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Title: First Fam'lies of the Sierras

Author: Joaquin Miller

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Language: English

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FIRST FAM'LIES OF THE SIERRAS.

By JOAQUIN MILLER

AUTHOR OF "SONGS OF THE SIERRAS," "SONGS OF THE SUN-LANDS," "THE SHIP IN
THE DESERT," ETC.

CHICAGO:
JANSEN, McCLURG & CO.
1876.

COPYRIGHT,
JANSEN, McCLURG & CO.
A. D. 1876.

LAKESIDE
PUBLISHING & PRINTING CO.
CHICAGO.

TO
MY OLD
COMPANION IN ARMS,
PRINCE JAMIE TOMAS,
OF
LEON, NICARAGUA.

CONTENTS.

IN THE FORKS

LITTLE BILLIE PIPER

THE FIRST WOMAN IN THE FORKS

SUNDAY IN THE SIERRAS

WASHEE-WASHEE

SOME UNWRITTEN HISTORY

THAT BOY

SANDY'S COURTSHIP

"THAT BOY" IS ILL

A SCENE IN THE SIERRAS

THE PARSON'S PURSUIT OF LOVE

GRIT

AN ANNOUNCEMENT

A WEDDING IN THE SIERRAS

WHAT'S THE MATTER NOW?

WAS THE WOMAN INSANE?

CAPTAIN TOMMY

"BLOOD!"

HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

A FLAG OF TRUCE

THE QUESTION NONE COULD ANSWER

DEBATABLE GROUND

ANOTHER WEDDING AT THE FORKS

THE JUDGE IS LONESOME

AFTER THE DELUGE--WHAT THEN?

THE WIDOW IN DISGRACE

BILLIE PIPER AND DEBOON

THE GOPHER

A NATURAL DEATH

A FUNERAL

THE CARAVAN OF DEATH

THE END

FIRST FAM'LIES OF THE SIERRAS.

CHAPTER I.

IN THE FORKS.

Now there was young Deboon from Boston, who was a very learned man. He
was in fact one of those fearfully learned men. He was a man who could
talk in all tongues--and think in none.

Perhaps he had sometime been a waiter.

I am bound to say that the most dreadfully learned young men I have ever
met are the waiters in the Continental hotels.

Besides that he was very handsome. He was, indeed, almost as handsome as
a French barber, or a first-clas