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...haven't got nuthin' agin the gintlemin at the college and I don't mind, tillin' yer a few things. The gintlemin's always pretty good to us ; we gits poor pay and if now and thin we takes a few things, yer know, of no rale value, why who kin blame the loike o' poor us? We've got ter live somehow, yer knows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodies. | 1/23/1885 | See Source »

...gits rale tasty sometimes, sor, in the arranging o' the gintlemin's rooms. There's a hilthy rivalry amongst us too, sor. We thinks ourselves mighty lucky if we kin git inter Holworthy. Last month, sor, I was meself promoted from College House ter Hollis. This rivalry, sor, is a hilthy thing, We all takes a great deal 'o pains in what we does. Why, sor, I makes some 'o my rooms looks jest so sweet'nd pretty loike that yer wouldn't know' em, sor. I have a way o' leavin' the dust on things, sor, a purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodies. | 1/23/1885 | See Source »

...very kind that you is, sor. I've no more ter say, sor, exceptin" that sometimes the gintlemin is rale ganerous now. Onct, sor, I found a table drawer open just wide enough fer the loike o' me ter see in, and in there, sor, was a five dollar bill, sor. I knowed that it wus put there fer me ter see, sor, and so I tuk it, sor, jest as any xise woman'd have did. It kept me and me five chillers a hull week, sor. The nixt day afther that, sor, I got promotion. That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodies. | 1/23/1885 | See Source »

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