The Grinder Papers — page 134: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 129 house, and Araminty has the young man I disapprove of callin’ on her; and Washington Jefferson smokes cigars every time I eo out, and Mr. Brisket, he hain’t time to go.” ‘“Tawful suz!” sez I, ‘‘what did ye think o’ movin’ fur?” Sez she, ‘‘Why, Mr. Brisket don’t only get nine hundred a year, and this here home is riz tua thousand, Of course, if we was tu live here, we couldn’t calkerlate tu pay the rent at all.” “Well,” sez I, ‘* York folks is all gone crazy together, I reck- on. Tell youwhat [lldu. Jl goahouse-huntin’ for ye, Tl jest hev my things fetched here, and it won’t be no trouble. I like tu see how folks lives.” So that’s the way 1 come tu be a house-huntin’, % %% % me x % ‘‘How many rooms did you say you had tu Jet, mum?” ‘Second floor and back basement.” ‘Oh, well, I’d like tu see em.” “Can't until ten.” : ‘‘Oh, pshaw! I've heerd jest how I'd be treated, but I ain’t tu be put of. Excuse me fur goin’ up fust. Land o’ Liberty! ye needn't look somad. Isthisthe parlor? ‘Tis, hey? Well, I’ve seen dirty paint, but never the equal o’ this here? Don't you never scrub it? Well, I reckon ’twill come clean, so that don’t make no difference. The paper ain’t so bad. Whose portrait is that?) Yourn? Dutell. Why, I should a” thought some good-lookin’ woman sot for it. It’s got real good clothes on tu, but I suppose you've got them fur best. If ’tain’t a im- pertinent question, where C1 you keep clothes in this place? I Eomichboo ¢s)