HIS LOVE AFFAIRS Naturally a lad of this temper had his loves.

He made no secret of them, and all the young people in the town knew his sweethearts and the precise time when his passion changed its course.

If a girl pleased him he courted her with the utmost directness, but he was by no interpretation a love-sick youth.

His likings were more in the nature of proprietary comradeship, and were expressed without caresses or ordinary words of endearment.
His courtship amounted to service.

He waited about to meet and help his love, he hastened to defend her and to guide her; and if the favored one knew her role she humored his fancies, permitting him to aid her in finding her way across a weedy pasture lot or over a tiny little brook which he was pleased to call a torrent.