the thing of it is...

[Mark Mandel]

Thank you! Obviously it's a lot older than I thought.

I've always enjoyed Harte, so I searched for /"Bret Harte" "Dow's Flat"/ and
found it on Bartleby from the Yale Bk of Amer Verse (
http://www.bartleby.com/102/201.html). Thanks for that, too.

Mark

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Bret Harte uses it in his poem "Dow's Flat (1856)," published in June,
> 1870=
> .
>

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