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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 145 There warn’t nuthin’ more said between us, but the next week you may judge o my emotions when I heerd howt the widdy was goin’ tu hire old Koster’s place. “Iwas the next tu Jona- than’s, and I knowed then, jest as well as I know now, that her only object was to be where she could set her cap at him. Sez I, tu myself, ‘‘It’s well fur that misguided man that she’s got a sister fur tu purtect him. Ef he was all alone, with- out nobody of the wimmen sect tu keep an eye ontu her, shed hev him in a month; fur men is weak-minded critters. Miss Dusenbury and them designin’ members o’ the sect can come round ’em in the most surprisin’. manner; and the older they be the softer they be, seems tu me, like mush-melons.” ‘ - Well, of course, the minnit Miss Moriarty come down she run over tu see me, and said how’'t we, bein’ such near neigh- bors, must be sociable, and howt me and my brother must come in often. ‘Thank ye,” sez I, ‘‘I’'ll come; but Jonathan ain’t no great o’ a visitor, ’tain’t likely I could persuade him.” She tried tu grin, but I could see she was awful discomfisca- ted. The next day she sent over tu know whether Mr. Grinder, ef he was goin tu market, wouldn't jest drive her tu town. I knowed he'd jump tu du it, but I took keer not tu tell him, and sent back by the gal, Mr. Grinder wasn't a goin, but how't Miss Charity would stop fur her in the gig when she went down. Biess you, when | got there the critter had a dretful spell o Eomicboo ¢s)