I have known our father to take his gun and go into the woods and stay there until he had fought out the spell.

I have done that myself, but once I married Bessie I have had no return of the old feeling.

Get married, Jack, and then you will settle down and work.
You will not have time to roam around alone in the woods." "I prefer the spells, as you call them, any day," answered Jonathan, with a short laugh.

"A man with my disposition has no right to get married.

This weather is trying, for it keeps me indoors.