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This book, as its title-page states, is made up of selections from the writings of California authors. Most of the selections refer to California--her scenic glories, mountains, valleys, skies, canyons, Yosemites, islands, foothills, plains, deserts, shoreline; her climatic charms, her flora and fauna, her varied population, her marvellous progress, her wonderful achievements, her diverse industries. Told by different authors, in both prose and poetry, the book is a unique presentation both of California and California writers. The Appendix gives further information (often asked for in vain) about the authors themselves and their work. It is the hope of the compiler that the taste given in these selections may lead many Californians to take a greater interest in the writings of their fellow citizens, and no interest pleases an author more than the purchase, commendation, and distribution of his book.If this unpretentious book gives satisfaction to the lovers of California, both in and out of the State, the compiler will reap his highest reward. If any suitable author has been left out the omission was inadvertent, and will gladly be remedied in future editions.Download The California Birthday Book Now!

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My recollections of Bret Harte begin with the arrest, on the Atlantic shore, of that progress of his from the Pacific Slope, which, in the simple days of 1871, was like the progress of a prince, in the universal attention and interest which met and followed it. He was indeed a prince, a fairy prince in whom every lover of his novel and enchanting art felt a patriotic property, for his promise and performance in those earliest tales of 'The Luck of Roaring Camp', and 'Tennessee's Partner', and 'Maggles', and 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat', were the earnests of an American literature to come. If it is still to come, in great measure, that is not Harte's fault, for he kept on writing those stories, in one form or another, as long as he lived. He wrote them first and last in the spirit of Dickens, which no man of his time could quite help doing, but he wrote them from the life of Bret Harte, on the soil and in the air of the newest kind of new world, and their freshness took the soul of his fellow-countrymen not only with joy, but with pride such as the Europeans, who adored him much longer, could never know in him.When the adventurous young editor who had proposed being his host for Cambridge and the Boston neighborhood, while Harte was still in San Francisco, and had not yet begun his princely progress eastward, read of the honors that attended his coming from point to point, his courage fell, as if he had perhaps, committed himself in too great an enterprise. Who was he, indeed, that he should think of making this "Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,"his guest, especially when he heard that in Chicago Harte failed of attending a banquet of honor because the givers of it had not sent a carriage to fetch him to it, as the alleged use was in San Francisco? Whether true or not, and it was probably not true in just that form, it must have been this rumor which determined his host to drive into Boston for him with the handsomest hack which the livery of Cambridge afforded, and not trust to the horse-car and the local expressman to get him and his baggage out, as he would have done with a less portentous guest. However it was, he instantly lost all fear when they met at the station, and Harte pressed forward with his cordial hand-clasp, as if he were not even a fairy prince, and with that voice and laugh which were surely the most winning in the world. He was then, as always, a child of extreme fashion as to his clothes and the cut of his beard, which he wore in a mustache and the drooping side-whiskers of the day, and his jovial physiognomy was as winning as his voice, with its straight nose and fascinating thrust of the under lip, its fine eyes, and good forehead, then thickly crowned with the black hair which grew early white, while his mustache remained dark the most enviable and consoling effect possible in the universal mortal necessity of either aging or dying. He was, as one could not help seeing, thickly pitted, but after the first glance one forgot this, so that a lady who met him for the first time could say to him, "Mr. Harte, aren't you afraid to go about in the cars so recklessly when there is this scare about smallpox?" "No, madam," he could answer in that rich note of his, with an irony touched by pseudo- pathos, "I bear a charmed life."Download A Belated Guest Now!

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A BELATED GUESTIt is doubtful whether the survivor of any order of things finds compensation in the privilege, however undisputed by his contemporaries, of recording his memories of it. This is, in the first two or three instances, a pleasure. It is sweet to sit down, in the shade or by the fire, and recall names, looks, and tones from the past; and if the Absences thus entreated to become Presences are those of famous people, they lend to the fond historian a little of their lustre, in which he basks for the time with an agreeable sense of celebrity. But another time comes, and comes very soon, when the pensive pleasure changes to the pain of duty, and the precious privilege converts itself into a grievous obligation. You are unable to choose your company among those immortal shades; if one, why not another, where all seem to have a right to such gleams of this 'dolce lome' as your reminiscences can shed upon them? Then they gather so rapidly, as the years pass, in these pale realms, that one, if one continues to survive, is in danger of wearing out such welcome, great or small, as met ones recollections in the first two or three instances, if one does one's duty by each. People begin to say, and not without reason, in a world so hurried and wearied as this: "Ah, here he is again with his recollections!" Well, but if the recollections by some magical good-fortune chance to concern such a contemporary of his as, say, Bret Harte, shall not he be partially justified, or at least excused? I.My recollections of Bret Harte begin with the arrest, on the Atlantic shore, of that progress of his from the Pacific Slope, which, in the simple days of 1871, was like the progress of a prince, in the universal attention and interest which met and followed it. He was indeed a prince, a fairy prince in whom every lover of his novel and enchanting art felt a patriotic property, for his promise and performance in those earliest tales of 'The Luck of Roaring Camp', and 'Tennessee's Partner', and 'Maggles', and 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat', were the earnests of an American literature to come. If it is still to come, in great measure, that is not Harte's fault, for he kept on writing those stories, in one form or another, as long as he lived. He wrote them first and last in the spirit of Dickens, which no man of his time could quite help doing, but he wrote them from the life of Bret Harte, on the soil and in the air of the newest kind of new world, and their freshness took the soul of his fellow-countrymen not only with joy, but with pride such as the Europeans, who adored him much longer, could never know in him.Download Belated Gues Now!

