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    Dick Spindlers Family Christmas
    Dick Spindlers Family Christmas
    Dick Spindlers Family Christmas
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    Dick Spindlers Family Christmas

    By Bret Harte

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    Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your ears, pictures of the Nativity Scene become ubiquitous, or maybe you even picture nutcrackers or Scrooge and Tiny Tim.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781614304319
    Dick Spindlers Family Christmas
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    Bret Harte

    Bret Harte (1836–1902) was an author and poet known for his romantic depictions of the American West and the California gold rush. Born in New York, Harte moved to California when he was seventeen and worked as a miner, messenger, and journalist. In 1868 he became editor of the Overland Monthly, a literary journal in which he published his most famous work, “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” In 1871 Harte returned east to further his writing career. He spent his later years as an American diplomat in Germany and Britain.

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      Dick Spindlers Family Christmas - Bret Harte

      Dick Spindler's Family Christmas

      There was surprise and sometimes disappointment in Rough and Ready, when it was known that Dick Spindler intended to give a family Christmas party at his own house. That he should take an early opportunity to celebrate his good fortune and show hospitality was only expected from the man who had just made a handsome strike on his claim; but that it should assume so conservative, old-fashioned, and respectable a form was quite unlooked-for by Rough and Ready, and was thought by some a trifle pretentious. There were not half-a-dozen families in Rough and Ready; nobody ever knew before that Spindler had any relations, and this ringing in of strangers to the settlement seemed to indicate at least a lack of public spirit. He might, urged one of his critics, hev given the boys,—that had worked alongside o’ him in the ditches by day, and slung lies with him around the camp-fire by night,—he might hev given them a square ‘blow out,’ and kep’ the leavin’s for his old Spindler crew, just as other families do. Why, when old man Scudder had his house-raisin’ last year, his family lived for a week on what was left over, arter the boys had waltzed through the house that night,—and the Scudders warn’t strangers, either. It was also evident that there was an uneasy feeling that Spindler’s action indicated an unhallowed leaning towards the minority of respectability and exclusiveness, and a desertion—without the excuse of matrimony—of the convivial and independent bachelor majority of Rough and Ready.

      Ef he was stuck after some gal and was kinder looking ahead, I’d hev understood it, argued another critic.

      "Don’t ye be too sure

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