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Show 164 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. " Surely, mon, you mak a mistake ; ' Golightly' has na ither wife but me." The man insisted that he had taken a spiritual wife. • " A ' spiritual wife'-I dinna ken the kind." Our old lady had of course never heard, that polygamy was practised as a part of the religion of the Mormons. She treated the report of the teamster as a mistake, and supposed he meant that Golightly had hired a servant girl, to do the work of the house. Under this impression, she resumed her journey. But, poor woman, what was her sorrow and agony, to find on her arrival at Salt Lake that the husband of her youth, he for whom she had just submitted to such an unheard-of sacrifice of personal comfort, at her age; tie father of her children-, should have broken faith, and repudiated her ! Heart-broken, and prostrated with disease she fell back in her wagon-in a swoon. Our old Trojan quickly applied restoratives, and endeavored to lift her into the house. " Na, na, my foot shall never cross the threshold of the house that contains anither wife; this wagon shall be my house, and my children's house; in that, during the howlings of the winter's blast, or the scorching heat of the summer, will I abide, until death takes me away." All the affection and love of Golightly, returned on again seeing his old wife, he fondled her, and prepared all the nourishment for her with his own hand, and succeeded in pacifying the old lady to submit to circumstances, which, when she found it was a part of the religion, she became more reconciled to. But the old lady asked me, " Who do you think he married ? Surely nabodie but our auld cook from Edin- |