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.

HOW HE LOADED HIS GULV.
of the black-tailed species, who headed directly for us,
closely followed by Jimmy, who was wildly urging forward
his poor bewildered mule.
Dr. Parker immediately took aim with his carbine, and,
as good luck would have it, broticght down the buck at
the very first shot, to the great discomfiture of Jimmy, who
had nearly reached the scene of action. At this juncture a
little cloud of dust arose, and for a time both mule and rider
were hidden from view. As it cleared away, Jimmy was
discovered some distance in advance of his animal, which
had unfortunately stepped into a gopher-hole, throwing him
into mid-air with a velocity whi(h well nigh deprived the
poor fellow of breath. As soon as he had collected his
scattered senses, he began a vigorous search for his gull,
which he at length succeeded in finding far fioin the place
of his disaster.
Upon coming up with Jimmy, we rallied him upon the
way in which "they killed daer in ould Ireland." Lie
finally acknowledged that the gun had missed fire twice
before the deer had taken to the plain- a bit of information in: no wise surprising, when upon examination wec
found, that in loading his piece, he had carefully placed a
bullet at the bottom of each bairel, quite foroetting, the
i)owder which should have accompanied it,- an omission
which Jimmy explained, by boldly and unblushingly declaring that "the powther had all laked out."
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