The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other SketchesMetropolitan Magazine Company, 1899 - 256 من الصفحات |
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... MLISS . THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER NOTES BY FLOOD AND FIELD BOHEMIAN PAPERS . MISSION DOLORES JOHN CHINAMAN FROM A BACK WINDOW BOONDER 141 184 · 198 237 242 248 • 253 THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP . HERE was commotion in.
... MLISS . THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER NOTES BY FLOOD AND FIELD BOHEMIAN PAPERS . MISSION DOLORES JOHN CHINAMAN FROM A BACK WINDOW BOONDER 141 184 · 198 237 242 248 • 253 THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP . HERE was commotion in.
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... loved ones who had perished , and among them I think I was the first to read the name of David Fagg . For the " man of no account " had " gone home ! " STORIES . MLISS . CHAPTER I. UST where the Sierra 138 THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT .
... loved ones who had perished , and among them I think I was the first to read the name of David Fagg . For the " man of no account " had " gone home ! " STORIES . MLISS . CHAPTER I. UST where the Sierra 138 THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT .
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... loved ones who had perished , and among them I think I was the first to read the name of David Fagg . For the " man of no account " had " gone home ! " STORIES . MLISS . CHAPTER I. UST where the Sierra 138 THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT .
... loved ones who had perished , and among them I think I was the first to read the name of David Fagg . For the " man of no account " had " gone home ! " STORIES . MLISS . CHAPTER I. UST where the Sierra 138 THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT .
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Bret Harte. MLISS . CHAPTER I. UST where the Sierra Nevada begins to sub- JUST side in gentler undulations , and the rivers grow less rapid and yellow , on the side of a great red mountain , stands " Smith's Pocket . " Seen from the ...
Bret Harte. MLISS . CHAPTER I. UST where the Sierra Nevada begins to sub- JUST side in gentler undulations , and the rivers grow less rapid and yellow , on the side of a great red mountain , stands " Smith's Pocket . " Seen from the ...
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Altascar asked baby beside Boonder boys BRET HARTE Brown cabin carpet-bag child Circassian Clytemnestra Clytie Commander dark Dedlow Marsh door drifting Duchess expressman eyes face Fagg father feet fire gambler George glance grave gray horse hair Hamlin hand head horse Jack Judge knew laugh lifted looked Luck lying Marysville master McSnagley Miggles Miss Mary Mission Dolores Mission hills Mliss Morpher Mother Shipton never night Oakhurst Paquita pardner passed Peleg perhaps pines Piney Poker Flat Rattler Red Gulch Red Mountain riata river road Roaring Camp Salvatierra San Carlos Sandy Bar school-house seemed shadow silence sitting smile Smith's Pocket stranger Stumpy suddenly Tennessee Tennessee's Partner thar ain't thing thought tion Tommy took tree Tryan turned Uncle Billy uncon voice walked wall wind window Wingdam woman young Yuba Bill
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الصفحة 10 - ... forth this naval ditty. Either through the peculiar rocking of Jack or the length of his song — it contained ninety stanzas, and was continued with conscientious deliberation to the bitter end — the lullaby generally had the desired effect. At such times the men would lie at full length under the trees, in the soft summer twilight, smoking their pipes and drinking in the melodious utterances. An indistinct idea that this was pastoral happiness pervaded the camp. "This ere kind o' think,"...
الصفحة 21 - Oakhurst," said the Innocent, pointing to the Duchess, "and I can shift for myself." Nothing but Mr. Oakhurst's admonishing foot saved Uncle Billy from bursting into a roar of laughter. As it was, he felt compelled to retire up the canon until he could recover his gravity.
الصفحة 6 - By the time he was a month old, the necessity of giving him a name became apparent. He had generally been known as "the Kid...
الصفحة 29 - m going," she said, in a voice of querulous weakness, "but don't say anything about it. Don't waken the kids. Take the bundle from under my head, and open it." Mr. Oakhurst did so. It contained Mother Shipton's rations for the last week, untouched. " Give 'em to the child," she said, pointing to the sleeping Piney.
الصفحة 63 - Bar — perhaps it was from something even better than that, but two thirds of the loungers accepted the invitation at once. It was noon when the body of Tennessee was delivered into the hands of his partner. As the cart drew up to the fatal tree, we noticed that it contained a rough oblong box — apparently made from a section of sluicing — and half filled with bark and the tassels of pine.
الصفحة 58 - I was passin' by," he began, by way of apology, " and I thought I'd just step in and see how things was gittin' on with Tennessee thar, — my pardner.
الصفحة 26 - didn't say cards once" during that evening. Haply the time was beguiled by an accordion, produced somewhat ostentatiously by Tom Simson from his pack. Notwithstanding some difficulties attending the manipulation of this instrument, Piney Woods managed to pluck several reluctant melodies from its keys, to an accompaniment by the Innocent on a pair of bone castinets.
الصفحة 19 - As he gazed at his recumbent fellow exiles, the loneliness begotten of his pariah trade, his habits of life, his very vices, for the first time seriously oppressed him. He bestirred himself in dusting his black clothes, washing his hands and face, and other acts characteristic of his studiously neat habits, and for a moment forgot his annoyance. The thought of deserting his weaker and more pitiable companions never perhaps occurred to him. Yet he could not help feeling the want of that excitement...