[The English Orphans by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookThe English Orphans CHAPTER VI 5/15
But I don't care now I've found some one who knows grammar.
How many _genders_ are there, child ?" "Four," answered Mary, who had been studying Smith. Instantly Sal seized Mary's hands, and nearly wrenching them off in her joy, capered and danced about the room, leaping over the cradle, and finally exclaiming, "Capital! You think just as I do, don't you? And have the same opinion of her? What are the genders, dear? Repeat them" "Masculine, Feminine, Neuter and Common," said Mary "O, get out with your _common_ gender," screamed Sal.
"_My_ grammar don't read so.
It says Masculine, Feminine Neuter and _Grundy_ gender, to which last but one thing in the world belongs, and that is the lady below with the cast iron back and India-rubber tongue." "Do you mean Mrs.Grundy ?" asked Mary, and Sal replied, "_Mrs. Grundy_? and who may Mrs.Grundy be? Oh, I understand, she's been stuffing you." "Been what ?" said Mary. "Excuse me," answered Sal.
"That's a slang term I've picked up since I've been here.
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