The Grinder Papers — page 258: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 253 NUMBER THIRTY-ONE. MISS GRINDER IS IMPOSED UPON, Well, Idunno, Arminty; fur my part I haven’t no confidence in auctions. Asa general thing I think yer apt tu be deceived, and took in, no matter how much o sagacity o’ mind you may hev by nature. Facto the matter is such a gift o’ the gab is purty hard tu keep up with. The hearin’ don’t travel as fast as the sound, which was how a scientifical lecterer, that come tu Peekskill onct, ef I don’t disremember, accounted for thunder and lightnin’. Don’t remember the Rev. Mr. Thumper, du ye? He preached fur us up there a spell. He was extremely impressin’ in his manner. Deacon Piunket said he looked precisely like St. Paul. Dunno how he knew how he looked, but perhaps he’d seen his daggerty pe. Deacon Plunket has traveled a good deal. Been tu Australy, and that, ef I remember, is handy tu Pales- tine, where I calkerlate Saint Paul lived ‘considerable, and arter Cousin Jones died we found more’n twenty daggertypes round among -his things, so prob'ly it might hev been the same with Paul, Eomichboo <S aa ;