The Grinder Papers — page 187: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

182 THE GRINDER PAPERS. She kinder shrieks, and sot up, and sez she: “‘Oh, what has happened?” | Sez I, ‘*Don’t say nothin’, Keturah. Come intu my room and I'll tell ye.” She comes, white as a spook, and all shakin’. ““Oh!” sez she, ‘‘oh, du speak, quick !” sez I, ‘‘I was right about Mr. Chalker.” ‘“Hey?” sez she. Sez I, ‘‘Accident has throwed me in a sittywation fur tu hear a conversation betwixt him and another wicked critter. I’ve, overheerd a plot.” - “A plot in a respectable boardin’-house ?” sez she. Sez I, ‘‘ Yes, Keturah. Du you know anybody o’ the name o Eveliny that’s engaged tu a young man?” 3 Sez she, ‘‘Yes. There’s Miss Perkins, over the way.” Sez I, ‘‘ Has she a grandpa ?” Sez she, ‘She keeps house fur him.” Sez I, ‘‘It’s her.” Sez she, ‘‘ What’s her?” Sez I, ‘‘Mr. Chalker has had the young man she’s engaged tu kidnapped and sent tu sea, so’s to hev her marr’ some one else.” ‘How you talk !” sez she. ‘‘He sez so, ” sez I : ‘Cand, besides, the otner wretch is tu hide in the old gentleman’s room, and when he sees him kneel down tu say his prayers, come behind him and murder him. Arter that, they’re tu pison and stab a couple more—jest this comicbooks.com |