"The man I am going to marry." When she said that I felt, all of a sudden, like when you are broke and hungry and run acrost a half dollar you had forgot about in your other pants.

I was so glad I jumped.
"Great guns!" I says.
I had never really knowed what being glad was before.
"Oh, Danny, Danny," she says, putting her hands in front of her face, "and here you have come to claim me for your bride!" Which showed me why she had looked so scared.

That there girl had went and got engaged to another feller.

And had been laying awake nights suffering fur fear I would turn up agin.

And now I had.