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.

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Upon riding up to him, I said, "Well, Jimmy, what
nonsense is this; do you want to be left behind?"
"Be gorra," said Jimmy; "would ye hev a mon ridin'
all day wid sthones in his shoes?"
"No, Jimmy," said I; "but hurry up, for I've informed
the chief that you are going to take upon yourself the entire
responsibility of the rescue of the girl."
"But," said Jimmy, "will yez jist ride along till I'nm
afther gittin' these sthones from mi shoes, and I'll jine yez
in a viry few minutes."
Not desiring to have him remain behind, I insisted so
strongly upon his mounting his animal and accompanying
me, that he finally did so, although we had not proceeded
twenty yards before he dropped his gun. This recovered, I
saw him picking up his hat from the ground, and after every
other means of delay seemed exhausted, he deliberately
stopped, and began to tighten the girths to his saddle.
Upon remonstrating with bim for these frequent and
unnecessary delays, he finally said: "I'll not attimpt the riscue ov the gur] at all; and I don't
care a d-n if she's riscued or not; and I'm not faylin'
will, aither, so yez naedn't wait fur mi."
Leaving him, I rode on, and overtaking the party, heard
that the scouts had been in, and reported the sheep and
cattle quietly grazing in a meadow not half a mile from us,
and that Don Santiago had distributed his men so as to
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