_You_'ve bin chaffin'-- w'y shouldn't _I_?
But I don't see why she can't wait a bit; and what's all the d----d hurry for?
_I_'m in no hurry.

I don't want a wife on my back for a while.

There's no fellow marries till he's took his bit o' fun, and seen life--is there! And why should I be driving with her to fairs, or to church, or to meeting, by jingo!--for they say she's a Quaker--with a babby on each knee, only to please them as will be dead and rotten when _I_'m only beginning ?' 'Ah, you are such charming fellow; always the same--always sensible.

So I and my friend we will walk home again, and you go see Maggie Hawkes.
Good-a-by, Dud--good-a-by.' 'Quiet, you fool!--can't ye ?' said the young gentleman, with the sort of grin that made his face vicious when a horse vexed him.

'Who ever said I wouldn't go look at the girl?
Why, you know that's just what I come here for--don't you?
Only when I think a bit, and a notion comes across me, why shouldn't I speak out?
I'm not one o' them shilly-shallies.