I only wanted to get acquainted." Miss Sally laughed.
"Well," she said cheerfully, "there's different ways to do it, but I guess you an' me have got well acquainted different from what most folks does.

Ain't you been over to the ice-cream table yet?
Or was you waitin' to be primed; that's what us ladies is here for, to start folks spendin' money, like Mrs.Foster's little nephew that come up from the city to visit her last summer.

He wanted to know what everything was for that was on the farm or in the house, that he wasn't used to, an' when they told him they always had to leave a dipper of water in the pail to prime the pump with so it would give water, he wanted to know if the reason they had the pans of milk in the spring-house was so they could prime the cows so they would give milk." Eliph' laughed heartily, for his heart was light.

He was making progress; Miss Sally admitted that they were well acquainted, and now he could proceed to the second step advised in "Courtship; How to Win the Affections; How to Hold Them When Won.".