Bret Harte
A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
The four men on Zip Coon Ledge had not got fairly settled to their morning's work, when one of them ran off to meet the advancing horseman and hand a brown envelope to their messenger. Jackson...
A Convert of the Mission
Stephen Masterton was dragged from the tent of the Tasajara camp meeting and placed in a dilapidated adobe house. There he kept loyal faith with his physician and gave himself up to simple walks...
A Drift from Redwood Camp
The shiftless, worthless creature was overlooked by the census and ignored by the tax collector, and found himself adrift in a swollen tributary of the Minyo. Elijah Martin succumbed again to the...
Adventures Of John Longbowe, Yeoman
John Longbowe was miraculously preserved by eating gilly flowers, sulphur, hartes tongue and many stynking herbs, and wearing a fine mask of silk with a mouth piece of aromatic stuff. He was sent...
A Knight-Errant Of The Foothills
Father Felipe read the announcement that Don Jose Sepulvida would preside over the Board of Education in Jonesville. Don Jose Sepulvida, sitting alone in the same apartment, beheld to his...
A Lonely Ride
As I stepped into the Slumgullion stage I saw a lounger and a third spectator wearily disengaging themselves from one of the Ionic columns of the portico. When I left the dining-room, I stopped at...
A Mother of Five
She was a mother of five children, two of whom were twins, and she never made any difference between them. A little girl carrying her monstrous offspring in her arms appeared before Jack Roper's...
An Ali Baba of the Sierras
Johnny Starleigh found himself again late for school, but his fancy was quickly taken by the traces of a singular accident. A desperado came forward and began to climb a small ridge of outcrop, but...
An Episode of Fiddletown
In 1858, Fiddletown considered Mrs. Tretherick a very pretty woman with only two blemishes: her left cheek bore a small scar left by a single drop of vitriol. Mrs. Tretherick opened the door,...
A Passage In The Life of Mr. John Oakhurst
Mr. Oakhurst was shocked to find the sun streaming through an inadvertently opened window. He saw a man coming slowly toward him in a carriage and instantly conceived that the carriage was the...
A Romance of the Line
A man, half his age and a different-looking person, slipped out of his seat and said to the young man, "I do not know Sir Jarge." The young man's face changed and he was introduced as his cousin...
A Vision of the Fountain
Mr. Jackson Potter halted before the little cottage opposite the great gates of Domesday Park and read aloud: "St. John's gateway". He plunged into a by-path and conceived at once a humorous...