By Wallace Irwin

By Wallace Irwin

Author of The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Junior Etc. With a harmless and instructive Introduction by Wolfgang Copernicus Addleburger Professor of Literary Bi-Products University of Monte Carlo

Paul Elder & Company

San Francisco and New York

Muse of my native land, am I inspir'd? —Keats.

Copyright, 1908

by Paul Elder and Company

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE LOVE SONNETS OF A CAR CONDUCTOR

PROLOGUE

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EPILOGUE