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Maruja
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By Bret Harte 24 Oct, 2019
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Excerpt......Morning was breaking on the high road 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 b ... Read more
Excerpt......Morning was breaking on the high road 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, plowing through the dust of the highway still unslaked by the dewless night, to climb the fence and likewise seek the distant cover. Less
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  • 2010-08-04
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  • 978-1421894119
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Bret Harte
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Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902), was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other roma...
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