Excerpt from A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay It is the purpose of th1s volume to present to the admirers of Eugene Field a Collection of poems from a store wherein many of his richest gems of wit, humor and pathos have been buried for twenty years and forgotten, save by a few of those who were his intimate associates during his career in Denver. These poems appeared at intervals from Au gust, 1881, to August, 1883, in the columns of The Denver Tribune, of which paper Field was then associate editor. Their circulation in that journal was restricted and provincial and, being published anonymously, the knowledge of their authorship was confined to the few readers who were familiar with the quaint style and inimitable humor of the author. A number of these verses were copied into other journals, and so attained a wider circula tion. But, whether honored by his contemporariesor not, their creation was but ephemeral, for they have never before been collected and printed in ac cessible and enduring form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.