The Grinder Papers — page 172: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 167 NUMBER TWENTY-ONE. CHARITY BECOMES A VICTIM, Eveliny Buckstaver, what I fetched up, and rectified her man- ners and her morals myself—that I thought was the moralest young woman I knowed. Eveliny Buckstaver, that went and warned me o’ the doin’so’ the Widder Moriarty. She that helped me to discomfiscate the snares o’ a designin’ female, and has said, a dozen times and more: ‘‘Oh, Miss Grinder, how any female 0’ common sense kin unite herself tu a member o’ the men sect, I can’tdiskiver.”” She that’s said them wordsas ef she meant em. Why, it’s enough tu make any indiwiddle’s hair stand oneend. Mune riz up like wires when I fust knowed it. Last Saturday, while I was a-settin’ in Mirandy’s parlor, there come a knock at the door, and the help comes in, and sez she: ‘“<There’s a person tu the door wants tu see Miss Grinder, by the name o’ Eveliny Buckstaver.” “Lor!” sez I. ‘‘Eveliny! Well,’ show her in.” In she comes and I shakes hands, (Oh, the nasty, yaller, scrawny critter, how she deceived me!) And sez she: ““ How are ye, Miss Grinder?” ‘*Tu be crawlin’,” sez I. ‘‘What fetches you down?” | Gomichboo cS (E()