THE MERMAID OF LIGHTHOUSE POINT by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone the one thousand one classic short stories entails. This is your host |
| 0:33.8 | John Haggadorn. It's been a while since we've done a Brett Hart story and I have a |
| 0:38.1 | great one for you today. It's called The Mermaid of Lighthouse Point. Hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:44.0 | Some 40 years ago, on the northern coast of California, |
| 0:49.0 | near the Golden Gate, stood a lighthouse |
| 0:51.0 | of a primitive class since superseded by a building more in keeping with the growing magnitude of the adjacent port. |
| 0:58.0 | It attracted little attention from the desolate shore and it was alleged still less from the desolate shore, and it was alleged, still less from the desolate sea beyond. |
| 1:05.8 | A gray structure of timber, stone, and glass. |
| 1:10.1 | It was buffeted and harried by the constant trade winds, baked by the unclouded six-month sun, |
| 1:16.4 | lost for a few hours in the afternoon sea fog, and laughed over by circling gulamots from the Farallones. It was kept by a reckless. A preoccupied |
| 1:26.6 | man of scientific taste, who, in shameless contrast to his fellow immigrants, had applied |
| 1:32.1 | to the government for the scarcely lucrative |
| 1:34.0 | position as a means of securing the seclusion he valued more than gold. Some |
| 1:39.7 | believed that he was the victim of an early disappointment in love, a view charitably taken by those |
| 1:45.0 | who also believed that the government would not have appointed a crank to a position of responsibility. |
| 1:51.9 | Howbeit he fulfilled his duties, and with the assistance of an Indian, he even cultivated a small |
| 1:57.7 | patch of ground beside the lighthouse. |
| 2:00.8 | His isolation was complete. |
| 2:03.0 | There was little to attract wanderers here. |
| 2:06.0 | The nearest mines were 50 miles away. |
| 2:08.0 | The virgin forest on the mountains inland were penetrated only by sawmills and woodmen from the bay settlements, equally remote. |
| 2:17.0 | Although by the shoreline, the lights of the great port were sometimes plainly visible, |
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