[Selected Stories by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookSelected Stories CHAPTER II 9/15
But don't you give anything to Clytie Morpher.
Don't you dare to.
Do you know what my opinion is of her, it is this, she is perfekly disgustin.
That is all and no more at present from Yours respectfully, MELISSA SMITH. The master sat pondering on this strange epistle till the moon lifted its bright face above the distant hills, and illuminated the trail that led to the schoolhouse, beaten quite hard with the coming and going of little feet.
Then, more satisfied in mind, he tore the missive into fragments and scattered them along the road. At sunrise the next morning he was picking his way through the palmlike fern and thick underbrush of the pine forest, starting the hare from its form, and awakening a querulous protest from a few dissipated crows, who had evidently been making a night of it, and so came to the wooded ridge where he had once found Mliss.
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