STORY OF ODD COURTSHIP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7377, 1 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

STORY OF ODD COURTSHIP.

Marquette people are finding a reason for the romantic atachment of Mary Seymour for the aged guide, Henry Starnould, in the fattt that the love of the woods and of hunting and fishing is a part of her Seymour heritage.

The story of the courtship of Henry Starnould, backwoodsman, and Mary Led- * Seymour, aristocrat, is something more than ordinarily romantic. When the children of Horatio Seymour, jun., were old enough to endure the hardships of camp life the father engaged the services of Starnould as guide and general camp attendant. With his family, Mr Seymour made yearly excursions into the' wilds. When the arrangement with the guide was first made he was a man of 60 years, a widower with a family of children, all of whom were older than the girl who is now his wife. Mary Seymour, from the first, formed a strong attachment for the backwoodsman. She made of him a sort of hero, and he had a strong influence over her. For several years Starnould continued his services as guide for the Seymours. Nothing was thought of the girl's attachment for him beyond the idea that it was a mere liking. The age and stolidity of character of Starnould also lent themselves to the keeping of any suspicion out of the father's mind that there was anything like love between his young daughter and the veteran guide.