In the Wild?.
Away out on the wilds of Arkansas courtship^ampngst the negroes is a primitive and 'an amusing affair. He meets the dusky i maiden a few times, when he invariably 1 says ♦ f Hy?" and she answers, "Howdy?" I Then he calls on her one Sunday^, and [ aHer a "Few" rSmbinig" remarks he~smimes f round the p6int in' the following manner : " I<cok heah ! It^s time you got married." * : . " Nobody won't hab me." " I know bettah." "Ef yer knowed, what made yer ax me?" " Jis' ter see ef yer'd tell de txuf erbout it." "Wall. I did." "Didn't." • Did." "I knows somebody dat'U mair you." ■•"Whar?" "Right heah." '" Who, yo'se'f ? ' " Dats me." 'Oh, quit yo' foolishin'." " I'se in arnest." " Didn' think yo' wanted me." "But I doss. Whut yo' say?" j '* I'se ergreeable." Not a romantic dialogue, but generally effectual.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 79
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141In the Wild?. Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 79
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