SOL SMITH RUSSELL 266

DR. FRANK W. REILLY 280

"FATHER PROUT" 288
_Francis Mahony._




EUGENE FIELD




CHAPTER I

PEDIGREE


"Sir John Maundeville, Kt.," was his prototype, and Father Prout was
his patron saint. The one introduced him to the study of British
balladry, the other led him to the classic groves of Horace.

"I am a Yankee by pedigree and education," wrote Eugene Field to Alice
Morse Earle, the author of "The Sabbath in Puritan New England," and
other books of the same flavor, "but I was born in that ineffably
uninteresting city, St. Louis."