Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: -:... r r:,,v ;. r. e J- :.- '-'.. ,-,'. .y.v! t'V.- - i . - '! -. '.::!. I 1.1;: '/. M ' i' ' .'. .J s : to.- ! I .": ' . s-'iorij;, of his = -, ' Jf'nt hr: t-.'.oiif ,- .r r- . .,.;-, L'C ---l EUGENE FIELD, JR. (" PINNY"). Page 67. The dedication in With Trumpet and Drum refers to this son so delicately that to me it is among his sweetest thoughts. In " Buttercup, Poppy, Forget- me-not," he twines a wreath about the life and the " falling asleep " of this child, so delicate and poetical, that grim death is entirely lost in its beauty. " The Peace of Christmas Time " also refers to this sorrow. His marked devotion to his son " Pinny" was very noticeable; many attributed this to his likeness to his mother; but this partiality never showed itself after the death of his eldest son, which seemed to show that each child,no matter what its characteristic might be, was equally dear to him. Melvin was quiet, practical, and rather inclined to be serious, while " Pinny " was the very personification of fun and mischief, and possessed of a most daring spirit, accompanied by a very winsome personality,—all of which appealed to his father's fun-loving nature. His children afforded him great pleasure, although he often made them targets for his great propensity for teasing. " Trotty " was of a rather serious turn of mind, and was often called " the child-mother," on account of her care and solicitude for the younger children. Some one asked f.: : '.' .-' J : "ID IN If;;- i ... .' -..'. it 1 13 i.!' 'i':-. ' . ' " :/' 'I tO li" 'K'T''i.- s'. ,] .-..; l:u.' -fry pe: '.. :liiii df f ,.! i'. ii.iscliicf, a'-. .i'v. f a ': . : daring '-, ; .. i. ' .i.'.. ti.a i-:vin-'f r .; : it ..' '.ij-'ila liiiii ." j;1.:.T5u',", aii-.-!i:.':i he ofii:n ? '!: .1- t...