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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tommy, by Joseph HockingThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: TommyAuthor: Joseph HockingRelease Date: April 4, 2008 [EBook #24986]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOMMY ***Produced by Al HainesTOMMYBYJOSEPH HOCKINGAUTHOR OF"ALL FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER" "DEARER THAN LIFE" ETC.HODDER AND STOUGHTONLONDON —— NEW YORK —— TORONTOMCMXVITWO GREAT WAR STORIES BY JOSEPH HOCKINGALL FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER DEARER THAN LIFEOTHER STORIES BY JOSEPH HOCKING Facing Fearful Odds O'er Moor and Fen The Wilderness Rosaleen O'Hara The Soul of Dominie Wildthorne Follow the Gleam David Baring The Trampled CrossNOTEMy only qualification for writing this simple story of "Tommy" is that I have tried to know him, and that I greatly admire him.I met him before he joined the army, when for more than six months I addressed recruiting meetings. I have also beenwith him in training camps, and spent many hours talking with him. It was during those hours that he opened his heart tome and showed me the kind of man he is. Since then I have visited him in France and Flanders. I have been with himdown near La Bassée, and Neuve Chapelle. I have talked with him while great guns were booming as well as during ...
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOMMY ***
Produced by Al Haines
Title: Tommy Author: Joseph Hocking Release Date: April 4, 2008 [EBook #24986] Language: English
BY
TOMMY
AUTHOR OF "ALL FOR A SCRAP OFPAPER" "DEARER THAN LIFE" ETC.
JOSEPH HOCKING
HODDER AND STOUGHT
LONDON —— NEW YORK —— TORONTO
MCMXVI
ON
TWO GREAT WAR STORIES BY JOSEPH HOCKING
ALL FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER DEARER THAN LIFE
OTHER STORIES BY JOSEPH HOCKING
Facing Fearful Odds O'er Moor and Fen The Wilderness Rosaleen O'Hara The Soul of Dominie Wildthorne Follow the Gleam David Baring The Trampled Cross
NOTE
My only qualification for writing this simple story of "Tommy" is that I have tried to know him, and that I greatly admire him. I met him before he joined the army, when for more than six months I addressed recruiting meetings. I have also been with him in training camps, and spent many hours talking with him. It was during those hours that he opened his heart to me and showed me the kind of man he is. Since then I have visited him in France and Flanders. I have been with him down near La Bassée, and Neuve Chapelle. I have talked with him while great guns were booming as well as during his hours of well-earned rest, when he was in a garrulous mood, and was glad to crack a joke "wi' a man wearin' a black coat." I have also been with him up at Ypres, when the shells were shrieking over our heads, and the "pep, pep, pep" of machine guns heralded the messengers of death. We stood side by side in the front trenches, less than a hundred yards from the German sand-bags, when to lift one's head meant a Hun's bullet through one's brain, and when "woolly bears" were common. So although I am not a soldier, and have probably fallen into technical errors in telling the story of "Tommy," it is not because he is a stranger to me, or because I have not tried to know him.
Only a small part of this story is imagination. Nearly every incident in the book was told me by "Tommy" himself, and while the setting of my simple tale is fiction, the tale itself is fact.
That is why I hope the story of "Tommy" will not only be read by thousands of men in khaki, but by their fathers and mothers and loved ones who bade them go to the Front, and who earnestly pray for their speedy and victorious return, even as I do.
JOSEPH HOCKING.
PRIORS' CORNER, TOTTERIDGE, HERTS,February
1916.
