SOUTH WESTERN REPORTER.

The limitation of the period of propitiation to one month was based not so much upon religious grounds as upon the fact that a Municipality, with purely Western ideas of sanitation and of combating epidemics, refused to allow the maintenance of the shed, which was to be the temporary home of Jarimari, for more than thirty days.

" "No, no," Honora laughed; "he's not mad; he's merely Western.

"Western," he said at last, "decidedly Western.

Delightfully Western, too!

Even to-day it is probable that a majority of the residents in the strictly Eastern States regard anything west of the Mississippi River as strictly Western.

Typically Western, she thought, that in their second meeting he should act like an old friend.