"She's the only daughter of my only brother Paul, and she's come to visit me.

She'll be a nice mouthful to the man that can get her," added Tant Sannie.

"Her father's got two thousand pounds in the green wagon box under his bed, and a farm, and five thousand sheep, and God Almighty knows how many goats and horses.

They milk ten cows in mid-winter, and the young men are after her like flies about a bowl of milk.

She says she means to get married in four months, but she doesn't yet know to whom.