He was poor at that time and so the father of Miss Jemima Parr did not want him for a soninlaw and told him he was not to come near the house or he would set the dog on him.

Miss Jemima Parr was very pretty and my mothers uncle Thomas was just crazy about her and she wanted him too.

She cried almost every night after her father forbid him to come to the house except the nights she had to sleep or she would have died.

And she was so frightened he might try to come for all and get tore up by the dog and it was a bull-dog too that would never let go.

But mothers uncle Thomas was too cute for that.