CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE AWAKENING OF HICKEY
THE GREAT PANCAKE RECORD
THE RUN THAT TURNED THE GAME
THE FUTURE PRESIDENT
FURTHER PERSECUTION OF HICKEY
MAKING FRIENDS
THE HERO OF AN HOUR
THE PROTEST AGAINST SINKERS
BEAUTY'S SISTER His hair it is a faded white, His eye a watery
THE GREAT BIG MAN
THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF MR. BALDWIN
THE MARTYRDOM OF WILLIAM HICKS
THE ETERNAL BOY
Frontispiece "'Nothing but a "suveneer," gents, nothing guaranteed'" (Page 123)
THE ETERNAL BOY
BEING THE STORY
OF
THE PRODIGIOUS HICKEY
decoration
BY
OWEN JOHNSON
AUTHOR OF "MAX FARGUS," ETC.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1909
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
THE CENTURY CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1907, 1908, 1909, BY
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHED, JANUARY, 1909