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       Bret Harte

      Frontier Stories

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066196561

       FLIP: A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       "LIAR!"

       FOUND AT BLAZING STAR.

       "MISS MORTIMER."

       EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY!

       IN THE CARQUINEZ WOODS.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X.

       "NELLIE WYNN."

       AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL.

       PROLOGUE.

       I.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       A BLUE-GRASS PENELOPE

       I.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       V.

       LEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAIN.

       I.

       II.

       A SHIP OF '49.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       V.

       VI.

       VII.

       VIII.

       IX.

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

      Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like air, through rising dust, the slow creaking of dragging wheels, the monotonous cry of tired springs, and the muffled beat of plunging hoofs, it held out a promise of sheltered coolness and green silences beyond. Sunburned and anxious faces yearned toward it from the dizzy, swaying tops of stage-coaches, from lagging teams far below, from the blinding white canvas covers of "mountain schooners," and from scorching saddles that seemed to weigh down the scrambling, sweating animals beneath. But it would


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