Show A Gene Field ld Story New York Times Time The late Eugene Field was notoriously notoriously improvident his chronic hard being a sort of byword among his intimates said an old friend of the poet recently But he managed to get a good deal of fun tun himself out of the th paucity of his own resources Once at one of those semipublic functions held in a saloon where every everyman everyman man ma is a host who has the price and every man a guest who has a a thirst t Field Flold as usual went broke There hap happened to be a in the crowd one ne of those whose considerable ble ambi ambition ambition ambition tion is to say they have bave shaken shiken hands and touched glasses with a celebrity Calling the poet to one side he said Now I r hope take no offense but hut butI I understood you to say you had run short of ot money If that th t is true I would be glad to oblige you with a ten tea teaI I How dare you snapped Field af affecting affecting feeling great Indignation I r dont even know your name Beg your pardon a times responded the other I r meant no DO of or offense tense I assure you I r thought maybe you might e abIe to use the money oney Please forget it Field was silent for a moment In deep thought and then th slowly ly drawled drawl j 4 Forget it It AH AU right I will on one condition condl n On what condition i if teen f I On condition that you make It fit fir fifteen i |