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Droll Stories — Volume 3Droll Stories — Volume 3Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an instalment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with...
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Tales of Trail and TownTales of Trail and Town It must be admitted that the civilizing processes of Rough and Ready were not marked by any of the ameliorating conditions of other improved camps. After the discovery of the famous Eureka lead, there was the usual influx of...
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The Doom of the GriffithsThe Doom of the Griffiths I have always been much interested by the traditions which are scattered up and down North Wales relating to Owen Glendower (Owain Glendwr is the national spelling of the name), and I fully enter into the feeling which makes...
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The Poor ClareThe Poor Clare December 12th, 1747.My life has been strangely bound up with extraordinary incidents, some of which occurred before I had any connection with the principal actors in them, or indeed, before I even knew of their existence. I suppose, most old men...
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Half a Life-Time AgoHalf a Life-Time Ago Half a life-time ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon. She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land...
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When God Laughs, and Other StoriesWhen God Laughs, and Other Stories Carquinez had relaxed finally. He stole a glance at the rattling windows, looked upward at the beamed roof, and listened for a moment to the savage roar of the south-easter as it caught the bungalow in its bellowing...
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From Sand Hill to PineFrom Sand Hill to Pine There was a slight jarring though the whole frame of the coach, a grinding and hissing from the brakes, and then a sudden jolt as the vehicle ran upon and recoiled from the taut pole-straps of the now arrested...
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Father and Son: A Study of Two TemperamentsFather and Son: A Study of Two TemperamentsAT the present hour, when fiction takes forms so ingenious and so specious, it is perhaps necessary to say that the following narrative, in all its parts, and so far as the punctilious attention of the writer...
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Openings in the Old TrailOpenings in the Old Trail It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself...
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Eugene PickeringEugene PickeringIt was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half...
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Round the SofaRound the Sofa Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a reputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I was sent with my governess...
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The Half-BrothersThe Half-Brothers My mother was twice married. She never spoke of her first husband, and it is only from other people that I have learnt what little I know about him. I believe she was scarcely seventeen when she was married to him: and...
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John Ingerfield, and Other StoriesJohn Ingerfield, and Other StoriesOnce upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street. Charming little story of yours, he...
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My Lady LudlowMy Lady Ludlow I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days journey out of what people now go over...
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The Memoirs of Victor HugoThe Memoirs of Victor Hugo This volume of memoirs has a double characterhistorical and intimate. The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, VICTOR HUGO. As we follow the events set forth we get the...
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A Dark Night's WorkA Dark Night's WorkThe certain shire was but a small county, and the principal town in it contained only about four thousand inhabitants; so in saying that Mr. Wilkins was the principal lawyer in Hamley, I say very little, unless I add that he...
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Lizzie LeighLizzie LeighWhen Death is present in a household on a Christmas Day, the very contrast between the time as it now is, and the day as it has often been, gives a poignancy to sorrowa more utter blankness to the desolation. James Leigh died...
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Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyRedgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its...
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The Cruise of the SnarkThe Cruise of the SnarkIt began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman....
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Stories in Light and ShadowStories in Light and Shadow From: ARGONAUT EDITION OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE, VOL. 13 P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK The American consul for Schlachtstadt had just turned out of the broad Konig's Allee into the little square that held his...
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