Boy as he was, for he was not yet eighteen, he suddenly and impetuously set out to see if he could not pick, from them, one for a wife.
Without delay he made his choice, and made his offer, and was as promptly accepted as a lover.

Though they were both very young, and neither of them had a dollar, still as those considerations would not have influenced David in the slightest degree, we know not why they where not immediately married.

Several months of very desperate and satisfactory courtship passed away, when the time came for the nuptials of the little Quaker girl, which ceremony was to take place at the cabin of her uncle David and his "girl" were invited to the wedding.
The scene only inflamed the desires of David to hasten his marriage-day.

He was very importunate in pressing his claims.

She seemed quite reluctant to fix the day, but at last consented; and says David, "I thought if that day come, I should be the happiest man in the created world, or in the moon, or anywhere else." In the mean time David had become very fond of his rifle, and had raised enough money to buy him one.