The good knight Slosson from a watch tower
of his castle desenith and salutith the good
Knight Eugene, sans peur et sans monie.
Early in the spring of 1885 Field was inspired, by an account I gave him of a snow-shoeing party my sister had described in one of her letters, to compose the series of pen-and-ink tableaux reproduced on pages 30 and 31.
A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
From drawings by Eugene Field.
No. 1—The fair Mary Matilda skimming over the hills and dales of New Brunswick.
No. 2—Lovelorn Eddie Martin in hot pursuit of same.
No. 3—Lone pine in the deserted vale where the musquash watches for his prey.