OWENS PAID THE BET.
A Bret Harte story comes from Chicago, and concerns "bam" Davis, a Nevada editor and rancnmau. He was a contemporary of Bret Harte and Mark Twain on the Pacific coast, and soon after Harte’s sucoess made the remark that any modern author could be successfully ;imitated. Woodford Owens took him up, and bet an oyster and wine supper that Davis coulu not imitate Bret Harte. Inside a week Davis had written and published a poem eadod "Binley and ’46,” which was said to have been found in an old trunk which Bret Harte had left behind him on departing from San Francisco. The poem was copied all over the country and its authenticity was not questioned, one New York paper going so far as to reproduce it with illustrations. When that happened, Owens paid his bet*.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1628, 13 May 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)
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140OWENS PAID THE BET. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1628, 13 May 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)
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