"I scorn and defy the suspicions of that enemy of the persecuted South, and high-handed wooer of exclusively Northern women!"

LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen, And sair wi' his love he did deave me: I said there was naething I hated like men; The deuce gae wi'm to believe me, believe me, The deuce gae wi'm to believe me!

LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen, And sair wi' his love he did deave me: I said there was naething I hated like men; The deuce gae wi'm to believe me, believe me, The deuce gae wi'm to believe me!

But owre my left shouther I gae him a blink, Lest neebours might say I was saucy: My wooer he capered as he'd been in drink, And vowed I was his dear lassie, dear lassie, And vowed I was his dear lassie! I spiered for my cousin fu' couthy and sweet, Gin she had recovered her hearin, And how her new shoon fit her auld shachled feet

I tell, thee, Francis, had it been my case, And I had been a wooer in thy place, I would have laid my head unto the ground, And scented out my wench's way, like a hound; I would have crept upon my knees all night, And have made the flintstones links to give me light; Nay, man, I would. FRAN.

IV., is that Lamb was never a very serious wooer, and that Alice Wn was more an abstraction around which now and then to group tender imaginings of what might have been than any tangible figure.

A Wondrous Wooer Without Words!

She wrote such a widow-like refusal when she went from me, as might not exclude hope in any other wooer; whatever it may do in Mr. Tony Harlowe.

Now, by the Mary matins, Peg, thou hast got the merriest wooer in all womanshire.

A WOOER Stands candidate for cuckold, and if he miss of it, it is none of his fault, for his merit is sufficiently known.

But if he be a wooer of fortune, that designs to raise himself by it, he makes wooing his vocation, deals with all matchmakers, that are his setters, is very painful in his calling, and if his business succeed, steals her away and commits matrimony with a felonious intent.

Full of intelligence and wit, he won the hearts of all whom he wished to gain, especially of the men who were ablest and most refined, such as Flamininus and Scipio; he was a pleasant boon companion and, not by virtue of his rank alone, a dangerous wooer.

This was not her ideal of a wooer.

Little Bel, who, although she was twenty years old, and had by no means been without her admirers, had never yet kissed any man but her father and brothers, put up her rosy lips, as confidingly as a little child, to be kissed by this strange wooer, who wooed only for leave to woo.

Even to her wooer's generosity it might seem a daring request,the thing she craved.

The poor creatures know that their chances will be few, and therefore gratefully welcome the first wooer.

"She can't," I thought to myself, "be much in love with her wooer," and I began to study her with a certain curiosity.

Not unfrequently Streph'on is the wooer when Celia is the wooed.

" "A gentle wooer, indeed!

Nicely dressed and well-spoken and good-looking women above the class of domestic servants he worshipped from afar, and only in vivacious moments pictured himself as the wooer of such a superior being.

No trace of Rose was ever after found, nor was anything certain respecting her mysterious wooer discovered or even suspectedno clue whereby to trace the intricacies of the labyrinth and to arrive at its solution, presented itself.

Katharine, in Chartres orchard there met a man and a maid we know of; now in Troyes they meet again,not as princess and king, but as man and maid, the wooer and the wooed.

She was at this time an attractive, cultivated young person, of a placid disposition, who seems to have married more because marriage offered her a comfortable settlement and assured position in life, than from any passionate affection for her wooer, which, it is just to her to say, she did not profess.

Henceforth I must have done with all girlish speculations, as to the manner of man who is to drop from the clouds to be my wooer.

Farther let no mortal fare Who would be a wooer, Than unwithered he may bear Blushing roses to her, Or than nightingale may fly For her nesting grasses, Or than with the west wind's sigh Her soft warbling passes.