The Grinder Papers — page 129: what you’re looking at

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a 124 | THE GRINDER PAPERS. “‘Serciety!” sez he. ‘‘I ain't a thinkin’ o’ them, but o’ Miss Colonel Katermount. Shes been bad enough when she hadn't no reason; what'll she be when she has ?” 33 ‘’Tain’t too late for tu repair our errer,” sez I. ‘‘Oh! drive back, du.” Sez he, ‘‘The difficulty is tu du it. Ef we're in the right road, I kin. Ef we ain't, how kin 1? Hows’ever I'll try.” So he turned the hoss, and away we galloped, most pitchin me out, when we hit agin stones, and the snow was fallin’, and it was pitch dark, and arter a while the old hoss tumbled, and down he come. Colonel Katermount got out and tried to boost him, but it warn't no use. ‘‘Here’s a awful state o’ things,” sez he. ‘‘ Dunno more’n the man in the moon where we be._ I’m goin’ down tu where I see a light, tu ask. Don't you be skeered, Miss Grinder.” When he’d said that he went away, and ’twas a quarter o’ an hour afore he came back. Then there was a man along o’ him, and he hed a lantern. ‘‘Hev you any notion where ite be?” sez he. “No,” sez I. ‘Ten miles from Peekskill,” sez he. ‘It’s the wrong road, and ef you hed the old hoss on his legs agin you couldnt get back till mornin’.” Then was heerd three awful groans, "Twas me expirin’, Well, they looked at the old hoss, and he was gin out—no comicbooks.com