Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . en I licked a feller at had just moved on our father sent me up to bed without a bite to eat,I woke up in the dark an saw things standin in a row,A-lookin at me cross-eyed an pintin at me—so! Sefjn Thix(;s 241 Oh, my! I wiiz so skcered that time J never slep a mite—Its ahiiost alluz when Im bad 1 see things at ni<^ht! Lueky thin<»- 1 aint a <4irl, or Id he skeered to death!Bein Im a. hoy, I (hick my head an hold my breath;An I am, oh! so sorry Im a naughty bo
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . en I licked a feller at had just moved on our father sent me up to bed without a bite to eat,I woke up in the dark an saw things standin in a row,A-lookin at me cross-eyed an pintin at me—so! Sefjn Thix(;s 241 Oh, my! I wiiz so skcered that time J never slep a mite—Its ahiiost alluz when Im bad 1 see things at ni<^ht! Lueky thin<»- 1 aint a <4irl, or Id he skeered to death!Bein Im a. hoy, I (hick my head an hold my breath;An I am, oh! so sorry Im a naughty boy, an thenI promise to be ])etter an I say my prayers again!Granma tells me thats the only way to make it rightWhen a feller has been wicked an sees things at night! An so, A\ hen other naughty boys would coax me into sin,I try to skwush the Tempters voice at urges m( within;An when theys pie for supj^er, or cakes ats big an nice,I want to—but I do not pass my plate fr them things twice!Xo, ruther let Starvation wipe me slowly out o sightThan I should keep a-livin on an seein things at night! EUGENE FIELD. f?*^/ ->/-^^O^V rare is the man who seems to knowjust how children feel and just whatchildren like! If such a man can writedown some of these things which heand the children understand, but whichmany grown-up people do not, it isvery certain that children all over theworld will love him. 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 write
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