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+ - =. PJ ‘ : - * * 3 . i m*VF er * Me ya 3 s THE GRINDER PAPERS. 431 breaktwist so late? Husband was out last night, and ain't up, I suppose? He don’t drink nur nuthin’, does he? Sartinly not! Lawful suz! you needn't perk upso—the heft o’ the men sect dues. That's the reason I hain’t never united myself in the bounds o’ wedded bliss. Didn't calkerlate ‘twas pleasant to hev nobody comin’ in whenever they was disposed, and mebbe goin’ tu bed with ther bootson. Kurnel Jingle used to hev his spurs, tu, but he was a millingtary ossifer, and them is wuss than most o the men sect as fur as mortals goes, Put another pinch o’ tea in, fur I don’t like weak slops, and I'll take another cup, since you re So pressing. ‘“‘Any more rooms? Kitching, dining-room, parlor, bed- rooms, ef you call ’em so—I should say rat-holes. What's this here? It belongs tu the apartments, but I’d better not go in? Why not? “You wouldn’t advise me tu? Why, land o’ liberty! I mean tu see the hull before I go. Door kinder sticks, hey? There it goes ‘*Oh !—ah !—ooh !—my!—gracious goodness! ‘Tmere’s a indelicate man in there a bathin’ hisself. “Oh! ah! What doin’s! You told me.not to go in, be- cause Mr. Brown was performing his toilet. Land o liberty! why didn’t you say so? I sha’n’t get over this here in a hurry. Ain’t you got a glasso’ wine nor nuthin tu resusitate my spirits? Fetch a fan, du. “Well, I did think better o’ yer delicacy. Youd orter be Gomieboo “S (elo)