Excerpt from The Heart of It: A Romance of East and West
Only one man, clad in somewhat tattered buckskins, and near him there sprawled upon the ground, equally solitary, a long-legged, rough-coated, ill-conditioned mule.
The eyes of the mule were tightly shut, but those of the human being were open, and were gazing mournfully into a hole in the ledge of glittering quartz before which he was standing, and which flashed back upon him the hot rays of the morning sun.
Behind these two, in a grandly irregular oval, swept a vast natural amphitheatre, formed by the rugged cliffs that reached down from the Sierras to the endless levels of the South-western plains.
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