The Grinder Papers — page 219: what you’re looking at

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

ma. THE GRINDER PAPERS. NUMBER TWENTY-SIX. CHARITY IS THE CAUSE OF A DUEL. As a gineral thing I don’t consider how’t a boardin’-house is proper fur a lady that ain’t as yet united intu the holy bonds 0 matrimony, but I’ve been obligated tu go tu one. ‘There’sa nat’ral unhosperbility in Yorkers, and jest at present the hefto’ . them I know is tu mad tu stop with, anyway, so I’ve took board. It’s very agreeable here, and there’s several gentlemen o the greatest intilectability. The only fault I find with ‘em is they _ will be so pinted in their intentions tu me. Can't so much as look at the salt but they parse it, and as fur butter, I’ve hed tew plates offered me at once. Not that the landlady would hev none handed tu nobody ef she could help it, I do believe. Tew the right o’ me sets Perfesser Huffin, and tu the left there’s Doctor Optic, and oppersite there’s a very fine elderly gentleman of the name of Mister Brown, Esquire—I seen it on a letter, and ollers make use o' the titles, though the rest don’t; and them three is each tryin’ tu cut the other out. Makes me quite confused, sometimes, and the landlady, Miss Butler, hoppin’ mad. You see, like the heft o’ widdys, she sottin’ her cap fur 2 s ee + ~~ ee ed comicbooks.co