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.

THE MOTHER-IN-LAW.
And the next minute he was by her side, making the
most frantic gesticulations in his efforts to get rid of the
poor woman, while he insisted upon continually talking to
her, in a strain something like the following, "Ye must go right home, like a good ooman, an' I'll
cum up right away, for if the Juge knows yer in camp,
he'd hev me kilt immajetly at onst. Go now, there's a
good ooman; don't bodder him enny longer."
After fairly pushing the woman out of the camp, and
returning with a most innocent look upon his face, he remarked, "I don't say her inyw]iere about, sur."
I said, "Jimmy, who is the woman? I've seen her
before, somewhere."
"Indade, sur, it's only me mither-in-lor."
"Who?"
"It's the mither of the gurl, sur."
"What girl, Jimmy?"
"The gurl, sur, thet thim Navajoe divils rin away wid the
other night;" and tears as big as gooseberries appeared in
Jimmy's eyes; as he added, "poor craythur, who can till
what her sufferin's may be."
I said to Jimmy, thinking to comfort him in his affiction, "Well, I'm very glad she's here, for now you may
be enabled to make the poor woman some kind of reparation for the great wrong you have unconsciously worked her,
as well as her daughter."
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