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              _Here's a health to thee, Tom Moore!_--BYRON



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                               TOM MOORE

                   _An_ Unhistorical Romance, Founded
                 _on_ Certain Happenings _in the_ Life
                      _of_ Ireland's Greatest Poet


                         By THEODORE BURT SAYRE


                   Author of "Two Summer Girls and I"
                     "The Son of Carleycroft," Etc.



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                        THE MUSSON CO., LIMITED
                                TORONTO




                            Copyright, 1902
                     By Frederick A. Stokes Company


                      Published in September 1902



                             FOURTH EDITION




                                  _To_
                              ANDREW MACK

      _With the author's grateful acknowledgment and appreciation
            of the convincing art and rare personal charm of
                 the actor