SENTIMENTAL TOMMY

THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD

BY J. M. BARRIE

AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE MINISTER," "A WINDOW IN THRUMS," ETC.

1896




SENTIMENTAL TOMMY

THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD




CHAPTER I

TOMMY CONTRIVES TO KEEP ONE OUT


The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair, and
he was in sexless garments, which were all he had, and he was five, and
so though we are looking at him, we must do it sideways, lest he sit
down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the
clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he