One day when I asked John to tell me about his courting days, he answered gravely, putting his arms around the motherly shoulders of his wife:
"Why, I have just begun to court my wife. It takes a man a long time to get ready, and then the courting, to be well done, must never end, but continue throughout the long eternities."
Transcriber's Note:
Some obvious printer's errors have been corrected as seemed reasonable, such as certain punctuation errors (like omitted periods, periods to commas or semi-colons to commas, and some mismatched quotation marks). Some inconsistent or obvious spelling errors or typos within the text were also corrected (e. g. merily to merrily, cariages to carriages, we'l to we'll, acording to according, Stevvens to Stevens, Govenor to Governor, Congresss to Congress, cheeful to cheerful, rythm to rhythm, etc.).