COURTING TIMES.
"Aw. tliem courtin' times! AVell it's no use tryin' To tell what they were, and time is ilyin' But you know how it is—the father prctendin' He never sees nothin', and the mother menclin', Or a grippiu' the Bible and spellin' a tex, And a eyeia' us now and then over her specs. And Betsy and me sittin' bacli in the chimbley, And her a clickin' her needles so nimbly, And me looldii' straight in on Id Anthony's lace, And a stealin' my arm round Betsy's wais'. Aw, the shy she was ! And when Anthony said, ' Now, childher, it's time to be goin' to bed. 'then Betsy would say, as we all of us m, ' I wonder what sort, of a night it is 1' Or,—'Never mind, father, I'll shut the door,' And shut it she did, you may sure ; Only the way she done it, d'ye see ? I was outside, and so was she I "
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1527, 21 November 1873, Page 21
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158COURTING TIMES. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1527, 21 November 1873, Page 21
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