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annum and railroad expenses paid, has 

 agreed by letter to all your demands, robust 

 health included, and has undertaken, in her 

 own words, ' to keep your house as I keep 

 my own, and to be a help and comfort to 

 you.' She arrives, and deposits herself in 

 the most comfortable, and of necessity the 

 roomiest, chair in your parlour. She has 

 not occupied this position for half an hour 

 before you are in possession of a category 

 of her ailments ; not very serious ones, you 

 consider, but in the vain hope of curing 

 which she has, she assures you, spent 

 hundreds of dollars on divers physicians. 

 She is so imposing and so large that a slight 

 expenditure of moral courage may be re- 

 quired in order to remind her of her written 

 assurance of 'perfect health.' Thereupon 

 she expands her ample bosom in a gust of 

 injured dignity, and retorts severely : 



' You need give yourself no uneasiness ; 

 I never give up/ 



At this point at once make up your mind 

 that, to use words once addressed to your- 

 self, * You have come to New Mexico for 

 everyone's health and benefit but your own,' 



