Mother Grogan’s Unpunctuated Rigmarole of Numerical Spangablasm

At the Paris Review Online.

 

Teaser quote: “Bill, sir? she said, halting. Well it’s seven mornings a pint at twopence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling. That’s a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir.”

 

[originally posted Wednesday 27 September 2017]