Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . Just such a man was EugeneField, who wrote this Sceiri Things at Night, Hewrote a number of books for older people, but it ischiefly for his poems to children and about childrenthat he is remembered. AVe know some rather interesting things aboutFields childhood. His mother died when he wasonly seven years old, and he was taken from Mis-souri to Amherst, JNIassachusetts, to be brought uj)by a cousin. His grandmother, who was very relig-ious, saw that he was a bright boy, and hop
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . Just such a man was EugeneField, who wrote this Sceiri Things at Night, Hewrote a number of books for older people, but it ischiefly for his poems to children and about childrenthat he is remembered. AVe know some rather interesting things aboutFields childhood. His mother died when he wasonly seven years old, and he was taken from Mis-souri to Amherst, JNIassachusetts, to be brought uj)by a cousin. His grandmother, who was very relig-ious, saw that he was a bright boy, and hoped thathe would be a preacher when he grew up. Just toget him into the habit, she used to pa)^ him to writesermons, and it must have been a funny thing tosee the child, who can never have been a very seriousboy, bending over his sermons, bound to win hisninepence. When he became a man he used to smileat these sermons, especially at one in which he hadsaid, Oh, it is hard, indeed, for sinners to go downto perdition over all the obstacles God has placed inhis path! Certainly the sermon-writing failed to make a 242. KuGENE Field 243 l)reiicher of Field. After he left c()lle<^e he took Jitrip to Europe, and heeiiiise he spent theie all thefortune that had been left him, lie found on hisreturn that he would have to vvoriv hard for a did not take him lon^ to deeide what he wantedto do; there was nothing that interested him morethan newspaper work, and all the rest of his life hewas engaged in that, working first on one paper,then on another. And in every plaee his brightnessand cleverness made his department of the papervery popular. In some ways Field was a boy all his life. lieloved a 2^1iictieal joke, and was never too busy topipy one on his friends, who sometimes became alittle out of ])atience Mith him. However, they didnot kee]) their anger long, for he had the knack ofmaking people good-natured, and besides, he neverplayed a joke that could hurt any ones feelings.
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