A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
Bret Harte
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
Bret Harte · English
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A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
Bret Harte · English
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A PROTEGEE OF JACK HAMLIN'S. I. The steamer Silveropolis was sharply and steadily cleaving the broad, placid shallows of the Sacramento River. A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees. The great boat itself—a vast but delicate structure of airy stories, hanging galleries, fragile colonnades, gilded cornices, and resplendent fres
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
Bret Harte
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