SCOTCH COURTSHIP.
Surely never was a declaration made in quainter fashion, saviog perhaps by the Scotch beadle who led the manee housemaid to the churchyard, and, pointing with bis finger, stammered, "My folk lie there Mary; wad ye like to lie there?" It is plain the notion did not scare her, any more than it did the Galloway girl who when Jock, coming into the kitchen while she was preparing breakfast, said, " I think 111 marry ye, Jean 1" answered, " I wad be muckle obleeged to ye if ye wad !" and bo concluded the bargain ; not even stipulating like another ready lassie on accepting as sudden an offer, " But ye maun gi'e me my dues o' courtin 1 for a' that, Jamie." — Chamben's Journal.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1505, 18 September 1880, Page 27
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124SCOTCH COURTSHIP. Otago Witness, Issue 1505, 18 September 1880, Page 27
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