EAST AND WEST POEMS By Bret Harte CONTENTS A Greyport Legend A Newport Romance The Hawk's Nest In the Mission Garden The Old Major Explains "Seventy-Nine" Truthful James's Answer to "Her Letter" Further Language from Truthful James The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin On a Cone of the Big Trees A Sanitary Message The Copperhead On a Pen of Thomas Starr King Lone Mountain California's Greeting to Seward The Two Ships The Goddess Address The Lost Galleon The Second Review of the Grand Army Before the Curtain The Stage-Driver's Story Aspiring Miss de Laine California Madrigal St. Thomas Ballad of Mr. Cooke Legends of the Rhine Mrs. Judge Jenkins: Sequel to Maud Muller Avitor A White Pine Ballad Little Red Riding-Hood The Ritualist A Moral Vindicator Songs without Sense BRET HARTE'S WRITINGS FRONTIER STORIES CONTENTS FLIP: A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. FOUND AT BLAZING STAR. IN THE CARQUINEZ WOODS. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL. A BLUE-GRASS PENELOPE LEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAIN. A SHIP OF '49. SALOMY JANE By Bret Harte WITH ILLUSTRATIONS CONTENTS I A KISS AND AN ESCAPE 1 II THE LADY'S REFLECTIONS 19 III THE KISS REPEATED 35 IV ANOTHER ESCAPE 59 THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE By Bret Harte Illustrated By Kate Greenaway ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE MRS SMITH 7 POLLY 10 BEGGAR CHILD 12 SCHOOL MISTRESS 12 INDIAN MAIDEN 13 PROUD LADY 14 CHINESE JUNK 15 SWIMMING FOR HIS LIFE 16 A TENT 17 CAPTURE OF MERCHANTMAN 18 AT SUPPER 20 POLLY IN THE BRANCHES 23 PATSEY 25 SLUMGULLION 28 EACH OTHER'S HANDS 30 EDGE OF CLIFF 31 SLIDING DOWN HILL 32 PIG TAIL ROPE 34 FIREWORKS IN CAVE 37 LADY MARY'S HAIR GONE 39 INVISIBLE MEDICINE 42 CLAD IN DEEPEST MOURNING 44 BROTHER STEP-AND-FETCH-IT 48 WAN LEE 54 NOT ALWAYS PIRATES 56 POLLY BROUGHT HOME 58 ASLEEP WITH DOLL 60 HER LETTER His Answer & Her Last Letter By BRET HARTE Pictured by ARTHUR I KELLER PAGE I'm sitting alone by the fire Dressed just as I came from the dance. (In color) Frontispiece Title. (In color) Publishers' Note—Headpiece 5 List of Designs—Headpiece 7