E-text prepared by Al Haines

 

 

 Eugene Field.Etched by W. H. W. Bicknell. 

 

 THE WORKS OF EUGENE FIELD Vol. X THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF EUGENE FIELD 

 

 SECOND BOOK OF TALES 

 

 CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1911 

 

 Copyright, 1896, by JULIA SUTHERLAND FIELD. 

 

 NOTE 

 The tales down to and including "The Werewolf" in this volume have been selected from those which remained unpublished in book form at the time of Mr. Field's death. It was also thought desirable to take from "Culture's Garland," and to incorporate in this volume, such sketches as seemed most likely to prove of permanent value and of interest as illustrating Mr. Field's earlier manner; and these, eight in number, form the latter part of the book. 

 

 INTRODUCTION 

 Of all American poets Field, it seems to me, best understood the heart of a child. Other sweet singers have given us the homely life of the Western cabin, the unexpected tenderness of the mountaineer, the loyalty and quaint devotion of the negro servant, but to Field alone, and in preëminent degree, was given that keen insight into child nature, that compassion for its faults, that sympathy with its sorrows and that delight in its joyous innocence which will endear him to his race as long as our language is read. 

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