Chapter 12
The fact that February has twenty-nine days this year, instead of its customary twenty-eight will probably go unnoticed by most people.
The young men’s fancy will still turn to love, while the old men drag out the garden tillers and think of plantin’.
Only those few who MIGHT have a once-in-a-four-years birthday on THAT day will remember the month has an extra day.
So, for three years, the girls practiced cornerin’ some helpless ole’ boy behind a door and askin’ him to marry her. And the boys practiced going everywhere in pairs so they could help one another out of BAD situations.
But somehow, the old idea has died out. Perhaps it was good in its day.
It DID give those girls a chance who might’ve ended up old maids forever and ever!
And since the women didn’t work outside the home in those days, they did more or less look at marriage a little different than the women of today do.