A VISION OF THE FOUNTAIN by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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A young American man visiting a nearly deserted old abbey in England decides to take a swim in a secluded but inviting pond filled with crumbling statues. Suddenly a young lady enters from a hidden path, and not knowing for sure what to do, and not wanting to frighten or embarrass her, he becomes a statue some distance away through the reeds. To his surprise, she pulls out her sketchbook...
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Oh, You're going to be here. Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:49.2 | to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host, John Hagadorn. Today, another great |
| 0:55.1 | George story from Brett Hart, this one called A Vision of the Fountain. |
| 1:00.5 | And now our story. |
| 1:09.0 | Mr. Jackson Potter halted before the little cottage, half shop, half hostelry, opposite the great gates of Domes Day Park, |
| 1:11.0 | where tickets of admission to that venerable domain were sold. |
| 1:16.0 | Here Mr Potter revealed his nationality as a Western American, not only in his accent, but in a certain |
| 1:21.8 | half humorous, half practical questioning of the ticket |
| 1:25.1 | seller as that quasi-official stamped his ticket which was nevertheless |
| 1:29.6 | delivered with such unfailing good humor and such frank suggestiveness of the perfect equality |
| 1:35.1 | the ticket seller and the well-dressed stranger that, that far from producing any irritation. |
| 1:41.1 | It attracted the pleased attention not only the official, but his wife and daughter |
| 1:45.8 | and a customer. |
| 1:48.3 | Possibly the good looks of the stranger had something to do with it. |
| 1:51.8 | Jackson Potter was a singularly handsome young fellow with one of those |
| 1:55.1 | ideal faces and figures sometimes seen in Western frontier villages, attributable to |
| 2:00.3 | no ancestor but evolved possibly from novels and books devoured by ancestral |
| 2:05.0 | incestresses in the long solitary winter evenings of their lonely cabins on the |
| 2:09.2 | frontier. |
| 2:10.2 | A beardless classical head covered by short flocculent blonde curls, poised on a |
| 2:16.8 | shapely neck and shoulders, was more Greek and outline than suggestive of any ordinary |
| 2:21.5 | American type. |
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