The Grinder Papers — page 247: what you’re looking at

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242 THE GRINDER PAPERS. 0’ a person 0’ my magnitude o’ mind. Ain’t you ashamed o’ yerself! Come, now—I’m waitin’ fur you tu come out!” He didn’t say nuthin’, but he retreated further back, so’t nuth- in only his head was visible, and there he stopped. "Twas tu fur tu go in arter him; so, seein’ a gentleman ina white cravat on the risin’ slope o’ a hill, I lifts up my voice and hollers. ‘Mister reverend gentleman up there, please tu hurry down,” sez I. ‘‘It’s a case 0’ life and death.” Down he comes in a hurry. ‘‘Dear, dear!” sez he. ‘‘ What has happened?” b ‘‘ Feller-de-spree,” sez I. . rasey?, séz he. “Tt’s pecooliar that one o’ your callin’ shouldn’t understand langwidge, sir,’ sez I. ‘‘ Feller-de-spree means self-susinside.” Sez he, ‘‘Ah! I comprehend. But where—who?” I pints tu the head jest appearin’ on the water. “There,” sez I. “I’ve tried my power o oratic in vain. "Tain’t tu be expected how’t you’// succeed that way ; but you, | bein’ 0’ the male sect, might tuck up your trowsaloons and go in and fetch him out.” | Sez he, ‘‘Yes; but let us try persuasion fust. My friend, don't you know you are duin’ very wrong?” The head answered up quite smart: b ‘‘T’m only duin’ what others du,” sez he. ‘Many an onfortunate wretch has done the same,’ 3 ‘Sez the dominy; ‘‘but they're a-burnin’ on’t in brimstun now. ” is ne 7M comicbooks.com