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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
At nightfall it began to rain. The wind arose too, and also began to buffet a small, struggling, nondescript figure, creeping along the trail over the rocky upland meadow towards Rylands's rancho. At times its head was hidden in what appeared to be wings thrown upward from its shoulders; at times its broad-brimmed hat was cocked jauntily on one side, and again the brim was fixed over the face like a visor. At one moment a drifting misshapen mass of drapery, at the next its vague garments, beaten back hard against the figure, revealed outlines far too delicate for that rude enwrapping. For it was Mrs. Rylands herself, in her husband's hat and her "hired man's" old blue army overcoat, returning from the post-office two miles away.
Though this New York native didn't arrive in California until the age of 19, American author Bret Harte rose to literary acclaim on the strength of his stories set in the rough-and-tumble West of the 1800s. This collection of tales brings back fan favorite Jack Hamlin, a grizzled gambler with a heart of gold.