HIGH WATER MARK by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 15 August 2021
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:33.4 | Today's stories from Brett Hart, |
| 0:35.1 | one of the most influential writers |
| 0:36.6 | of the Gold Rush era in the United States. |
| 0:39.6 | And now High Water, by Brett Hart. |
| 0:44.0 | When the tide was out in the dead low marsh, its extended dreariness was patent. |
| 0:49.0 | Its spongy, low-lined surface, sluggish, inky pools, and torturous sloughs, twisting their slimy way eel-like toward |
| 0:56.8 | the open bay were all hard facts. |
| 0:59.9 | So were the few green tusics with their scant blades, their amphibious flavor, and |
| 1:04.7 | unpleasant dampness. If you chose to indulge your fancy, although the flat |
| 1:10.0 | monotony of the Dead Low Marsh was not inspiring. The wavy line of |
| 1:13.8 | scattered drift gave an unpleasant consciousness of the spent waters and made the |
| 1:18.1 | dead certainty of the returning tide a gloomy reflection which no present |
| 1:22.3 | sunshine could dissipate. |
| 1:24.6 | The greener meadowlands seemed oppressed with this idea and made no positive attempt at vegetation |
| 1:29.7 | until the work of reclamation should be complete. In the bitter fruit of the low cranberry bushes, |
| 1:35.8 | one might fancy he detected a naturally sweet disposition curdled and soured by an injudicious |
| 1:41.5 | course of too much regular cold water. |
| 1:45.8 | But if Dead Low Marsh was cheerless at the slack of the low tide, you should have seen |
| 1:49.9 | it when the tide was strong and full. |
| 1:52.6 | When the damp air blew chilly over the cold glittering expanse and came to the faces of those |
| 1:57.1 | who looked seaward like another tide. |
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