over the roof, and the roar and rushof the swollen river were heard below, Tennessee's Partner lifted hishead from the Pillow, saying, "It is time to go for Tennessee; I mustput Jinny in the cart;" and would have risen from his bed but for therestraint of his attendant. Struggling, he still pursued his singularfancy: "There, now, steady, Jinny,--steady, old girl. How dark it is!Look out for the ruts,--and look out for him, too, old gal. Sometimes,you know, when he's blind drunk, he drops down right in the trail. Keepon straight up to the pine on the top of the hill. Thar! I told youso!--thar he is,--coming this way, too,--all by himself, sober, and hisface a-shining. Tennessee! Pardner!"
And so they met.
Here ends No. Three of the western classics, Being Tennessee's Partnerby Bret Harte, the introduction by William Dallam Armes. Thephotogravure frontispiece by Albertine Randall Wheelan. Of this FirstEdition One Thousand Copies have been issued, printed upon Fabrianohandmade paper. The typography designed by J. H. Nash. Published by PaulElder and Company, and done into a book for them at the Tomoye Press,New York City, in the year Nineteen Hundred and Seven.
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