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Excerpt from Digging the Top Off: And Other StoriesAs this story, in its leading incidents, is a true one, perhaps I had better describe Joe Por ter, who is living to-day, grown to manhood, in one of our large western cities.In appearance he was a most unpromising lad. His face was very ruddy, and nearly as round as a plate. His eyes always half Shut, gave him a drowsy and peculiar look. They made him seem far away, and in speaking to him one ...

Excerpt from To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California, Oregon, and Washington Territory: With Sketches in Arizona, New Mexico and British Columbia The title of this book aptly expresses the char acter of its contents. Its chapters form a series of sketches, picturing such only of the scenes, events, incidents, industries, enterprises, institutions, and people of the coast as came within the writer's ob servation or knowledge, and as, it...

Excerpt from Digging the Top Off: And Other Stories "Joe, " called Captolia, the colored girl, from the kitchen door-way, "bring a lump of coal for the parlor grate, quick as you can." "All right, " shouted Joe, from the woodshed across the yard. After Captolia closed the door, the boy dealt a half-dozen terrific blows upon the ton of black carbon lying before him, thickly covered with ice and snow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publ...

Excerpt from To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California, Oregon, and Washington Territory: With Sketches in Arizona, New Mexico and British Columbia The title of this book aptly expresses the char acter of its contents. Its chapters form a series of sketches, picturing such only of the scenes, events, incidents, industries, enterprises, institutions, and people of the coast as came within the writer's ob servation or knowledge, and as, it...

To and fro in Southern California is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly pu...

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