The Grinder Papers — page 254: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 249 Jest stand still a minite. Now the light falls onto you, you look jest like him. Ain't yer name Morgan? No, its Brown? La! Now, mebbe your maternelate rela- tionship was o’ the name o' Morgan? Jest try tu think. You must be o’ the famerly. You’ve got a yaller complectical look. So had they; and you've got a wart ontu yer nose; so hev they some on ‘em. * And yer inclined tu be scraggy; they airtu. Him that you look most like is Jenkins Morgan. Hewas the awfulest character I ever knowed. Fust he robbed his boss o’ twenty dollars ; and then he ran off with the wife o Jimmenny Pipkin ; and arter that he embezzled suthin’, and was sent tu Sing Sing for’t; finally, ‘twas heerd howt he was hung. When you go hum ask yer ma whether Jenkins Morgan warn’t a relationship, and tell her what you’ve heerd consarnin’ him. She’il feel tu be interest- ed. There—a-hangin’ up ontu a hook is the thing what appears the nearest tu my idees 0’ anumberill. Fetchitdown. Green! Well, green is a nice color—good fur the eyes, tu, they say. What's the charge? Weil, fur say tew-and-a-half. I won't pay no secha price. Iainttu be taken in. Calkerlate I won't be suited. Well, here I sot till [ be. I’m goin’ o’ a journey, and there's no tellin’ how useful numberills is at sech times. You put ‘em upef it rainsand tu keep orf the sun—and you can hook conductors with ’em—and pull the check strings, and poke folks you want tu speak tu. Then getting through a crowd you kin make your way better’n by scrougin’, fur number- ills hurt worse’n elbers, and if any one was tu durst insult ye by Gomicboo “S mn