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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands by Bret Harte.
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MRS. SKAGGS’S HUSBANDS.
PART I—WEST.
The sun was rising in the foot-hills. But for
an hour the black mass of Sierra eastward of Angel’s
had been outlined with fire, and th...
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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands
Francis Brett Harte
(Francis) Bret(t) Harte
