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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,
