William F. Kirk is no longer a resident of Milwaukee, he
having been called to a larger sphere of work on New York
papers. But for a period of some eight or ten years he
endeared himself to the readers of the Milwaukee Sentinel by
his daily column. In it he had many quips which reminded one
of Eugene Field in his "Sharps and Flats." But perhaps the
most popular type of his work appeared in his "Norsk
Nightingale" sketches, of which one is here given.