Two Courtings

ship, as she herself once told it to a teasing and f avorite child, that the reader shall have as that of another "woman who dared." It happened in this wise. Mr. Matthew Griswold, tall, shy and awkward, bnt soholarly and kind, early in his life wooed a lady in a distant town, who had another string to her bow in the person of a viliage doctor. For a long time she had kept her Lyme lover in a state of tmcertainty, in the hope that she might draw out a proposal from his professed rival. After some months of this dallying Mr. Griswold determined to have the matter settled, andso one day rode to town, entered her house, and once more tendered heart and hand. " Oh, Mr. Griswold, youmust giveme more time," said the lady. "I giye you your lifetime, miss," was the indignant reply; whereat the youth bowed himself out, flung into the saddle and galloped away forever, leaving the maiden, who maiden was foreverniore, as herbird in thebushwas never caught. To Mntthew, disconsolate at his beautif al home amid the magniflcent groves of elm3 that still shelter the old Griswold homestead at Black Hall, on the shore of the sound, just east of the mouth of the Connecticnt river, appeared soon after his cousin Úrsula, a ittle his senior in years, but inheriting ;he beauty, pride and ready wit oi her grandmother, Martha. Bhe "came, saw, conquered;" but, warned by his past experience, Matthew was slow to speak, though his looks and actions betrayed his feelings toward his )retty cousin. Things ran on this way for a space, intil, one stormy day near the close of ïer visit, Úrsula, descending the dark, old oaken staircase, suddenly encoun;ered her cousin ascending. Meeting lim more than half way, she, stopping suddenly, said sweetly: "What did you say, Cousin Mathew ?" " Oh, I didn't speak; Ididn't say anyhing." "High time you did, cousin; high ime you did." The future Governor was not slow to ake the hint, and speedily found his ;ongue, and that is how Úrsula Wolcott )ecame Úrsula Griswold, and for twentyive years always had a near rela;ive in the Governor's chair in old necticut.