The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field

ECHOES FROM THE SABINE FARM

by

ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD AND EUGENE FIELD

1899







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INTRODUCTION

One Sunday evening in the winter of 1890 Eugene Field and the writer
were walking in Lake View, Chicago, on their way to visit the library of
a common friend, when the subject of publishing a book for Field came up
for discussion.

The Little Book of Western Verse and The Little Book of Profitable Tales
had been privately printed the year before at Chicago, and Field had