mattie-baiting

Updated: May 8, 2025

The Judge had dropped the book now; his senses were alert to the game which never grew old to him "Mattie-baiting" he had named it. "Mattie," he said, "with a pretty and marriageable, dowered and maiden niece on your hands, a new era is opening in your life of passionate self-sacrifice. It used to be orphan children and neglected wives of farm hands. Now it is presentable but neglected bachelors.

Will Irwin - The Readjustment