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268 THE GRINDER PAPERS. had a basket. We had ham, and biled eggs, and custards, and pies, and cake, and root beer ; and Miss Pepper she took along a couple o’ blanket-shawls, fur fear it should blow up cold fur the baby and Amazonia, the eldest gal, who is a hand fur hevin’ chills. — We got intu a Eighth aveny car, and took the children ontu our laps. Up comes the conductor. ‘‘What’s the taxes?” sez Mr. Blinksop. Sez he, ‘‘ Four growed people and five children—full price fur the three biggest, and three cents fur the smallest.” Sez Mr. Blinksop, ‘‘Sha’n’t pay nuthin’ fur the young ‘uns.” Sez I, ‘‘No, indeed—don’t you go and du any sich green thing, Mr. Blinksop.” - Sezthe conductor, ‘ Beda get off, then.” Sez we, ‘‘ We sha'n't * Finally we Senin and paid half price fur all the young ‘uns. “Iwas an awful fib, though, tu say Amazonia warn't only nine and a half, fur she’s goin on thirteen. We rid along a spell quite comfortable. Then there come a reg lar squash o’ folks intu the car, and ’twas all we could do tu keep our baskets from bein’ oversot, and the young ’uns mur- dered; and one very interestin’ young man sot aside Mr. Blink- sop, and entered intu conversation with him. Said ’twas per- fectly nefarious o the company not tu run more cars, and hoped he didn’t incommodate nobody. Se _ Mr. Blinksop said os at all,” and interduced the subjict of =.) _ » - ~~" te a —S —s*, 2 oe ‘tin a comicbooks.c