| Show A SLUMBER STORY 4 The Start an Unpublished Work of f Eugene EUiene Field New York Torts Journal The Stars Stare a Slumber Story by Ity the th e late Eugene Field Is about aIN ut to be he out in book form by the New Amsterdam Book company The publishers announce U that this thin fragment from the pen 11 of the versatile poet philosopher and critic has not heretofore been published pubU hed It is 18 a It childrens story based en on the old son song which says the tile stars are only good little ehll ren eyes Dady a JL lad is 18 rocked in inthe inthe I Ithe the arms of his moUser mother who sings him hint to sleep and a good angel takes his Id eyes to heaven heaves when wilen he looks down OB on alt all 11 the th world and hears the talk of the stars and the songs of the night Field Fjeld has lias scattered sonic some Jl me of his most moot delightful child verse ven through this slum slumber slumber ber her story and around rOUnd hut his b infant hero he has hag woven a tale of which is 1 full of the charm ehan that made Field so be De beloved beloved loved of children Two TrO of the best beat poems from The Stars Stare are here heft quoted from advance sheets through the courtesy of the pu pul Ushers ll I The Thu a eH Ming Xing There was wa a prince by bg the name of Who lived U la in th the Chinese ChineN town of or LUHS And AM fell fel in iii I lev ieee with the Ute Princess s Miss Ming Who lived in the neighboring nel town of Jung J a terrible thing For Tsing Taing and Ming MIas Af Ar A allow when youve heard me rue mesing mesing sing Now it happened so that the town of Lung Where lived JIved the prine who longed to woo Went out to war with the town of Jung Jang With junks and anti swords sword and too too a terrible thing For Taing and Miss As allow when youve heard roe rae sing Miss Ings papa pa girt on his sword For Tor this quota nn th h lie he Ill save have his gore oo ooIn In vain the Princess Ming lag implored In vain she swooned on the palace floor The Princess Miss Ming Who was wooed of Tsing TaIng Could not prevail with the gruff old eld King mag The old King opened the palace gate And In marched Taing T fj with his soldiers grim grimAnd grimAnd And the King iCIng smote Tsing on his princely pate Stating this thi stem stera ster rebuke to him hint It a fatal thing For you Mr XI To come the Princess Ming The prince most keenly felt this slight But still more keenly k the cut oa OR his bead head So suddenly turning cold d and white He fell lell to the Ute earth and a lay there Which act ot of the King To Te the tile handsome Tsing Taing Was a brutal shock hoek to the Princess s Ming ding No sooner BOOner did the young prince die Than P cea Ming Xing from the palace pJ ce flew And Jumped jum I Wt fel t the River Jl JI With WI th dreadful purpose of dying t ta J Ji i a TTa a natural at thing T Per Far the Princess Ming log To do d for love 16 of the handsome Taing And when site ebe h leaped ped In the River Ji 11 And gasped gamed lu ed and choked till her face was Willi blue lue lueA A crocodile flab fisa came ram paddling palIng by And greedily bit Mite Miss MI 8 Ming MinI In two two The horrid torrid old thing Mist Miss Ming 11 Who had hoped to die for fir the love of ofT T And as for f the crocodile ash flab that had bad Devoured Miss MIA MIng In fn this offhand way H n lie caught the th SK ln dreadful lirt adful bad That he too aGo died that t v vety r tj day So now with the King And ADd Tsing Taing and nd Ming And the crocodile dead what more can I Ising Ising sing slug The Dismal Dole of A Bingo bird once nestled her nest nestOn nestOn neston On the bough of an I 0 O yew JeW Hard by a burrow that was wu poap JO Of or a drear Stear and dismal this descried The Tile blithe and beautiful bingo bird bf He vowed hed woo her to his bride With many a sleek and winsome wd w Oh duo dvo oh doo sang the d To the bingo bird hird in the tile Yew Now a churlish chit was the bingo bIn bird bId Though her plumes were plumes J of Ut d hue And she I a 8 smirk whenever she heerd The yawp wp of the For she loved lond alas a Uc mists ax Which bad a sting at the e end lid af of lila his histan 11 tan And lived Jived in a tarn of ot sedge and brakes rakes On the murky brink of a swan swall Oh doe dew oh ob doo duo moaned the tile doodle duo doo As dimmer and darker each lay day he lie grew New when this beheld The rhe maix go wooing the bingo binge bird With envious cottons rancor his bosom swelled His soul with bitter r remorse was wan w stirred And a said to t the doodt The toting aqua aquaI I tall toll BO no tales but iLl were yo you Id stop his courting c the bingo fair fairye t li lie Ae ye e marry marl come up Id rs rain imbrue If f I were only a The very ne t morn as the bingo laird bird Was Vas nursing her baby three t She gave a start for lor she plainly heard An ominous sound at the foot of we Site fi e tree Her keen eye lit on the BI brakes From Prom whence proceeded the lop loo And A lo 10 and beheld the Busy BuS at work with the do Boohoo Booboo boonoo how the feathers dew W When the main Imbrued with the th dote doo dool They fought aad and scratched and this they th bit Jt and bled Dispensing gore and their VItIs vita too And nd never pausing till both bath we wese tI tIThe daad The and aDd the d And the bingo bird she mind But giving her shoulders a n careless shrug She went the way of her ber female kind Aad And straightway wedded e de the straddle burl bug buglAnd burlAnd And there was nobody left to tug tu The doom of the and the thit doodle doe doe Unless mayhap the I O d yew ew |