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TO THE READER John Henry Smith has requested me to revise and edit his diary, and, to use his own expression, See if I can make some kind of a book from it. It was his idea that I should eliminate certain marked passages, and disguise others, so as to conceal the identity of the originals. Since Mr. Smith is abroad I can do as I please. Aside from renaming his characters, I have left them exactly as he has drawn them. This may lead him to do his own editing in the future. I have also taken the liberty of reproducing some of the sketches made by Mr. Smith. In addition to literary, artistic, and athletic gifts Mr. Smith has had the rare good fortune to-but I must not anticipate his story. THE EDITOR Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. CONTENTS ENTRY NO. I. 11. 111. IV. v. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XN. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. Miss Harding is Coming Mainly about Smith . Mr. Harding Wins a Bet Bishops Hired Man . The Eagles Nest . I Play with Miss Harding Two Boys from Buckfield Downfall of Mr. Harding Mr. Smith Gets Busy . The Two Gladiators . The Barn Dance . The St. Andrews Swing Our New Professional . Myself and I The Auto and the Bull . Miss Harding Owns Up The Passing of Percy . Mr. Hardings Struggle . The Tornado xi PAGE 3 2 1 29 xii CONTENTS-Continued ENTRY NO. PAGE XX. Fat Ewes and Sharp Knives . 281 XXI. I am Entirely Satisfied . . 300 XXII. I am Utterly Miserable . 303 XXIII. A Few Closing Confessions 317 THE CHARACTERS JOHN HENRY S MITH, who tells the story. Heir of his father, lives in Woodvale club house, devoted to golf, becomes interested in Wall Street, and falls in love with Grace Harding GRACE HARDING, only daughter of Robert L. Harding, visitor in Woodvale ROBERT L . HARDING nl , i llionaire railway magnate, who first despises golf and then becomes infatuated with it MRS. H ARDING th , e matter-of-fact wife of the above JIM BISHOP, farmer near Woodvale, who knew Harding when the two were boys in Buckfield, Maine WILLIAMW ALLACEB, ishops hired man, later golf professional in Woodvale, and later something else OLIVE L AWRENC pu E p , i l to William Wallace PERCY LA HUME in , love with Miss Lawrence JAMES CARTER, wealthy member of Woodvale, who knows how to keep a secret MISS D ANGERFIEL w D ho , makes a collection of golf balls MISS Ross, who is very pretty MR. and MRS. CHILVERSa, n d MR. and MRS. MARSHALLe, s - timable young people, who enter into this narrative BOYD, LAWSON D , U FF, BELL, MONAHANET, C., members in good standing in the Woodvale Golf and Country Club and I got it ....................... Frontispiece 6 6 How do I look ............................ Title Page 6 c . and threw it in the pond . ................. 6 I Fore there hay there .......................... It makes an ideal hazard ........................ I 6 . but there was blood in his eye ............. Fore ......................................... There is no law to compel a man to play golf ........ We rested on top of the hill ....................... Did it hit you ................................. 6 I . and missed the ball by three inches ........ I6 It is not necessary to caution me .................. The dream ....................................... At the gate waiting for us ........................ cc Were not fighting, my dear ...................... It must be tough to have to wear skirts all the time ... What do you think of me ....................... Jack . . . n ever stopped a second ................

