A ROCKY MOUNTAIN WIFE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1998, 31 May 1875, Page 2

A ROCKY MOUNTAIN WIFE.

She was fair, robust, and as fresh as a " morning glory." She rushed in upon ' him while he was deeply immersed in the problematic rights of landlord against tenant. He is a very prominent political lawyer; she is a beauiiful young child of nature from the Platte Canon. She blushed," he bowed ; she casheed to the right and subsided into a convenient seat; he closed his calf-covered volume of the Illinois lleports,and arose with one hand under his coat-tail; and the other extended ready for a fee. " Good morning, madame." " Are you Mr T , the lawyer? "' . " That is my name, madame. What can can I do for you ? " "■Well, sir, I'm the wife of old man ,up the Platte. I married the old man two weeks ago last Friday, and I don't like it. I want a divorce. How much is it ? " The excited young lady here pulled out an old tobacco-pouch, roun,d which •, a piece of buckskin string was coiled, and I proceeded to untie it. The young " liralw of the law," whose eyes had been wan-^ dering in a wondering way' over the 7 strange apparition, stammeringly, replied. '" Why, • really, my dear misses—beg pardon, but I forgot your name !" " I ain't misses no longer. I am Miss Bella Ann P ,of Littleton, and I want a divorce, and I am willing to pay for it." "Be patient, my dear miss P—, and I will'advise with you." ' " -." ' " I don't want to advise. I want a divorce against old man N . He ain't the sort of a man I thought he.was.' ,He ain't rich, and is stingier than a Texan cow, an' he won't leave me be.. .So I left him, and* went over to Bar Creek, to Arthur Beneki's mother. Arthur used to like me.-before I married ■ old Jacob N , and now I want a divorce." - " Ihe lawyer reasoned with tho excited young lady, and assured her he would bo only too happy to file her application for divorce, were there grounds for the application. The angry young daughter of the mountains, listened impatiently to the counsel of tho lawyer. With the fury of a young lioness, at kit she bunt forth :r- - - " Can't get no divorce unless for more cause, can't I?. Then I'll just tell you, mister lawyer, I'll get it anyhow, Arthur told me how to get it I can send him.to the Canon City Penitentary and get adivorce on it. He traps trout' he does, and I can prove it on him, for I got him' to make the trap and helped him to do it, and I can prove. Now," said this brilliant young mountain - Amazon, " can't I have a divorce and let the old man go to Canon city. 1"^ ; The young lawyer thought she could, and at once wrote a letter to the- " old man," advising him to let the young girl go.—American paper.