Writer: Bret Harte

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. URBAN SKETCHES by Bret Harte CONTENTS A VENERABLE IMPOSTOR FROM A BALCONY MELONS SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MASTER CHARLES SUMMERTON SIDEWALKINGS A BOY’S DOG CHARITABLE REMINISCEN

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. Under the Redwoods by Bret Harte CONTENTS JIMMY’S BIG BROTHER FROM CALIFORNIA THE YOUNGEST MISS PIPER A WIDOW OF THE SANTA ANA VALLEY THE MERMAID OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT UNDER THE EAVES

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. TRENT’S TRUST AND OTHER STORIES by Bret Harte CONTENTS TRENT’S TRUST MR. MACGLOWRIE’S WIDOW A WARD OF COLONEL STARBOTTLE PROSPER’S “OLD MOTHER” THE CONVALESCENCE OF JACK HAMLIN A PUPIL OF CHESTNUT RIDGE

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. The Twins of Table Mountain by Bret Harte CONTENTS I. THE TWINS OF TABLE MOUNTAIN II. AN HEIRESS OF RED DOG III. THE GREAT DEADWOOD MYSTERY IV. A LEGEND OF SAMMTSTADT V. VIEWS FROM A GERMAN SPION THE TWINS OF TABLE MOUNTAIN. CHAPTER I. A CLOUD ON

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. THE THREE PARTNERS by Bret Harte PROLOGUE. The sun was going down on the Black Spur Range. The red light it had kindled there was still eating its way along the serried crest, showing through gaps in the ranks of pines, etching out the interstices of broken

THE STORY OF A MINE by Bret Harte UDO BRACHVOGEL, Esq., Whose clever translations of my writings have helped to introduce me to the favor of his countrymen, both here and in Germany, this little volume is heartily dedicated. BRET HARTE. New York, December, 1877. THE STORY OF A MINE CHAPTER I WHO SOUGHT IT

THE HERITAGE OF DEDLOW MARSH and Other Tales by Bret Harte CONTENTS. THE HERITAGE OF DEDLOW MARSH A KNIGHT-ERRANT OF THE FOOT-HILLS A SECRET OF TELEGRAPH HILL CAPTAIN JIM’S FRIEND THE HERITAGE OF DEDLOW MARSH. I. The sun was going down on the Dedlow Marshes. The tide was following it fast as if to meet

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. THE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIOR by Bret Harte CONTENTS. PART I.–IN BONDS. CHAPTER I. A CRUSADER AND A SIGN CHAPTER II. ANOTHER PORTENT CHAPTER III. “VIGILANCIA” CHAPTER IV. IN THE FOG CHAPTER V. TODOS SANTOS CHAPTER VI. “HAIL AND FAREWELL” CHAPTER VII. THE GENTLE CASTAWAYS CHAPTER VIII.

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL’S by Bret Harte CONTENTS THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL’S JOHNNYBOY YOUNG ROBIN GRAY THE SHERIFF OF SISKYOU A ROSE OF GLENBOGIE THE MYSTERY OF THE HACIENDA CHU CHU MY FIRST BOOK THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL’S CHAPTER I. Where the North Fork of the Stanislaus

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. THE ARGONAUTS OF NORTH LIBERTY by Bret Harte PART I CHAPTER I The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless on the seventh, when the Sabbath

THANKFUL BLOSSOM by BRET HARTE I The time was the year of grace 1779; the locality, Morristown, New Jersey. It was bitterly cold. A northeasterly wind had been stiffening the mud of the morning’s thaw into a rigid record of that day’s wayfaring on the Baskingridge road. The hoof-prints of cavalry, the deep ruts left