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The Holy Cross and Other Tales, by Eugene
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Title: The Holy Cross and Other Tales
Author: Eugene Field
Release Date: June 11, 2007 [eBook #21807]
Language: English
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The Works of Eugene Field
Vol. V
The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field
THE HOLY CROSS AND OTHER TALES
[Frontispiece: "Presently the whole company was moved by a gentle pity." Drawn by S. W. Van Schaik.]
Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1911
Copyright, 1893, by Eugene Field.
Copyright, 1896, by Julia Sutherland Field.
DEDICATED WITH LOVE
AND GRATITUDE TO
ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD
NOTE.
To this volume as it was originally issued have been added five Tales, beginning with "The Platonic Bassoon," which are characteristic of the various moods, serious, gay, or pathetic, out of which grew the bes