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Title: The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems

Author: Frances Fuller Victor

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Language: English

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THE NEW PENELOPE

AND

OTHER STORIES AND POEMS.

BY

Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor.

San Francisco:
A. L. BANCROFT & COMPANY, PRINTERS.
1877.

Copyright, 1877, by
MRS. FRANCES FULLER VICTOR.

PREFACE.

This collection consists of sketches of Pacific Coast life, most of
which have appeared, from time to time, in the _Overland Monthly_, and
other Western magazines. If they have a merit, it is because they
picture scenes and characters having the charm of newness and
originality, such as belong to border life.

The poems embraced in the collection, have been written at all periods
of my life, and therefore cannot be called peculiarly Western. But they
embody feelings and emotions common to all hearts, East or West; and as
such, I dedicate them to my friends on the Pacific Coast, but most
especially in Oregon.

Portland, August, 1877.

CONTENTS.

STORIES.
PAGE

The New Penelope 9
A Curious Interview 80
Mr. Ela's Story 96
On the Sands 112
An Old Fool 132
How Jack Hastings Sold His Mine 180
What They Told Me at Wilson's Bar 197
Miss Jorgensen 212
Sam Rice's Romance 231
El Tesoro 247

POEMS.

A Pagan Reverie 269
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