He and Bret harte had been mates.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The Luck of Roaring Camp-Bret harte.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
It is a confused system of literary classification which does not permit calling these tales of harte and Kipling poetry, but crowns the same writers' doggerel verses like The Heathen Chinee and Fuzzy Wuzzy with the title "poems."
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell