o 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.

"'Doc,' he says to Doc Peets, while he's fillin' a canteen in the Red
Light prior to his start; 'I won't tell you what I'm aimin' to
accomplish, because the Stranglers might regyard it as their dooty to
round m