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Title: Echoes from the Sabine Farm
Author: Roswell Martin Field and Eugene Field
Release Date: October 27, 2004 [eBook #13885]
Language: English
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field
ECHOES FROM THE SABINE FARM
by
ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD AND EUGENE FIELD
1899
[Illustration]
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 been frequently reminded that the writer was ready and willing to stand sponsor for any new volume he, Field, might desire to bring out.
"The only thing I have on hand that might make a book," said Field, "are some few paraphrases of the Odes of Horace which my brother, 'Rose,' and I have b