LANTY FOSTER'S MISTAKE by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Oh, yeah. Let me lay it on the line. |
| 0:47.0 | This old got started with a slip of a song. The world was so much older than when you on our young. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome back everyone to 100 thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your |
| 1:06.3 | host John Haggadorn. Today another great story from Bret Hart, this one called |
| 1:12.1 | Lante Foster's mistake. |
| 1:15.0 | And now our story. |
| 1:17.6 | Lantie Foster was crouching on a low stool |
| 1:20.0 | before the dying kitchen fire, |
| 1:22.0 | the better to get its fading radiance on the book she was reading. |
| 1:25.5 | Beyond, through the open window and door, the fire was also slowly fading from the sky and the |
| 1:31.1 | mountain ridge once the sun had dropped half an hour before. |
| 1:35.4 | The view was uphill and the skyline of the hill was marked by two or three gibbet-like poles from which |
| 1:41.4 | on a now invisible line between them hung certain objects, mere black silhouettes |
| 1:46.5 | against the sky, which bore weird like just to human figures. |
| 1:51.1 | Absorned as she was in her book, she nevertheless occasionally cast an impatient glance in that direction as the sunlight faded more quickly than her fire. |
| 2:00.0 | For the fluttering objects were the weeks wash, which had to be brought in before night fell and the mountain wind arose. |
| 2:07.0 | It was strong at that altitude, and before this had ravished the clothes from the line, and scattered them along the high road leading over the ridge. |
| 2:16.0 | Once even lashing the shy schoolmaster with a pair of Lantie's own stockings and blinding the parson with a really tempestuous petticoat. |
| 2:25.0 | A whiff of wind down the big-throated chimney stirred the log embers on the hearth, |
| 2:30.0 | and the girl jumped to her feet, closing the book with an impatient snap. |
| 2:34.5 | She knew her mother's voice would follow. It was hard to leave her heroine at the crucial moment |
| 2:39.5 | of receiving an explanation from a presumed faithless lover, just to climb a hill and |
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