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"I'm going, Pete," she whispered. "Not yet. It's only a taste of the salt from the sea," said Pete. "The moon's not out many minutes." "Why, you goose, it's been gone these two hours. This isn't Jupiter, where it's moonlight always." "Always moonlight in Jubiter, is it?" said Pete. "My goodness! What coorting there must be there!"
Here's your young man come coorting! Mizzle, my girl!" Jude winced at the words. Courting in such a businesslike aspect as it evidently wore to the speaker was the last thing he was thinking of. He was going to walk with her, perhaps kiss her; but "courting" was too coolly purposeful to be anything but repugnant to his ideas.
Sir Maunder Meddleby thought for a while, or, at any rate, meant to be thinking, ere ever he dared to deliver himself of all his weighty judgment. "I've a-knowed she, my Lord Witcher, ever since her wore that haigh. A purty wanch, and a peart one. But her wanteth the vinish of the coort. Never do no good wi'out un, whan a coomth, as her must, to coorting."
"I hope there's no more coorting in it," says Nancy; "God knows we're tired of their kissing and marrying." "Were you always so?" says Ned, across the fire to her. "Behave yourself, Ned," says she; "don't you make me spake; sure you were set down as the greatest Brine-oge that ever was known, in the parish, for such things." "No, but don't you make me spake," replies Ned.
"No, then, indeed I didn't, darling; and glad enough he was to be axing me." "Well, and musn't I be the same?" "Oh! in course; but, Miss Feemy, the Captain's been up here coorting at Ballycloran now these six months; sure he axed you before this, Miss Feemy?"
It was niver that I staid there a night coorting the same that she didn't smash her shillaleh to smithereens over me head. Do yees obsarve that? asked Mickey, removing his hat, and displaying a scar that extended half way across his head. 'I don't see how any one can help seeing that. 'Well, that was the parting salute of Bridget, as I started for Ameriky.
Some of them were ripping up ould sores against one another as they went along; others, particularly the youngsters, with their sweethearts behind them, coorting away for the life of them, and some might be heard miles off, singing and laughing; and you may be sure the fiddler behind my uncle wasn't idle, no more nor another.
"Very frequently that is, not to say so frequently but on one or two important occasions. I mind the time when I was coorting Bridget O'Flaherty and Mollie McFizzle, in the ould counthry. Both of 'em was fine gals, and the trouble was for me to decide which was the best as a helpmate to meself.
Now, young couple, you're married together, You're married together, You're married together, You must obey your father and mother, And love one another like sister and brother I pray, young couple, you'll kiss together! "And you may be sure this part of the marriage is not missed, any way." "I doubt," said Andy Morrow, "that good can't come of so much kissing, marrying, and coorting."
"But we both naad sleep," he mused, as he threw down his torch, and made his way back by the dull glare of the expiring camp-fire. "We both lost considerable last night, and a chap can't kaap reg'lar hours any more than he can when he's coorting three lassies at the same time, and thrying to kaap aich from suspecting it.
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