Now mine’s a cheerful heart love,

Wilt mingle it with thine?

The cup we’ll quaff together,

And thus our fates entwine.


Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Punctuation and obvious type-setting errors have been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the eBook.

page 4, his voice faultered on ==> his voice [faltered] on

page 20, customary slouching gate, ==> customary slouching [gait],

page 24, Ellsler’s castinets in the ==> Ellsler’s [castanets] in the