The Grinder Papers — page 148: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS, 143 NUMBER EIGHTEEN. CHARITY SAVES JONATHAN FROM A DESIGNING WIDOW. How are ye, Miss Dusenbury? Purtyspry? Wall, consider- in’ ye always was kinder scrawny you du seem tolerable. How am I? Well, I’m jest able tu crawl. . My nerves is so shook. You know I said I’d be here last week, and what d’ye ’spose kept me? I’ve been back tu Peekskill tu.save my brother Jona- than from a designin’ widder. Who do I mean? You didn’t never know Miss Moriarty, did ye? Used tu be Carline Lump- kins. Warn’t married very young, and hadn’t old Moriarty come she couldn't get nobody else. He had some money, but she never had a decent gownd tu her back ’till she’d jawed and bothered him out of the world; but when that was done she spent the heft o’ what was left in bugles, and sot her cap for an- other. What du I mean? Why, land o’ Caanan, Miss Dusenbury, hain’t you never,seen that kind o’ mournin’? Looksas ef the individual that wears it was first dipped in gum, and then poked intu a bag o bugles. There warn’'t an inch o’ Miss Moriarty that hadn’t a bunch o’ ’em stuck on somehow. Commin’ up the road o’ Sundays she shined considerable cComicbooks co