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" Wcii, tho lhciIcht you nave asked
mo 10 leli occurred on inc i3lh OF july,
l,o2, when was baby Just running
alone nicely. There had been many
settlers farther into the wilderness than
Miller's Station and lanna's Town. but
gradually they had been driven back till
our places were the last On the borders.
Among tho settlers thus returning were
two Scotch families VINO stopped and
built cabins near ours, the Couras and
Dunlaps. Others also settled down Mt
Millcr's until, with tho groat double
mansion OF Mr., Miller, the ln6housc of
John Brownlcc. and several smaller
ones, we had quito village.
"Mary Courla must have been II
beautiful Scotch girl, for her praises
were in eycybody's mouth. and rs |
first recall her, though thirty years old,
she was lovely woman. And James
Dunlap was worthy of her, few men |
ever saw equaling him in looks and
bearing. 10 seems that love, ike wild
violcts. blossoms in tho woods us well
as in tho fields; and perhaps il il sweet
cr there than In the towns where it
makes so much gaudior appearance,
like ovcr-cul,ivated panscs At any
rate, James and Mary courtod, loved,
married and lived great many years
oil welded love. all In tho borders.
"Thoy were general iavoritcs in our lit.
Tie settlement, and when it wnswhispcrod
about that thoir wedding day was sot,
MIR. Miller went to James and invited
him to have the wedding Mt tho man
sion md ak in a housclul. Jamos
assentod, and when the day came, july
~ IA was n poodiy company that
gathered 10 SEQ tho lovers unitod.
Numbers camo from Hanna's Town.
chief amonv them being Mrs. Hanna
herself and her two beautiful daughters.
tho aYistooracy OF Wostmorcland.
ain old times tho wedding day was
tho brides day, and the next was tho
groom's, ana was called tho Unfair. '
and this was % moro festive occasion
than tho marriage itself So You sec
my story happened not at wedding,
really, but at the Unfair
Everything went merry enough
until the middle of the afie noon.
There had been dancing. and playing,
and great gce after dinner, when sud
denly, like clap Of thunder out o.