The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

JIMMY IN TROUBLE AGAIN.
be the natural outlet from the mountains, and the rain which
had undoubtedly fallen in them during the evening, had
collected in the water-courses and gullies upon their sides,
and finally found vent through this channel to the plains
below.
I hastily awoke Dr. Parker and Jimmy, whose astonishment at the sight equalled my own.
The doctor understood the phenomenon at once. Not so
Jimmy, however, who, the instant he heard the roar of
the rushing waters, and saw the turbulent flood surging so
madly by us, fell upon his knees, and with terrified countenance commenced a prayer to the Virgin, interrupted
only by loud and frantic cries for a "praste."
Then he bewailed the sad fate that had induced him to
enlist in the service of a man who travelled in such "Godforsaken counthries," and begged most piteously to "be sint
right strate out of the divilish place."
The doctor and myself did our best to pacify him, tellnmg him that no harm could possibly come of it; that it
was simply the water from the mountains finding its way to
the lake he had tried to reach the day before.
At this explanation, Jimmy regarded us with no sinall
amount of suspicion, and merely remarking "that he should
think there was a divil of a lake somewhere," he turned
away; but the doctor, thinking it a good time to learn the
history of Jimmy's expedition of the day before, questioned
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