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.

HIS MOTHIER-IN-LA W.
can, and do tell you, to keep away from the woman, anid l
shall require your parole that you won't go near the town
M itlhout permission."
"I'll not give it to yez," said Jimmy, firmly bracing him.
self, and speaking with a most determined air. "Fathei
Donnegan giv it me, an' I'll kape it all mi life long, for he
tould me to; an' it's mighty quare that a moncan't visit wid
his own mither-in-lor, widout bein' obliged to deliver up
his barole."
"'You couldn't marry your mother-in-law, Jimmy, without
breaking the law, and that would subject you to punishment
for the crime of bigamy- perhaps."
"What's that, shure, sur?"
"When a man marries his mother-in-law, that's bigamy,
Jimmy, which the law don't permit."
"Shure, I think it's moighty small bizness for the lor to
interfere in cases ov thi affictions."
"There's no country in the world, Jimmy, where such a
marriage would be legal."
"Yis, sur," said Jimmy, with great promptitude; "it
wud be laghal in ould Ireland."
"0, no; you are mistaken. It is impossible for it to be
legal in any civilized country."
"Yis, sur," said Jimmy. " Michael Murphy, in the county
Monohon, parish ov Limerick, married his own mither-inlor, an' Father Donnegan did it wid his own hands."
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