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Title: A Little Hero

Author: Mrs. H. Musgrave

Illustrator: H. M. Brock

Release Date: March 4, 2010 [EBook #31498]

Language: English

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A Little Hero

BY

MRS. MUSGRAVE

Author of "In Cloudland" "The Lost Thimble" &c.

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED

LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

1887

_Printed and bound in Great Britain_

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A LITTLE HERO

CHAPTER I

He was eight years old, and his name was Geoffry. But everyone called
him Jeff. The gentle lady who was his mother had no other children,
and she loved him more than words can say; not because he was a good or
pretty child--for he was neither--but because he was her one little
child.

Jeff had big wide-awake, brown eyes, that seemed as if they never could
look sleepy. His hair was yellow, but cut so short that it could not
curl at all.

This was very sensible, for he lived in the hottest part of India. But
his mother certainly thought more about keeping him cool and
comfortable than about his good looks. His hair would have made soft
and pretty curls all over his head if allowed to grow longer. Jeff had
no black