Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement
Bret Harte (2001). “The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings”, p.218, Penguin
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