Bret Harte: Likeness

“Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.”

Bret Harte

Adventures of John Longbowe, Yeoman.

“And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.”

Bret Harte

East and West Poems, Part I, The Old Major Explains.

“Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”

Bret Harte

East and West Poems, Part I, The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin.