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.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
It was fully an hour before Jimmy returned from his
evening tramp, looking exceedingly chagrined and chopfallen at the unfortunate denouement of his vaunted valor.
As he came up to us, I remarked, "Well, Jimmy, have you returned? We thought you
had probably planned and were executing an elopement,
from the sudden manner in which you disappeared an hour
or two since."
This remark drew from the doctor the observation that it
was as clear a case of intimidar as he had ever seen.
"And what does that mane?" said Jimmy.
His reply, "A badly-frightened man," did not tend
to satisfy him ill the least; and the loud laugh with which
the party greeted the explanation, seemed to rouse Jimmy
to that extent that, for the first time in my life, I saw him
quite vexed; and he remarked that "in a very short time
he'd be able to eschape from all the unplisint and thrying
sarcumstincis wid which he was thin surroundid."
Upon asking him what he meant by such insinuations, he
promptly and exultingly announced his approaching nuptials.
I said to him:
"Well, Jimmy, what's the fair damsel's name?"
"It's no matther, sur; it's no matther to you, sur."
"But it is, Jimmy, a matter of great importance to me.
What is her name?"
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