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.

ITS CAUSE.
promised well for the speedy accomplishment of the task,
but alas!
"The best laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft agley,"
for, long before the task was finished, Jimmy lay upon the
flat of his back assuring the doctor that "this time fur thrue,
he was a-dyin' fur shure."
No reasoning had any effect in conviucing him to the contrary, no assurances seemed to quiet him, his time had certainly come, and said he, "If yez would only bring to mi
bidside mi ould father and mither to recave mi blessin',
I'd die contint, be jabers."
Assuring him that if it were possible we would gladly do
it, but that as his father and mother were ill Ireland, we did
not see how it could be done, he declared between the paroxysms of retching that "say-sickness was hilth compared
to the bastely sufferin' that he was goin' thro' wid," and
said he, "Docther, I'd die conitint, if ye'd till me the cause
ov it."
To whi,h request the doctor gravely and unhesitatingly
responded, that his sickness was "undoubtedly owiong to the
malarious results superinduced by too frequent and undue
exposure to the deleterious effects of the Hesperian ether
while in an unacclimated physical condition."
"Howly mother," said Jimmy- retch- "is allretch - that - retch - the matther wid me? - retch - Thin
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