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 *vanced onto me, it wuz the landlord, Mr. Grabhull, I knowed him and he knowed me, and he wuz real polite, though he looked cross as a bear, I must say.

And he asked me if I wouldn't alight, and if he couldn't help me.

And, thinkin' I might as well, seein' I had got there, I did alight and git down, but refused his help, backin' out and gittin' down myself with some trouble, for the steps of the democrat are high, and I always use a chair to home to step down on, but wouldn't ask him for one if I had fell out, thinkin' we had made him enough trouble already. But the height wuz precipitous and I felt giddy, and, when at last my feet struck solid ground I sez, instinctively, and onbeknown to myself:

"Thank Heaven, as the man said, that my feet are once more on visey versey." And then, to let him know at once why we wuz there, I took my card of invitation out of my pocket, and sez:

"We have come to Miss Greene Smythe's Bazar for that Heathen."

"Oh, yes," sez he, "and you would like to see her, wouldn't you!"

And I sez, "Yes." And he turned towards a more secluded corner nigh to the lake, and I ketched sight of Miss Greene Smythe settin' in a hammock with three young men hoverin' round her like small planets round the sun. Them Danglers I had hearn on, I felt sure from their looks, they looked sort o' danglin' somehow. Two of 'em wore white flannel and the other dark-blue woolen, with light-yellowish colored shues on all on 'em, kinder slips like, one on 'em had a banjo in his hand and one on 'em seemed to be singin'.

She wuz dressed in white, with a great broad hat