A Drift from Redwood Camp

A Drift from Redwood Camp

A Drift from Redwood Camp They had all known him as a shiftless, worthless creature. From the...
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Author: Harte, Bret,1836-1902
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Language: English
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A Drift from Redwood Camp

A Drift from Redwood Camp

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A Drift from Redwood Camp

$17.82 $8.91
Author: Harte, Bret,1836-1902
Format: eBook
Language: English

A Drift from Redwood Camp

They had all known him as a shiftless, worthless creature. From the time he first entered Redwood Camp, carrying his entire effects in a red handkerchief on the end of a long-handled shovel, until he lazily drifted out of it on a plank in the terrible inundation of '56, they never expected anything better of him. In a community of strong men with sullen virtues and charmingly fascinating vices, he was tolerated as possessing neithernot even rising by any dominant human weakness or ludicrous quality to the importance of a butt. In the dramatis personae of Redwood Camp he was a simple superwho had only passive, speechless roles in those fierce dramas that were sometimes unrolled beneath its green-curtained pines. Nameless and penniless, he was overlooked by the census and ignored by the tax collector, while in a hotly-contested election for sheriff, when even the head-boards of the scant cemetery were consulted to fill the poll-lists, it was discovered that neither candidate had thought fit to avail himself of his actual vote. He was debarred the rude heraldry of a nickname of achievement, and in a camp made up of Euchre Bills, Poker Dicks, Profane Pete, and Snap-shot Harry, was known vaguely as him, Skeesicks, or that coot. It was remembered long after, with a feeling of superstition, that he had never even met with the dignity of an accident, nor received the fleeting honor of a chance shot meant for somebody else in any of the liberal and broadly comprehensive encounters which distinguished the camp. And the inundation that finally carried him out of it was partly anticipated by his passive incompetency, for while the others escapedor were drowned in escapinghe calmly floated off on his plank without an opposing effort. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 2712
Author: Harte, Bret
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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