Dan Boggs on the side of hoomanity, an’ tharupon Dan goes trackin’ in without doo reflection, an’ sets the Mexicans examples which, to give ’em a best deescription, is shore some bad.  It ain’t Nell’s fault, but Dan is a gent of sech onusual impulses that you-all don’t know wherever Dan will land none, once you goes pokin’ up his ha’r-hung sensibil’ties with su’gestions that is novel to his game.  Still, Nell can’t he’p it; an’ in view of what we knows to be the female record since ever the world begins, I re-asserts onhesitatin’ that the effects of woman is good.  She subdooes the reckless, subjoogates the rebellious, sobers the friv’lous, burns the ground from onder the indolent moccasins of that male she’s roped up in holy wedlock’s bonds, an’ p’ints the way to a higher, happier life.  That’s whatever! an’ this dramy of existence, as I once hears Colonel Sterett say, would be a frost an’ a failure an’ bog plumb down at that, if you was to cut out the leadin’ lady roles an’ ring up the curtain with nothin’ but bucks in the cast.’

“Narrow an’ contracted as you may deem said camp to be, Wolfville itse’f offers plenty proof on this head.  Thar’s Dave Tutt:  Whatever is Dave, I’d like for to inquire, prior to Tucson Jennie runnin’ her wifely brand on to him an’ redoocin’ him to domesticity?  No, thar’s nothin’ so evil about Dave neither, an’ yet he has his little ways.  For one thing, Dave’s about as extemporaneous a prop’sition as ever sets in a saddle, an’ thar’s times when you give Dave licker an’ convince him it’s a o’casion for joobilation, an’ you-all won’t have to leave no ‘call’ with the clerk to insure yourse’f of bein’ out early in the mornin.’  Son, Dave would keep that camp settin’ up all night.

“But once Dave comes onder the mitigatin’ spells of Tucson Jennie, things is changed.  Tucson Jennie knocks Dave’s horns off doorin’ the first two weeks; he gets staid an’ circumspect an’ tharby plays better poker an’ grows more urbane.

“Likewise does Benson Annie work mir’cles sim’lar in the conduct of that maverick French which Enright an’ the camp, to allay the burnin’ excitement that’s rendin’ the outfit on account of the Laundry War, herds into her lovin’ arms.  Tenderfoot as he is, when we-all ups an’ marries him off that time, this French already shows symptoms of becomin’ one of the most abandoned sports in Arizona.  Benson Annie seizes him, purifies him, an’ makes him white as snow.

“An’ thar’s Missis Rucker;—­as troo a lady as ever bakes a biscuit!  Even with the burdens of the O.K.  Restauraw upon her she still finds energy to improve old Rucker to that extent he ups an’ rides off towards the hills one mornin’ an’ never does come back no more.