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I thought he was goin' a-coortin'. Hullo, Billy!" A bicycle wheeled round abruptly, and the rider alighted at the cottage door. A big young man, with the bronzed face which would have announced his recent return from the front, even had not his khaki uniform proclaimed the fact. "I thought I'd look 'ee up," he explained, shaking hands with his friend with a somewhat sheepish air.
"Ye 'd better bargain quick, if ye want any," spoke up an oldster. "Looks like squar's son was a-coortin' squar's daughter, an' mayhaps her money'll make old Squar Hennion less put tew it fer cash." "So Squire Meredith is n't popular?" "He'll find out suthin' next time he offers fer Assembly," asserted one of the group. "He 's a member of Assembly, is he?" questioned Evatt.
On the following afternoon, just at the time when young Thornleigh went a-coortin', and elderly Thornleigh took off its boots and coat, or put a clean white handkerchief over its cap, the better to enjoy its Sabbath snooze in the ingle-nook, Ted Wharton cocked his hat over his eye, put a posy in his coat, and set off to call on Margaret Heptonstall.
"W'en my Moggie an' me was a-coortin' we thought, an' said, it was too good to be true, an' so it was; leastwise it was too true to be good, for Moggie took me for better an' wuss, though it stood to reason I couldn't be both, d'ee see? an' I soon found her wuss than better, which " "Come, come, Joe Slag," cried Bob, "let's have none o' your ill-omened growls to-night. What brings you here?"
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