Agreeing With All the Girls — 405
In a lesson in parsing the sentence, “man, courting capacity of bliss, etc.,” the word courting comes to a pert young miss of fourteen to parse. She commenced hesitatingly, but got along well enough until she was to tell what it agreed with. Here she stopped short. But as the teacher said, “Very well, what does courting agree with?” Ellen blushed, and hung down her head. “Ellen, don’t you know what that agrees with?” “Ye—ye—yes, sir!” “Well, Ellen, why don’t you parse that word? What does it agree with?” Blushing still more, and stammering, Ellen says, “It a-agrees with all the girls, sir!”