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"Aye," said one, "Jock McDonald has a sair time wi' that wife o' his. They do say they're aye quarrelin'." "It serve' him richt," said another feelingly. "The puir feckless creature marrit after coortin' only eight year. Man, indeed, he had nae chance to ken the wumman in sic a short time. When I was coortin' I was coortin' twenty year."
He knew that, soon or late, he'd find the yin who meant mair to him than a' the ither lassies i' the world put together. And it was sae. She came to toon, a stranger. She was a wee, bonnie creature, wi' bricht een and bright cheeks; she had a laugh that was like music in your ears. Half the young men in the toon went coortin' her frae the moment they first clapped een upon her.
"Bridget," Sullivan said, turning to his wife, "I tell you that I came upon that undutiful daughter of ours coortin' wid the son of the man that murdhered her uncle, my only brother coortin' wid a fellow that Dan M'Gowan here knows will be hanged yet, for he's jist afther tellin' him so." "You're ravin', Jerry," exclaimed his wife.
"I thank you for your good wishes, Caterine; but what is it you would say?" "Is it true, Miss Alice, that you and Mr. Woodward are coortin'?"
It makes him so mad he could set fire to me." He laughed so explosively that the horses started. "He's coortin'. Yes, siree, but he don't like to have it advertised." "Who's the poor woman?" asked Mrs. Annie in distress. "Auntie Jinit McKerracher! They say she throwed the dish-water on him the last time he went sparkin'. Hi! young shaver!"
It ran that her son Ned was "after seein' Denis O'Meara down beyant, and that he was doin' finely, next door to himself again: and that the people in the Town did be sayin' he was coortin' Mary Anne Neligan, the people's daughter that he was lodgin' wid a terrible fortin she was said to have and that he'd be very apt to be takin' her along wid him prisintly when his lave was up." Mrs.
Before the starving pair had time to get fairly on their legs, Daniel strode into the camp and seized Elspie in his arms. We need not repeat what he said, for it was not meant to be made public, but no such reticence need trouble us in regard to old Duncan. "Hoot! Taniel," said he, somewhat peevishly, "keep your coortin' till efter breakfast, man!
"The hussy," replied the father, "it's the supper she ought to have ready, instead of coortin' wid sich a larned vag Heavens above me! What ails my child? Susy! Susy, alanna dhas! what's over you? Oh, I see how it is," he continued "I see how it is! This accounts for her low spirits an' bad health for some time past! Susy, rouse yourself, avourneen! Sure I'm not angry wid you!
"Poor Joe were stood i' th' doorway, ye know, an' he sighed an' licked his lips, th' poor chap, but he didn't get nought. Miss Hep. didn't fancy nobody but me." "Thou'll be for coortin' her next," suggested somebody humorously. "Nay, nay," said an odd little short man with comically uplifted eyebrows. "'T wouldn't be no use coortin' Margaret Heptonstall.
Willie Logan, as John knew, was "coortin' hard" and laying up trouble for himself by his diverse affections; and Aggie Logan, forgetful, perhaps, of the rebuff that John had given to her childish offers of love, had lately taken to hanging about the street when John was due to pass along it. She would pretend not to see him until he was close to her.
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