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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 259 —“Lor’,” sez Miss Samanthy, ‘‘it’s elegant; but they hain‘ nuthin’ on tu speak of.” Sez he, ‘‘ Bible picturs never has. Cotton was scarcer in the year one than in the year sixty-five.” ‘Ther hadn’t been no war,” sez she. “No,” sez he. ‘‘But you couldn’t expect nobody tu work niggers and run a. mill only for Adam and Eve.” ‘That's true,” sez she. | ‘‘Observe,” sez he—oh, the sarpint |—‘‘ Observe the cherubic amiability o’ Abel, and the affection o' his glances at his ma. Thus we was intended fur tu smile, the hull on us. See how modest and blushin’ Eve is. Don't need no words tu indicate that. The fust o women, in course, was sich. Why, your dominy will be inspirated by that ere pictur fur no eend o’ ser- mons, I hain’t a doubt. -There’s purity o the furst inhabitants o arth afore they had eat the apple. . That ther in Eve’s hand ain't one o the forbidden—it’s a golden pippin. It’s all inno- cence as yet. Why, your pastor ‘ud never be the man without that he’d be with that work o’ art. Besides, it’s an old master, - painted in Rome, nine thousand years or more ago, by Reubens, and copied by a Jady o’ taste, and from that copied by a German gentleman o talent, so’'t you've got high art and an old master fresh done up, as red and yaller as at first, a regular improve- ment on the original, and varnished until you kin see yer face in it. A durable article o high art, that can’t wear out. Now, that ll se!l for five hundred when it’s put up. ‘‘We've only got one hundred,” sez I. (Eo palicelexeye) “S m