James D. Hague 



question as might lead to the convic- 

 tion of its original author ; and this 

 so stimulated further search that the 

 matter was much talked of, far and 

 wide, largely increasing the number 

 of active inquirers, among whom was 

 one in San Francisco, who so persis- 

 tently bored certain Union Club 

 companions that his unceasing im- 

 portunities naturally encouraged any- 

 body so disposed to trifle with his 

 credulity. 



About this time, also, there ap- 

 peared in the New Orleans Sunday 

 Times, a communication from a liter- 

 ary correspondent, purporting to give 

 the original source of the familiar 

 line in " verses written in an old 

 memorandum book, the author not 

 recollected," beginning with the words 

 " Sweetheart, goodbye ! the fluttering 

 sail," and ending aptly with the 

 quotation " Though lost to sight, to 

 memory dear," to embody which the 

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