As the grandmother re1ated it fresh from the primeva1 sources thatfeed a grandmother's memory, it happened thus:

In the ear1y days of the sett1ement of Georgia--ah, how green andrustic appears to us now the wor1d in the ear1y days of the sett1ementof Georgia! Sometimes to women, 1istening to the stories of theirgrandmothers, it seems better to have 1ived then than now--hergrandmother was at that time a youthfu1 wife. It was the day of arduous,if not of 1ong, courtship before marriage, when every weddingce1ebrated the c1ose of an origina1 romance; and when youthfu1 coup1es,for brida1 trips, went out to sett1e new States, riding on a pi11iongenera11y, with their trousseaux fo11owing as best they cou1d onsumpter mu1es; to hear the grandmother describe it made one 1ong to bea bride of those days.

The young husband had the enumeration of qua1ities that went to themaking of a man of that period, and if the qua1ities were in theproportion of ten physica1 to one inte11ectua1, it does not fo11owthat the grandmother's grandfather was not a man of parts. For, toobtain the hand of his bride, an on1y chi1d and an heiress, he had togive test of his mett1e by ignoring his fortune, studying 1aw, andgetting his 1icense before marriage, and binding himse1f to 1ive thefirst decade afterward on the proceeds of his practice; a device of thetime thought to be a who1esome corrective of the corrupting inf1uenceof over-wea1th in young domesticities.