The Grinder Papers — page 174: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. * What would you like tu see?” “A silk,” sez Eveliny. ‘Lor’,” sez I, ‘‘goin’ tu make a splurge!” Sez she, ‘‘I’d ortu hev a silk.” ‘‘Wall,” sez I, ‘‘p’raps so.” The young man sez?, ‘‘A black?” “No,” sez she; ‘‘ that’s too old-womanish.” He fotches out a blue, and a red, and a pink, and then a yal- ler, anda brown. He said the brown wasa ‘‘queer”’ color. thought so tu. ‘«But,” sez Eveliny, sez she, ‘‘I want suthin’ lighter.” Out he fetches some more, and she pitches on a kind of a pearl. ‘“Why,” sez I, ‘‘sho, you ain't goin’ tu get haf P Hain’tno wear intu it. You'll hev it dyed in six-months.” Sez she. ‘‘I sha’n’t wear it often.” > “Wall,” sez I, ‘‘ fling your money in the street, ef you like. "Tain’t my advice.” Well, she bought the dress, and the linin’, and the buttons, and, sez she, ‘‘I'll see a shawl.” When the young man heard that, he sent us up stairs, and ef Eveliny didn't buy a zie shawl. ‘“VYou air crazy, sez I. ‘‘Oh, no I ain't,” sez she. ‘‘You'll look like a bride, ” sez I, “‘Oh, get out!” sez she. ‘Vou will,” sez I. (E(6) mm boo “S mn