Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: October 1, 2025
Blithers sold her place to Cap'n Spooner; the youngest Waters girl run away with a music teacher; the court-house burned up last March; your uncle Wiley was elected constable; Matilda Hoskins died from runnin' a needle in her hand, and Tom Beedle is courtin' Sallie Lathrop they say he don't miss a night but what he's settin' on their porch."
At any rate Courtin found the remnants of his countrymen in despair, and in 1759 he wrote a letter to Clive and the Council of Calcutta, from which I quote one or two paragraphs:
The next day M. Fleurin, second of the French Factory M. Courtin was not well acquainted with the English language came to inform them that the Nawab of Dacca agreed that the ladies and gentlemen should be allowed to retire to the French Factory on M. Courtin giving his word that they would there await the orders of Siraj-ud-daula as to their future fate.
Well, he was courtin Sister Sall she was a real handsum lookin gall; you scarce ever seed a more out and out complete critter than she was a fine figur head, and a beautiful model of a craft as any in the state: a real clipper, and as full of fun and frolick as a kitten.
There was a sense in which the little man could sing. Where hye ye been a' dye? he would ask, and answer himself: I've been by burn and flowery brye, Meadow green an' mountain grye, Courtin' o' this young thing, Just come frye her mammie.
"We we can't go on being engaged, can we?" "No," said Tots with instant decision. "Shouldn't dream of borin' you to that extent. I've had enough of it myself as well." He uttered his pleasant, careless laugh. "I really don't wonder that my courtin' made you feel spiteful," he said. "I'm glad you're in favour of cuttin' it too." Ruth stared at him blankly. Was he laughing at her?
But I didn't know nothin' 'bout courtin'. Carline she wuz better qualified though, an' she made me ast Old Miss ef I couldn't hab her fer my wife. We didn't need no Bible nor preacher, nor sech foolishness in dem days. But when Old Miss wuz willin' we jus' dress up an' walk ober de place an' tell all de niggers we wuz married. Umph, umph! But I wuz proud dat day!
"And you'll still be my sweetheart, won't you, and go for walks with me?..." She withdrew her hand from his. "No, Henry," she said, "you an' me can't go courtin' no more!" "But why?" "Because I couldn't marry a man was afeard of things. I'd never be happy with a man like that.
"I don't like to be left alone with a gall, it's plaguy apt to set me a soft sawderin' and a courtin'. There's a sort of nateral attraction like in this world. Two ships in a calm, are sure to get up alongside of each other, if there is no wind, and they have nothin' to do, but look at each other; natur' does it.
"Three has got to get out for a bit, and leave one to do his courtin' and do it quick. I've got a pair of dice here. Three rounds, see? The low man to drop out on each round. The winner to keep the shack, and to pop the question while the other three camp on the shore. What do you say to it?" The three stared at Big Jack in a dead silence while the underlying significance of his words sunk in.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking