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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ALONE 1N CAMP.
step, and so light his air, that I called him back aftel hlie had
proceeded some distance on his errand, to bid him be sure
and not forget to return immediately, as I was entirely
alone in the camp, and very hungry.
Assuring me that he would certainly comply with my
most reasonable demands, he once more departed, and the
setting sun was tinging the earth with its crimson benediction ere he returned to inform me that "the mate wuz
gane whin he got thare." A fact that my loneliness during
the afternoon had more forcibly impressed upon me than
did Jimmy's bare assertion.
To say that I had made up my mind to give Jimmy a
"piece of it" upon his return, doesn't do justice to the
ideas that had been crowding my active brain all the afternoon long; nor can I repeat to you the withering sarcasms
that had sprung unbidden to my lips, or the tremendous
oaths which I had determined to hurl at his devoted head,
upon his appearance.
They would have crushed a dozen stalwart forms into
the dust, for I had intended that they should annihilate
Jimmy so completely that he nor his mother-in-law should
never again be heard from.
Alas for my determination! One glance at his bright,
pleasant face completely disarmed my resentment, and I
heard his story about not "findin' the mate, and goin' round
to his mither-in-lor's own house, an' gittin' a chickeln fuP
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