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Title: Golden Lads

Author: Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

Release Date: August 28, 2006 [EBook #19131]

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[Illustration: _Photo. Excelsior._

THE PLAY-BOYS OF THE WESTERN FRONT.

The famous French Fusiliers Marins. These sailors from Brittany are
called "Les demoiselles au pompon rouge," because of their youth and the
gay red tassel on their cap.]

GOLDEN LADS

BY

ARTHUR GLEASON

AND

HELEN HAYES GLEASON

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

_"Golden Lads and Girls all must,
As chimney sweepers, come to dust."_

[Illustration]

TORONTO
McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART, LIMITED
1916

Copyright, 1916, by
THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1915, by the
CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Copyright, 1916, by the
BUTTERICK PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Copyright, 1915 and 1916, by the
TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION.

_Published, April, 1916_

(_Printed in the U. S. A._)

TO THE
SAILORS OF BRITTANY
THE BOY SOLDIERS OF THE FRENCH FUSILIERS MARINS
WHOSE WOUNDED IT WAS OUR PRIVILEGE TO CARRY IN FROM THE
FIELD OF HONOR AT MELLE, DIXMUDE,
AND NIEUPORT

Profits from the sale of this book will go to "The American Committee
for Training in Suitable Trades the Maimed Soldiers of France."

CONCERNING THIS BOOK

It would be futile to publish one more war-book, unless the writer had
been an eye-witness of unusual things. I am an American who saw
atrocities which are recorded in the Bryce Report. This book grows out
of months of day-by-day living in the war zone. I have been a member of
the Hector Munro Ambulance Corps, which was permitted to work at the
front because the Prime Minister of Belgium placed his son in military
command of us. That young man, being brave an