. Highways and byways of the South. s house nights and hidin the fields daytimes. Her pappy had two men keepa watch on the house, but they was more in sympathywith her than him, and they never could see anythingsuspicious. Father said he thought he and motherbetter get married and done with it, and mother said On the Banks of the Ohio 209 she was wilHng to leave the decidhig with her olderbrother Stephen. * Whatever Stephen says, Ill do,she said. So they had Stephen come and told himhow things were, and he put his hand in his pocketand took out a handful of change and gave to her, andsaid, Her
. Highways and byways of the South. s house nights and hidin the fields daytimes. Her pappy had two men keepa watch on the house, but they was more in sympathywith her than him, and they never could see anythingsuspicious. Father said he thought he and motherbetter get married and done with it, and mother said On the Banks of the Ohio 209 she was wilHng to leave the decidhig with her olderbrother Stephen. * Whatever Stephen says, Ill do,she said. So they had Stephen come and told himhow things were, and he put his hand in his pocketand took out a handful of change and gave to her, andsaid, Here, May, go ahead ! Then she and father got in a canoe and wentdown to Portsmouth, sixty miles. It was requiredthem times to have their marriage intentions advertisedfrom the pulpit by a minister of the gospel for tendays. But after that they was married, and then theypaddled home. Grandpaw Fuller never could forgivethat runaway wedding for a long time, but he didfinally, and he got to think more of father than anyson-in-law he Rafts on a Tributary IX A VIRGINIA WONDER
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