Excerpt from Uncle Peter SkedYoung men go a-courting in Cranberry, just as they do in more ostentatious sections of the country, and they sometimes get the girls they like best and sometimes do not, and occasionally in these little com petitions for the favor of the fair sex, they maul each other with their fists, and so by a sort of counter irritation process, obtain relief from the intense sore ness and aching of their hearts. And then again, purse proud and blood proud fathers, like such fathers else where, grow irritable and obstinate and terribly dis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.