PREFACE.
- TO ALL MY BOY AND GIRL FRIENDS,
- Greeting!
IT is quite impossible for me to make this preface as impersonal as that of the earlier edition. Some of you I know; many of you I may never meet; and yet I can scarcely feel that this foreword is addressed merely to strangers. Rather let it carry a word of personal greeting to each one of you who may chance to read it.
The five years since the book was written have brought me into still closer contact with my boy friends, and the circle of them is constantly widening. However, when I read over this story preparatory to the new edition, I lose thought of everything else but the desire to go back to the childhood of the Half Dozen Boys.
They are all real boys, and to-day our friend-
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