ALEXANDER IRVINE
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF "FROM THE BOTTOM UP," ETC.

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1914
Copyright 1913, by The Century Co. Published, August, 1913
TO LADY GREGORY AND THE PLAYERS OF THE ABBEY THEATRE DUBLIN
FOREWORD
This book is the torn manuscript of the most beautiful life I ever knew. I have merely pieced and patched it together, and have not even changed or disguised the names of the little group of neighbors who lived with us, at "the bottom of the world." A. I.