All this town needs to be a big place is inhabitants.

What you ought to do now it to settle down for good, an' get married.

There's some purty fine women in this town that ain't picked up yet, but they won't last long, they way they're goin'.
Somebody gets married every couple of months." Eliph' looked up with a smile.

Jim Wilkins did not know he had advised the very thing he meant to do.
"I've thought some about it," said Eliph', "'most everybody's getting married now-a-days." "It's the popular thing 'round here," said Jim.

"Look across the street, yonder.