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Show HOW HE WOOED HER. 257 "'Por Dios,' she replied, 'it seemed the best I could do, and how miserable a poor girl feels away from her friends, without either home or husband. So when he asked me to marry him I couldn't say no, as I didn't know of anybody else who wanted me for a wife.' "'Why, Marcelina, you could have done much better if you had only known it.' '"Por Dios, I'd like to, who could it be?' '"Why, you could have me, and as the fellow has not paid the five dollars, stand up and I'll marry you myself.' And he did so, thereby annulling the previous ceremony and clinching the final one." Mr. Irwin then took his hat and bowed gracefully out of the room, saying, "Was ever woman in this humor woo'd? Was ever woman in this humor won? " "Come," said Mr. Dunham, who, in energy and enthusiasm, is a typical Western man, "we will go to the office of Dr. Jennings and see his large and handsome collection of specimens. He has specimens of the iron, coal, silver, gold, etc., produced in this region." Somewhat astonished at his list of the precious and useful, I asked, " is that all?" "Yes," said he, pulling his mustache in a meditative way, " we are only waiting for some one to suggest something that we haven't, and we will immediately send a prospector into the mountains to find it." Entering the Doctor's office, and Lo, the poor Indian, skull and bones, like the label on "cold pizen," was "just above the chamber door." I sat down on a big lump of anthracite coal (it isn't everywhere that nature furnishes an ebony chair of such 17 |