8 The Courting of Dinah Shadd by Rudyard Kipling

There was an army and a soldier named Mulvaney. He told a story about how he got married to the beautiful Dinah Shadd. He was dating Dinah Shadd, and they were going to get married. Then, he got drunk and went to Judy's house. Judy sit on his lap and he stayed there for a few hours. Judy's mother saw him too and thought he was Judy's man. The next day, Mulvaney went to Dinah Shadd's house, but Judy came and said that Mulvaney was her man. Judy's mother also came. Mulvaney denied and Dinah Shadd said that she will still marry him. Then Judy's mother cursed them and their children. Judy and her mother left, and Mulvaney's child did die.