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To that pleasing duty he addressed himself the evening after his arrival. "The young gentleman's goin' a courtin', I calc'late," was the remark of the Deacon's wife when she saw what a comely figure Mr. Clement showed at the tea-table. "A very hahnsome young mahn," the Deacon replied, "and looks as if he might know consid'able. An architect, you know, a sort of a builder.
"'Cook, says I, 'I'll go along o' you. "With that the cook fell to on the dishes, an' 'twasn't long afore he was ready to clean hisself; which done, he was ready for the courtin'. But first he got out his dunny-bag, an' he fished in there 'til he pulled out a blue stockin', tied in a hard knot; an' from the toe o' that there blue stockin' he took a brass ring.
"What girl?" he demanded hoarsely. Steelman looked blandly innocent. "Didn't you know, Dug? Maybe I ought n't to 'a' mentioned it." Fingers like ropes of steel tightened on the wrist, Brad screamed. "Don't do that, Dug! You're killin' me! Ouch! Em Crawford's girl." "What about her and Sanders?" "Why, he's courtin' her treatin' her to ice-cream, goin' walkin' with her. Didn't you know?"
Now, I hain't been a-raftin' logs down to the settlemints o' Kaintuck fer nigh on to twenty year fer nothin', An' I know gallivantin' is diff'ent with us mountain fellers an' you furriners, in the premises, anyways, as them lawyers up to court says; though I reckon hit's purty much the same atter the premises is over. Whar you says "courtin'," now, we says "talkin' to."
My sister-in-law's brother nice young chap 'e was too fell in with a girl that wasn't the right one fer 'im no clarss like, but 'e wouldn't 'ear a word agen 'er. So my sister-in-law thinks of a plan. She arsks both 'er brother an' the young woman 'e was courtin' to go and spend their 'olidays with 'er at the seaside.
"WELL," began Uncle Bob, "hit wuz all erlong er de jay bird, jes ez I wuz tellin' yer. Yer see, Mr. Jay Bird he fell'd in love, he did, 'long o' Miss Robin, an' he wuz er courtin' her, too; ev'y day de Lord sen', he'd be er gwine ter see her, an' er singin' ter her, an' er cyarin' her berries an' wums; hut, somehow or udder, she didn't pyear ter tuck no shine ter him.
And then YOU ups and objects to the hull thing, and allows that courtin' in school, even among engaged pupils, ain't proper." The master turned his eyes with some uneasiness to the face of Cressy's father. It was heavy but impassive. "I don't mind tellin' you, now that it's over, what happened. The trouble with me, Mr. Ford, is I ain't kam! and YOU air, and that's what got me.
On the 27th of June Jusserat Khan sent on the Nawab's order by the English wakil, or agent, to Mr. Becher, the English Chief, and informed him of the capture of Fort William and the flight of Mr. Drake. Thinking this was merely a trick to frighten them into surrender, the Dacca Council requested Mr. Scrafton, third in Council, to write to M. Courtin, chief of the French Factory, for information.
She whisked the biscuits into the oven and then proceeded, "Billy air kinder new to this business, but bein' as it's my fifth I'm kinder used to it. Billy an' me done got ma'id yesterday." "Got what?" "Ma'id! I'm his wedded wife. He done come down to Jefferson County courtin', an' bein' as I done buried my fo'th jes' las' year I up'n says yes as quick as a flash.
You're the thief Levi West you come here and stole my daddy from me ye did. You make me ruin myself to pay what oughter to been mine then ye ye steal the gal I was courtin', to boot." He stopped and his lips writhed for words to say. "I know ye," said he, grinding his teeth. "I know ye! And only for what my daddy made me promise I'd a-had you up to the magistrate's before this."
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