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THE GRINDER PAPERS. — 25 NUMBER THREE. MISS CHARITY GRINDER VISITS BENJAMIN CLOOT’S FOLKS. How are you, Peggy? Didn't tell you I was comin’ to give you a pleasant surprise. I’m stoppin’ reglar to Cousin Sarah's, ‘but I’m goin’ about visitin’. How’s your ma? *Washin’, eh? Well la! I allers used to say Mis$ Cloot was allers washin’ when ‘she wasn’t bakin’. I find she hain’t changed a mite, How are weall? Well I’m to be crawlin’, and brother’s amazin’ smart for hisage. Hain’t hadarheumatiz yet. He's the oldest of the family, you know—twenty years my senior. Howsshoemakin’? Gladtohear it’s good. Ishall give Ben an order for a pair of them long-legged boots before I go. Law, now, you ain't got up in tais world like Sary’s compan- ion, hev you? He's made a fortune, and lives in the biggest house I ever sot foot in, with a lot of darkies to cut around and bother. As for workin’, I'd do all the bilin’ of ’em the week through in one day, and like the exercise. But Sary says to be fashionable you’ve got to hev any number o’ helps, and that culled persons is more stylish. You don’t visit, IL hear. Lor’, you’d oughter. When he sot up business your grandfather lent him the money. You aint ww GComicboo “S Go