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The House, by Eugene Field, Illustrated by E.
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Title: The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice
Author: Eugene Field
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Language: English
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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
[Frontispiece: The House. Drawn by E. H. Garrett.]
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