The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

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Francis Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

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The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

PREFACE

The Luck of Roaring Camp

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

MIGGLES

Tennessee's Partner

The Idyl of Red Gulch

HIGH-WATER MARK

A LONELY RIDE

THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT

MLISS

THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER

NOTES BY FLOOD AND FIELD

THE MISSION DOLORES

JOHN CHINAMAN

FROM A BACK WINDOW

BOONDER

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Francis Bret Harte

Published by Good Press, 2020

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It needed but a glance to show them Kentuck lying there, cruelly crushed and bruised, but still holding the Luck of Roaring Camp in his arms. As they bent over the strangely assorted pair, they saw that the child was cold and pulseless. "He is dead," said one. Kentuck opened his eyes. "Dead?" he repeated feebly. "Yes, my man, and you are dying too." A smile lit the eyes of the expiring Kentuck. "Dying," he repeated, "he's a taking me with him—tell the boys I've got the Luck with me now"; and the strong man, clinging to the frail babe as a drowning man is said to cling to a straw, drifted away into the shadowy river that flows forever to the unknown sea.

The pines rocked, the storm eddied and whirled above the miserable group, and the flames of their altar leaped heavenward, as if in token of the vow.

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