Boy of My Heart
BOY OF MY HEART
HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXVI
LITTLE YEOGH WOUGH
The Publishers wish to state that this is a book of absolute fact—not a work of fiction. From cover to cover it is the truth, and the truth only—a record exact and faithful, both in large things and in small, of the short years of a boy who willingly and even joyously gave up his life and all its brilliant promise for the sake of his country.
Even the tragic coincidence of the news of his death reaching his home in the very hour in which he himself was expected there on leave, is what actually occurred.
Marie Connor Leighton
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BOY OF MY HEART
A FOREWORD
CONTENTS
PATRIOTISM
PART I
CHAPTER I WAITING
CHAPTER II THE EXTRAVAGANT BABY
CHAPTER III THE FIRST STEPS OF THE LITTLE FEET
CHAPTER IV THE BOY'S TREASURES AND OTHER THINGS
CHAPTER V GOOD DAYS AND GOOD NIGHTS
CHAPTER VI PASSING SHADOWS
CHAPTER VII A MOTTO TO STEER BY
PART II THE TWO GERMAN GIFTS
CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST GERMAN GIFT—A ROSE
CHAPTER IX THE WAY OF A BROTHER
CHAPTER X THE FEEDING OF LOVE
CHAPTER XI THE ANGER OF LOVE
CHAPTER XII IN THE DANGER ZONE
CHAPTER XIII THE SECOND GERMAN GIFT