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Show " 0 FEAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN ! " 165 burgh; a dirty wench that I turned out of my house for impertinence; she followed the old man, and induced him to marry her, telling him that I never intended to come out to him. I have never set my eyes upon her, for she takes good care not to come where I am. It is now more than two years since I arrived, and the preachers have told me that if I would be baptized, I would feel perfectly contented." To please the old man, whom she still loved, she consented, and was immersed in water over her head, on a bitter cold day-but she resumed: " I canna see ony different now, I am only the worse in the body." Her daughters are kind and affable girls, they are the sole companions of the mother, who never goes any where out of her wagon, but into the shop. I saw Golightly several times after the revelation of his wife, he said it was an " o'er true tale," but his wife ought to know that he did not desert her, he sent for her, and loved her now more than ever, that he only took a spiritual wife, to ensure her eternal salvation; and also in accordance with his firm convictions, that he was doing right. I took the physician who was attached to the Gunnison expedition to see her, but he pronounced her case hopeless ; and I would not be surprised, if ere this she is in that happy country, " where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." |