Sally Dows And Other Stories Author:Bret Harte General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be t... more »ypos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUCKEYE CAMP. PART I. The tiny lights that had been far scattered and intermittent as fireflies all along the dark stream at last dropped out one by one, leaving only the three windows of " Parks' Emporium " to pierce the profoundly wooded banks of the South Fork. So all-pervading was the darkness that the mere opening of the " Emporium " front door shot out an illuminating shaft which revealed the whole length of the little main street of " Buckeye," while the simple passing of a single figure before one of the windows momentarily eclipsed a third of the settlement. This undue preeminence given to the only three citizens of Buckeye who were still up at ten o 'clock seemed to be hardly justified by their outward appearance, which was that of ordinary longbearded and long-booted river bar miners. Two sat upon the counter with their hands upon their knees, the third leaned beside the open window. It was very quiet. The faint, far barking of a dog, or an occasional subdued murmur from the river shallows, audible only when the wind rose slightly, helped to intensify their solitude. So supreme had it become that when the man at the window at last continued his conversation meditatively, with his face towards it, he seemed to be taking all Nature into his confidence. " The worst thing about it is, that the only way we can keep her out of the settlement is by the same illegal methods which we deplore in other camps. We ha...« less