. McClure's magazine. eseweresufficientpass-words,them out on the covers, and then called and never failed to call forth the cheeryMrs. Field. As she came in she said: voice from Fields room: Thats all right, Why, what are you doing with all that show him in here; hes a friend of And then,after a grip of the hand and some Field, laughing, snatched the bills up talk over former experiences—which Fieldand tucked them under the pillow, say- may or may not have remembered, but al-ing : You shant have it, this is my ways pretended to—the inevitable half dol-money. After his death the bi
. McClure's magazine. eseweresufficientpass-words,them out on the covers, and then called and never failed to call forth the cheeryMrs. Field. As she came in she said: voice from Fields room: Thats all right, Why, what are you doing with all that show him in here; hes a friend of And then,after a grip of the hand and some Field, laughing, snatched the bills up talk over former experiences—which Fieldand tucked them under the pillow, say- may or may not have remembered, but al-ing : You shant have it, this is my ways pretended to—the inevitable half dol-money. After his death the bills, all lar or dollar was forthcoming, and anothercrumpled up, were found still under his unfortunate went out into the world bless-pillow. ing the name of a man who, whether he It was a common happening in the was orthodox or not in his religious views,News office, while Mr. Field still did always acted up to the principle that it ishis work there, for some ragged, unwashed, more blessed to give than to THE LAST PORTRAIT OF EUGENE FIELD. From a copyrighted photograph by Place & Coover, Chicago; repro-duced by permission of the Etching Publishing Co., Chicago. 140 EUGENE FIELD AND HIS CHILD FRIENDS. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD, BY EUGENE FIELD. The choicest literary expression of Eugene Fields intimacy with the children is found in four volumespublished by Messrs. Charles Scribners Sons— A Little Book of Western Verse, Second Book of Verse, With Trumpet and Drum, and Love-Songs of Childhood. It is only a few years since the earliest ofthese was published ; but no books are better known, and they hold in the hearts of their readers the samefond place that their author held in the hearts of the children whose thoughts and adventures he so aptlyand tenderly portrayed. By the kind permission of the publishers, we reproduce here a few of the bestknown of the poems, adding pictures of the particular child friends of Mr. Field who inspired them. Theselections are from the last
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