Poems and StoriesScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1912 - 132 من الصفحات |
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ain't Amity Claim bells of Monterey boys Bret Harte Bret Harte's Bret Harte's stories cabin California cañon character chimney Chiquita Chrismiss Colonel Starbottle Dick Bullen Dickens door drifting Duchess eyes face feeling Folinsbee Frémont gambler gentlemen gulch hand handkerchief heathen Chinee hill hoss humor Innocent Jack Hamlin John Burns Johnny Jovita Kentuck literary looked Luck of Roaring melody Mission bells Mission Dolores morning Mother Shipton mountain night Oakhurst Outcasts of Poker pardner paused perhaps pine boughs Piney poem Poker Flat Poverty Flat Rattlesnake Creek Red Dog revealed river road Roaring Camp Romulus and Remus rose rude Saloon San Francisco Sandy Bar sang seemed Sierra Simpson's Bar Simson slowly smile snow stood Stumpy tell Tennessee Tennessee's Partner thar Thar's Thet's thing Thomas Starr King took Truthful James Uncle Billy voice whiskey woman York and Scott York's
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الصفحة xiv - Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen ; And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
الصفحة 13 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.
الصفحة 16 - And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin, Till the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these improper games, For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James; And I've told in simple language what I know about the row That broke up our Society upon the Stanislow.
الصفحة 41 - Shipton, and a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy. The philosophic Oakhurst alone remained silent. He listened calmly to Mother Shipton's desire to cut somebody's heart out, to the repeated statements of the Duchess that she would die in the road, and to the alarming oaths that seemed to be bumped out of Uncle Billy as he rode forward. With the easy good humor characteristic of his class, he insisted upon exchanging his own riding-horse, "Five Spot," for the sorry mule which the Duchess...
الصفحة 2 - Round shot ploughed the upland glades, Sown with bullets, reaped with blades ; Shattered fences here and there Tossed their splinters in the air; The very trees were stripped and bare; The barns that...
الصفحة 45 - They'll find out the truth about us all when they find out anything," he added significantly, " and there's no good frightening them now." Tom Simson not only put all his worldly store at the disposal of Mr. Oakhurst, but seemed to enjoy the prospect of their enforced seclusion. "We'll have a good camp for a week, and then the snow'll melt, and we'll all go back together.
الصفحة 27 - The assemblage numbered about a hundred men. One or two of these were actual fugitives from justice, some were criminal, and all were reckless. Physically, they exhibited no indication of their past lives and character- The greatest scamp had a Raphael face, with a profusion of...
الصفحة 47 - ... enabled him to live on the smallest possible amount of sleep, in dividing the watch with Tom Simson, somehow managed to take upon himself the greater part of that duty. He excused himself to the Innocent, by saying that he had " often been a week without sleep." "Doing what?" asked Tom. "Poker!" replied Oakhurst, sententiously ; " when a man gets a streak of luck, — nigger-luck, — he don't get tired. The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler, reflectively,
الصفحة 42 - But they were furnished with liquor, which in this emergency stood them in place of food, fuel, rest, and prescience. In spite of his remonstrances, it was not long before they were more or less under its influence. Uncle Billy passed rapidly from a bellicose state into one of stupor, the Duchess became maudlin, and Mother Shipton snored. Mr. Oakhurst alone remained erect, leaning against a rock, calmly surveying them. Mr. Oakhurst did not drink. It interfered with a profession which required coolness,...
الصفحة 46 - Innocent, with the aid of pine boughs, extemporized a thatch for the roofless cabin, and the Duchess directed Piney in the rearrangement of the interior with a taste and tact that opened the blue eyes of that provincial maiden to their fullest extent. "I reckon now you're used to fine things at Poker Flat," said Piney. The Duchess turned away sharply to conceal something that reddened her cheeks through their professional tint, and Mother Shipton requested Piney not to "chatter.