Josh Billings gives some advice to a young lady as to how she shall receive a proposal: "You ought to take it kind, looking down hill, with an expression about half-tickled and half-scart. After the pop is-over, if your layer wants few kiss you, I don't think I would say yes or no, but let the thing kind or take its own course."
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