- The story deals with a certain mining camp in the West, around the time of '49, and the arrival of a young wife from the East with her little boy. The husband, one of the miners in the camp, dies, and the rough men gather to tell her of her loss. She does not survive the news long, and the little child is left alone. How the miners take up a collection for the "kid" contributing personal ornaments, revolvers, knives and even a whisky bottle, is laughable. Finally, the child, in playing near the camp, discovers gold, and this leads to its formal adoption by the camp.—Billboard synopsis
- Bret Harte's stories have for years stood as the standard of artistic and true delineation of Western life. In which field he was undoubtedly the first. Briefly, the story deals with a certain mining camp around the time of '49 and the arrival of a young wife from the east with her little boy. Her husband, who was one of the miners in the camp, has died, and it is left to the rough men gathered in the barroom on the widow's arrival to tell her of her loss. This they do in an uncouth way, but with some delicacy alter all. She does not long survive the news of the loss of her husband, and the little child is left alone lacking a mother's care in such incongruous surroundings. How the miners take up a collection for the "kid," contributing personal ornaments, revolvers, knives and even a whiskey bottle, is shown, grotesquely perhaps, but in such a way as to cause tears rather than laughter. Finally the child, in playing near the camp, discovers gold and this leads to its formal adoption by the camp.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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