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  LOVE SONNETS OF AN
  OFFICE BOY




  [Illustration]




  Love Sonnets of an
  Office Boy

  By
  Samuel Ellsworth Kiser

  Illustrated by
  John T. McCutcheon

  Forbes & Company
  Boston and Chicago
  1902

  _Copyright, 1902_
  BY SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER

  Published by arrangement with
  THE CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD

  Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed
  by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.




  LOVE SONNETS OF AN
  OFFICE BOY




  I.


  Oh, if you only knowed how much I like
    To stand here, when the "old man" ain't around,
    And watch your soft, white fingers while you pound
  Away at them there keys! Each time you strike
    It almost seems to me as though you'd found
  Some way, while writin' letters, how to play
    Sweet music on that thing, because the sound
  Is something I could listen to all day.

  You're twenty-five or six and I'm fourteen,
    And you don't hardly ever notice me--
    But when you do, you call me Willie! Gee,
  I wisht I'd bundles of the old long green
    And could be twenty-eight or nine or so,
    And something happened to your other beau.




  II.


  I heard the old man scoldin' yesterday
    Because your spellin'