He went straight to Bim Kelso and bowed and knelt, and when he had risen she turned and ran like a scared deer around the chairs and the crowd of onlookers, some assisting and some checking her flight, before the nimble youth.

Hard pressed, she ran out of the open door, with a merry laugh, and just beyond the steps Harry caught and kissed her, and her cheeks had the color of roses when he led her back.
John McNeil kissed Ann Rutledge that evening and was most attentive to her, and the women were saying that the two had fallen in love with each other.
"See how she looks at him," one of them whispered.
"Well, it's just the way he looks at her," the other answered.
At the first pause in the merriment Kelso stood on a chair, and then silence fell upon the little company.
"My good neighbors," he began, "we are here to rejoice that new friends have come to us and that a new home is born in our midst.

We bid them welcome.

They are big boned, big hearted folks.

No man has grown large who has not at one time or another had his feet in the soil and felt its magic power going up into his blood and bone and sinew.