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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 125 makin’ Aim go; and we couldn't walk ten miles, and there wasn t no stage that night, and all we could du was tu go tu the tavern. : The lady that kep’ it, when she heerd my story, gin me her sympathy, and fetched out some brandy and water, and was quite motherly ; but nuthin’ couldn’tswage my woes nor the colonel’s. He sot with his head onto his hands, and every word she sed to comfort him he'd shake it, and say: ‘“Much obleeged, mum, but you don’t know my wife. Ef you had the pleasure o’ Miss Colonel Katermount’s acquaintance you'd understand my feelin’s.” | And as fur me, I shouldn’t hev expected nobody tu think nuthin’ o’ my moral rectitude ef I hadn’t gone intu the very worst o highsirikes, and kep’ intu ’em all night. ; Next mornin’, lo and behold! the snow was deeper than it hed been for ten years afore, and the hoss warn't able to budge, and the stage warn’t goin’ tu run, even as fur as the railway, un- til the next day, and there warn’t no vehicle tu be hed. Colonel Katermount tried to walk it, and got half froze, and. we was. in despair. ep , The landlady wept with me the hett o’ the day, and the colonel he tried to drown his sorrers in ale. It got intu his head, and they had tu put him tu bed at three in the arternoon. It did seem tu me I should gocrazy. ‘Thatnight I didnt sleep none, and when the stage come I was ready, and so was the colonel. The landlady was goin’ along, at our request, tu explain things, and the colonel was goin’ tu pay her for goin’, I sobbed so all (Eo palicel exeye) “S Go m