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Tall, narrow cartoon cards were the new big thing in greeting cards in 1958. When Hallmark Cards was printing official Christmas cards for President Eisenhower, the Eisenhowers asked Hallmark to also create a funny studio card that they could send to a few close friends. If you have one of the 200 cards that has a personal lip print (Mamie's) and a personal thumb print (Dwight's), you have a valuable collectible piece of cartoon art. And other studio cards from the 1950s and 1960s may become collectibles. Studio cards began in the 1940s in art studios in New York's Greenwich Village. A company called Panda Prints published the first humorous studio cards in 1947, and soon there were many small companies following that path. The major greeting card companies (Hallmark, American Greetings, Rust Craft, Norcross and Gibson) began publishing studio cards in 1956 and then the public general became aware of them. Hallmark named their cards Contemporary Cards, and American Greeting named theirs Hi Brows. Studio cards flourished into the 1980s and then became extinct in the 1990s, or perhaps it is more accurate to say that studio cards morphed into alternative humour greeting cards. When Hallmark and American Greetings discontinued the tall cards, their cartoonists easily moved into creating the cartoon cards you see in stores today. Hallmark calls theirs "Shoebox", and American Greetings call theirs "Just My Style". Dean Norman joined the Hallmark staff in 1956 a few months after their studio cards line was launched, and moved to American Greetings to draw Hi Brows cards from 1960 to 1990. His book, STUDIO CARDS...Funny Greeting Cards and People who Created Them is a collection of humorous stories about these writers and artists. The major companies hired young people out of college and art schools, and rarely gave them bylines or signatures on their work. Some of them worked for a career in greeting cards, and you may have never heard of them although you may have bought and sent many of their cards. Some moved into other fields of humour, and you may have heard of them. Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey. Paul Coker, a Mad Magazine cartoonist. Phil Hahn and Jack Hanrahan, writers for Rowan & Martins Laugh-In TV series. Tom Wilson, creator of Ziggy newspaper cartoon feature. Russell Myers, creator of Broom-Hilda comic strip. Robert Crumb, underground cartoonist featured in the documentary film titled Crumb. Herb Gardner, author of Broadway plays I'm Not Rappaport and A Thousand Clowns. Over 150 writers and artists are featured in the book, with illustrations from cards published by Hallmark, American Greetings, Panda Prints, Box Cards, Nellie Card Co., Bernad Creations, Dale Enterprises, Country Cousins, Comicana, Joy&Cheer and other cartoon art by the illustrators of studio cards. Also tossed into the mix are some funny stories about the CEO's of Hallmark and American Greetings, Joyce C, Hall and Irving Stone. Studio cards were funny, and not surprisingly, so were the people who created them.

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"Secrets of Finding Your 'ONE and ONLY' with Online Dating!"I know what you're looking for...You're looking for SOMEONE. ANYONE!Anyone that fits your highly detailed list of qualifications that is. Well GOOD.If you've ever thought you could use those online dating services you've heard about to find a special someone... you were absolutely right. You can! Thousands have and thousands will continue to!In fact, thousands of people just like you are looking to meet someone right now. It's time to get serious. It's time to take the guessing out of the game. It's time to take the matchmaking world by storm with our guide..."...Finding The "ONE" Online!"If you are a sexual creature, you can find a meaningful relationship through online matchmaking.If all you are looking for is sex, you will find it. If you want a relationship, there are certain ways to go about it and there are certain ways to not. Don't embarrass yourself. Do things the right way the first time.Gone are the days when parents stuck kids in a room and tried to force sparks to fly. And face it, high school sweethearts just aren't common anymore. People are getting married later in life more now than ever.The Internet has revolutionized dating. Picture this scenario:You see someone who you find attractive. Score one point.You approach them and they seem nice. Score another point.You start dating and think you like them. Another point for you.Then the person's true colors come out... It's a disaster. Lose all points and take a kick in the rear.Who has time for this kind of drama? With online dating, the process is in reverse. Now you can approach a person with certain qualifications in mind besides looks. Do you want a homebody who likes to curl up and watch movies or are you looking for an outdoor type. Just read the profile!By the time you find someone with similar interests, you'll have an idea of what kind of person they are...and know if they're worth talking to or not. It's efficient dating for the busy person."It's about time this dating business became efficient!"My guide , "Finding The "ONE" Online!" is a thoroughly researched guide on how to best present yourself and find a meaningful relationship online. It is an amazing guide that you can refer back to at anytime.Here is just SOME of the information you will find inside: * Learn why the days of judging people by appearance are over. * Understand why sex takes a backseat to many other factors in a relationship. * Discover how online dating is just a NEW approach to an OLD tradition. * Realize that none of James Bonds' relationships worked anyway... and how that applies to you and your relationships. * Understand what you need to stay guarded about when you first get to know each other. * Learn 4 ways to tell if someone is lying to you or not. * Realize that searching for FRIENDS online can get you the best results. * Understand why the line, "This is me whether you like it or not," can come from insecurity and how it affects your image. * Understand why putting together a profile of yourself is serious business. * Learn when the appropriate time to meet someone in person is and some tips for setting it up. * Realize how people can get to know each other before even meeting... making the chances of success even greater! * Realize why it's so important that a couple have the same intentions. * Discover how to make sure you're on their mind AFTER the date. * Understand why the first thing to do is NOT run straight for a "singles" chat room. * Learn what makes a good "handle" and which ones to avoid! ex. MEGASTUD! * Understand why it's best to plan before you start searching for a partner. * Understand why you should be completely honest with potential partners. * Learn to keep track of multiple prospects' information without embarrassing yourself.

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