E-text prepared by Al Haines The House. Drawn by E. H. Garrett. THE WORKS OF EUGENE FIELD Vol. VIII THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF EUGENE FIELD THE HOUSE AN EPISODE IN THE LIVES OF REUBEN BAKER, ASTRONOMER, AND OF HIS WIFE ALICE CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1911 Copyright, 1896, by JULIA SUTHERLAND FIELD. INTRODUCTION The story that is told in this volume is as surely an autobiography as if that announcement were a part of the title: and it also has the peculiar and significant distinction of being in some sort the biography of every man and woman who enters seriously upon the business of life. In its pages is to be found the history of the heart's desire of all who are disposed to take the partnership of man and woman seriously. The instinct—the desire—call it what you will—that is herein set forth with such gentle humor is as old as humanity, and all literature that contains germs of permanence teems with its influence. But never before has it had so
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