The Grinder Papers — page 176: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 171 Eveliny she larfed, Sez he, ‘‘I was mistook. I didn’t care much for her.” “Well,” sez I, ‘‘I knowed it.” Then he and Eveliny both larfed hearty. Thinks me, ‘‘It’s only goin’ tu prove how changeable the men sect is. He adored the widdy once,” but he didn’t say nothin’. Arter a while Eveliny said she was anxious to go, and they left me tu Mirandy’s, and went away tu take her bundles tu her cousin’s, where she was a stoppin’. I didn’t see nothin’ of her for a few days, but Jonathan called in the evenin’ twice. Before the most horrid o’ cMamities folks is ginerally carm, I didn’t expect nothin’. Islept and took my reg’lar meals like a innocent lamb before it’s slaughtered. Sabberday, a young gal that’s sewin’ for Mirandy, come intu my room tu ax me tu lace her stays. Sez she, ‘‘I’m goin’ tu our church, to-day—there’s to bea 3’ 99 weddin’. ‘*Goodness!” sez I. ‘‘T’ll go tu, then.” Sez she, ‘‘Du, Miss Grinder, weddin’s is so sweet.” ‘They air warnin’s,” sez I. ‘‘I go asa matter o’ duty.” “Oh!” sez she, and grins. I was mad enough to box her ears; but they’re all alike, the hull of “em. We took a car and went. We wasn’t very early, and the church was full, so’t we had to take a back seat. ? ‘*Can’t see much o’ the bride,” sez I, Eomicboo cS €oO