Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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The Writings of Bret Harte
Author: Bret HarteThe Writings of Bret Harte: Maruja and other tales
Author: Bret HarteThe Writings of Bret Harte
Author: Bret HarteThe Writings of Bret Harte
Author: Bret HarteThe Writings of Bret Harte
Author: Bret HartePublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458911957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1896. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... MARUJA AND OTHER TALES MARUJA CHAPTER I Mornino was breaking on the highroad to San Jose." The long lines of dusty, level track were beginning to extend their vanishing point in the growing light; on either side the awakening fields of wheat and oats were stretching out and broadening to the sky. In the east and south the stars were receding before the coming day; in the west a few still glimmered, caught among the bosky hills of the canada del Raimundo, where night seemed to linger. Thither some obscure, low-flying birds were slowly winging; thither a gray coyote, overtaken by the morning, was awkwardly limping. And thither a tramping wayfarer turned, ploughing through the dust of the highway still unslaked by the dewless night, to climb the fence and likewise seek the distant cover. For some moments man and beast kept an equal pace and gait with a strange similarity of appearance and expression; the coyote bearing that resemblance to his more civilized and harmless congener, the dog, which the tramp bore to the ordinary pedestrians, but both exhibiting the same characteristics of lazy vagabondage and semi-lawlessness; the coyote's slouching amble and uneasy stealthiness being repeated in the tramp's shuffling step and sidelong glances. Both were young, and physically vigorous, but both displayed the same vacillating and awkward disinclination to direct effort. They continued thus half a mile apart unconscious of each other, until the superior faculties of the brute warned him of the contiguity of aggressive civilization, and he cantered off suddenly to the right, fully five minutes before the barking of dogs caused the man to make a detour to the left to avoid entrance upon a cultivated domain that lay before him. The trail he took led to one' of the sca...
Maruja and other tales
Author: Bret HarteThe Writings of Bret Harte: Cressy and other tales
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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The Writings of Bret Harte
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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The Writings of Bret Harte: Three partners, and other tales [c1900
Author: Bret HarteThe Writings of Bret Harte: Three partners and other tales
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description