s pew. She was asleep, and Em’ly was lookin’ at the young men; but when I whispered ‘‘shove up, and lemme in,” they both looked at me. And how they looked. ‘‘Ah,” says I, in a whisper, you see I kin be fashionable, too, if I like—the coil was the hardest; but I’m goin’ to wear it reg lar now.” They didn’t say nothin’, but they looked very curious. Seemed if Mirandy was going to faint. says I: ‘‘Ain’t you well?” Says she, in a whisper: ‘‘Go home; don't stay here no longer.” | SsaysI: ‘‘ Why?” Don't you see the people?” says she. And they were all grinning. . , - “at = : - . mr dl : ¢ r iJ ‘) . | - j ca 7, 8 i ; ey + * ? or - _i & ; 4 este, rr. ) 4 , 4 ae, \ ‘} : = A cael » sa = 44 a v 4 ov a ; |.) ‘ re phe Tae i Bey es oe “a ‘ i PRs, age |e