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The Luck of Roaring Camp ; Susy
Author: Bret HarteThe luck of Roaring Camp. Susy, a story of the plains
Author: Bret HarteSusy, a Story of the Plains
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Susy, a Story of the Plains
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Susy, a Story of the Plains" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Excerpt from The Luck of Roaring Camp: Susy, a Story of the Plains A Series of designs - suggested, I think, by Hogarth's familiar cartoons of the Industrious and Idle Apprentices - I remember as among the earliest efforts at moral teaching in California. They represented the respective careers of The Honest and Dissolute Miners: the one, as I recall him, retrograding through successive planes of dirt, drunkenness, disease, and death; the other advancing by corresponding stages to affluence and a white shirt. Whatever may have been the artistic defects of these drawings, the moral at least was obvious and distinct. That it failed, however, - as it did, - to produce the desired reform in mining morality may have been owing to the fact that the average miner refused to recognize himself in either of these positive characters; and that even he who might have sat for the model of the Dissolute Miner was perhaps dimly conscious of some limitations and circumstances which partly relieved him from responsibility. "Yer see," remarked such a critic to the writer, in the untranslatable poetry of his class, "it ain't no square game. They've just put up the keerds on that chap from the start." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Susy, a Story of the Plains
Author: Bret HartePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502415684
Category : Fiction
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Susy, a story of the Plains by Bret Harte.
Susy, a Story of the Plains
Author: Bret HarteSusy, a Story of the Plains
Author: Bret HartePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368437259
Category : Fiction
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The Works of Bret Harte; The Luck of Roaring Camp Susy
Author: Bret HartePublisher: Foley Press
ISBN: 1443712949
Category : Fiction
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The Works Of Bret Harte; The Luck Of Roaring Camp Susy. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Susy, a Story of the Plains
Author: Bret HartePublisher: VM eBooks
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Pages : 173
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CHAPTER I. Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, and interminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat and dust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats on either side illimitable, and the distant horizon apparently remoter than ever, it suddenly slips between a stunted thicket or hedge of "scrub oaks," which until that moment had been undistinguishable above the long, misty, quivering level of the grain. The thicket rising gradually in height, but with a regular slope whose gradient had been determined by centuries of western trade winds, presently becomes a fair wood of live-oak, and a few hundred yards further at last assumes the aspect of a primeval forest. A delicious coolness fills the air; the long, shadowy aisles greet the aching eye with a soothing twilight; the murmur of unseen brooks is heard, and, by a strange irony, the enormous, widely-spaced stacks of wild oats are replaced by a carpet of tiny-leaved mosses and chickweed at the roots of trees, and the minutest clover in more open spaces. The baked and cracked adobe soil of the now vanished plains is exchanged for a heavy red mineral dust and gravel, rocks and boulders make their appearance, and at times the road is crossed by the white veins of quartz. It is still the San Leandro turnpike,—a few miles later to rise from this canada into the upper plains again,—but it is also the actual gateway and avenue to the Robles Rancho.
