Tappan's Burro, and Other Stories
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Excerpt: "Tappan gazed down upon the newly-born little burro with something of pity and consternation. It was not a vigorous offspring of the redoubtable Jennie, champion of all the numberless burros he had driven in his desert-prospecting years. He could not leave it there to die. Surely it was not strong enough to follow its mother. And to kill it was beyond him. "Poor little devil!" soliloquized Tappan. "Reckon neither Jennie nor I wanted it to be born... I'll have to hold up in this camp a few days. You can never tell what a burro will do. It might fool us an' grow strong all of a sudden." Whereupon Tappan left Jennie and her tiny, gray lop-eared baby to themselves, and leisurely set about making permanent camp. The water at this oasis was not much to his liking, but it was drinkable, and he felt he must put up with it. For the rest the oasis was desirable enough as a camping site. Desert wanderers like Tappan favored the lonely water holes. This one was up under the bold brow of the Chocolate Mountains, where rocky wall met the desert sand, and a green patch of palo verdes and mesquites proved the presence of water. It had a magnificent view down a many-leagued slope of desert growths, across the dark belt of green and the shining strip of red that marked the Rio Colorado, and on to the upflung Arizona land, range lifting to range until the saw-toothed peaks notched the blue sky."
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Grey, Z. (2020). Tappan's Burro, and Other Stories. [United States], Otbebookpublishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Grey, Zane. 2020. Tappan's Burro, and Other Stories. [United States], Otbebookpublishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Grey, Zane, Tappan's Burro, and Other Stories. [United States], Otbebookpublishing, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Grey, Zane. Tappan's Burro, and Other Stories. [United States], Otbebookpublishing, 2020.
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