Roughing It Part 7
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Description
This seventh part of Mark Twain's Roughing It opens at chapter sixty-one with Dick Baker, a pocket-miner of Dead-House Gulch, worn down by eighteen years of unrewarded toil. Twain calls him grave, simple, and slouchily dressed, with a heart finer than any gold his shovel ever found. When luck runs against him, Baker mourns a wonderful cat he once owned. Since men without women or children nearby, Twain notes, take up with pets because they must love something.
The cat story, famous in its own right, grows into a tall tale of mining, mourning, and animal cunning. Around it sit more camp scenes of hope, failure, and stubborn endurance. The part shows Twain at his most affectionate toward frontier losers. It closes the book's long arc from greenhorn traveller to a man who understands what the West cost the people who stayed.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 121 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |