The Grinder Papers — page 188: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 183 minnit I disremember their names—and one on ’em is tu carry off Miss Perkins.” Sez Keturah, sez she, ‘‘You must be crazy, Charity; this here can’t be so.” Sez I, ‘‘Where’s the family Bible? I’m willin’ tu take my afterdavid on't.” Sez she, ‘‘It must be some horrid dream,’ awful thing not to hev nobody o’ the men sect tu rely ontu in this here emergency. I think ‘twas real mean o’ Mr. Kalsomine bs sez she. ‘‘Itsa fur tu run off when he knowed how females was sittiwated alone in the world.” Sez I, ‘‘Seein’ sich is the case, and us two tugether, I don’t think ‘twould be unproper for tu rouse up Dr. Bloonder and Mr. Meggs.” ‘“Perhaps not,’ sez she. ‘‘Come,”’ sez I. So arter she'd slipped on a mornin’ gownd, we went tu Dr. Bloonder’s room door. She knocks, and he cries: ‘«What’s-that ?” ‘‘Oh!” sez I, ‘‘excuse me, Dr. Bloonder. We shouldn’t trouble you at the dead o’ night ef ’twurn’t a case o’ life and death.” In a few minnits out he comes, and sez he: ‘Who's ill? Who is ill, my dear ladies?” Sez I, ‘‘It’s wuss than indispersition o’ the body.” ‘‘ Ah!” sez he. comicbooks;com —