The Grinder Papers — page 267: what you’re looking at

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262 THE GRINDER PAPERS. NUMBER THIRTY-TWO. — MISS GRINDER’S THERMOMETER IS TAMPERED WITH. Ef I know’d: how amazin’ hot a climate York was, I’d never ha’ left Peekskill. Disagreeable as Jonathan’s conduct has made it fur me ther, I’d hev staid. I don’t believe one word o’ what they say about its bein’ unusual. They only du it fur tu keep strangers here and get their custom. As near as I can remember, the thermometer was a thousand and four below zero, which is bilin’ p’int, ye know, the last hot- test day, and it ain't no wonder ther was so much immortality in the city. | I noticed in the Herald tew columns o’ habeus corpus, and only one birth. It seemed singular in such a great city, and that one o’ English nativity. London papers please copy. It's dreadful weather, but it takes appetites away, and so the boarding-house folks likes it. Though I make a p’nt o’ eatin’ all I kin, out o’ spite. , Yes, the thermometer was horrid; and that puts me in mind © a mysterious circumsance connected with one I had a num- ber o’ years ago, when I was quite a gal. « comicbooks.com