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 LOSES FAITH IN THE KING.
to be carried down to the river, which in a few weeks dried
up, and so did the diggings. One after another of the
miners departed, the traders shut up their stores, the
saloon-keepers drank their own whiskey, the Jews closed
out their stock of goods for another exodus, the gamblers
starved over their monte-tables; and so the bubble burst,
and the city which came up like a mushroom was deserted,
and all that was left to mark the spot where "pay dirt" had
been found, was mud chimneys and rubbish.
About one o'clock the horn was heard, announcing the
arrival of the San Francisco stage, and in an hour we were
seated behind five mules, on our return to Tucson, where we
arrived about noon of the next day. We found our animals
all right, and only Jimmy was wanting to enable us to start
at once on our return to La Mesilla. Colonel Robinson
dispatched a Mexican to notify him of our arrival, and
before night Jimmy was with us, quite as delighted to see
us as we by any possibility could be to see him. We questioned him concerning his stay with "the kinlg," but found
him unusually reticent, and evidently not inclined to say
much on the subject.
That night, however, while leaning over the mud wall of
Colonel Robinson's corrl.l, enljoying the light of an Arizona
moon, Jimmy confidentially informed Dr. Parker and myself
that "the king was an ould humbug; that he didn't know
how to trate a gintlemin at all, at all, and had trated bir
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