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Show 160 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. CHAPTER XXV. MOEMON EPISODES. "Golightly"-His Occupation and Character-Author Patronizes Him-Mrs. Golightly -She thinks Sbakspeare did not understand the Passions of Men-" Oh I Frailty, thy Name is Man 1"-Affecting Incident, THEEE resided in Great Salt Lake City, in the year 1854, a jolly old Scotchman, who rejoiced in the cognomen of " Golightly," he was a baker by trade, a musician by nature, and a good Mormon by practice. He made first-rate bread, biscuit, and cakes, and cooked to order splendid beefsteaks and mutton chops, as my fellow traveller Egloffstien and myself can fully testify, for we patronized him daily in all the branches of gastronomy, for which he was famous. His bakehouse was attached to his shop; a small house about a rod on one side, was his dwelling, and immediately back of the oven, in the open yard, was a covered wagon, which was used as the parlor and bedchamber of his old wife, and three daughters, aged respectively thirteen, fifteen, and seventeen, and a son of eleven years. This old lady I frequently met in my visits to Go lightly's shop, sitting carefully wrapped up, on an old travelling chest near the fireplace; she appeared to be |