Setting the Time — 576
A close-fisted old farmer had a likely daughter, whose opening charms attracted the attention of a certain young man. After some little manoeuvring, he ventured to open a courtship. On the first night of his appearance in the parlour, the old man, after dozing in his chair until nine o’clock, arose, and putting a log of wood on the fire, said as he left the room, “There, Nancy, when that log of wood burns out it is time for James to go home.”