BOY OF MY HEART
BOY OF MY HEART
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
MCMXVI
TO
"LITTLE YEOGH WOUGH"
A FOREWORD
The Publishers wish to state that this is a book of absolute fact—not awork of fiction. From cover to cover it is the truth, and the truthonly—a record exact and faithful, both in large things and in small, ofthe short years of a boy who willingly and even joyously gave up hislife and all its brilliant promise for the sake of his country.
Even the tragic coincidence of the news of his death reaching his homein the very hour in which he himself was expected there on leave, iswhat actually occurred.
CONTENTS
| PART I | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| Waiting | 15 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Extravagant Baby | 26 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The First Steps of the Little Feet | 35 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| The Boy's Treasures and other Things | 46 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Good Days and Good-Nights | 64 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Passing Shadows | 82 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| A Motto to Steer By | 100 |
| [Pg 10]PART II | |
| THE TWO GERMAN GIFTS | |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The First German Gift—A Rose | 111 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| The Way of a Brother | 124 |
| CHAPTER X | |