...juices of the weed Nicotian, Came these hollow accents, blent with softer murmurs Of expectoration ; " Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted Falling...kindly if you'd send the pieces Home to old Missouri ! " 43 THE BALLAD OF MR. COOKE (A LEGEND OF THE CLIFF HOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO) WHERE the sturdy ocean...

...juices of the weed Nicotian, Came these hollow accents, blent with softer murmurs Of expectoration ; " Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted Falling...kindly if you'd send the pieces Home to old Missouri ! " 48 THE BALLAD OF MR. COOKE (A LEGEND OF THE CLIFF HOUSE, SAN FEANCISCO) WHERE the sturdy ocean...

...juices of the weed Nicotian, Came these hollow accents, blent with softer murmurs Of expectoration : "Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted...kindly if you'd send the pieces Home to old Missouri!" BRET HARTB. 80 ANGLING FOR MERMAIDS Angling for mermaids, — always choose With greatest care the...

...juices of the weed Nicotian, Came these hollow accents, blent with softer murmurs Of expectoration: " Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted Falling...kindly if you'd send the pieces Home to old Missouri ! " Bret Harte. ODE TO WORK IN SPRINGTIME On, would that working I might shun, From labour my connection...

...juices of the weed Nicotian, Came these hollow accents, blent with softer murmurs Of expectoration: " Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted Falling down a shaft in Calaveras county, But I 'd take it kindly if you 'd send the pieces Home to old Missouri!" Pioneering in the West marked...

...the wondrous secret of thy past existence — Speak thou oldest primate! Which my name is Bowers and crust was busted Falling down a shaft in Calaveras...kindly if you'd send the pieces Home to old Missouri. (Harte 1886:256-257) But not everyone agreed with this assessment. Two major critics, William H. Holmes...

...juices of the weed nicotian, Came these hollow accents, blent with softer murmurs Of expectoration: Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted Falling...I'd take it kindly if you'd send the pieces Home to Missouri!" Altaville did supply rich pockets of gold to miners, but it was an important supply point...

...juices of the weed Nicotian, Came these hollow accents, blent with softer murmurs Of expectoration : " Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted Falling...kindly if you'd send the pieces Home to old Missouri ! " We may add, that further investigation by the editor of The Pacific, a shrewd old Californiau and...

...of Bret Harte, in which he humorously puts down the Calaveras skull to a miner from Missouri, — " But I'd take it kindly if you'd send the pieces home to old Missouri," — is true so far as the mining is concerned, and M. Simonin was not so wide of the mark as appears...