Now did you ever hear such fool talk outside of an asylum?
He and that Armstrong kid are well matched.

No wonder she sits in there and gapes at him half the day." Captain Sam Hunniwell and his daughter were hugely tickled.
"Jed's got a girl at last," crowed the captain.

"I'd about given up hope, Jed.

I was fearful that the bloom of your youth would pass away from you and you wouldn't keep company with anybody.
You're so bashful that I know you'd never call on a young woman, but I never figured that one might begin callin' on you.

Course she's kind of extra young, but she'll grow out of that, give her time." Maud Hunniwell laughed merrily, enjoying Mr.Winslow's confusion.
"Oh, the little girl is only the bait, Father," she declared.