THE THIRD CIRCLE

BY

FRANK NORRIS

AUTHOR OF "THE PIT," "THE OCTOPUS," ETC.

INTRODUCTION BY

WILL IRWIN

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
1909

CHEAP EDITION

Printed from electrotype plates
by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Third Circle
The House With the Blinds
Little Dramas of the Curbstone
Shorty Stack, Pugilist
The Strangest Thing
A Reversion to Type
"Boom"
The Dis-Associated Charities
Son of a Sheik
A Defense of the Flag
Toppan
A Caged Lion
"This Animal of a Buldy Jones"
Dying Fires
Grettir at Drangey
The Guest of Honour

Introduction

It used to be my duty, as sub editor of the oldSan Francisco Wave, to "put the paper tobed." We were printing a Seattle editionin those days of the Alaskan gold rush; and thelast form had to be locked up on Tuesday night,that we might reach the news stands by Friday.Working short-handed, as all small weeklies do,we were everlastingly late with copy or illustrationsor advertisements; and that Tuesday usuallystretched itself out into Wednesday. Most often,indeed, the foreman and I pounded the last quoininto place at four or five o'clock Wednesdaymorning and went home with the milk-wagons—torise at noon and start next week's paper going

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