Little Boy (film) James, his loving father, which begins from the very moment he is born when his father cradles him in his arms and notices how small he is. When Pepper asks a doctor if he has dwarfism, the doctor tells him, "For now, Pepper, let's just say you're a 'little boy'," this expression would become Pepper's nickname. He would learn to despise those two words and always make a problem when someone would call out his nickname. However, when World War II begins, Pepper's older brother is declared ineligible for military service because of flat feet and his father joins in
Little Boy Blue (poem) Little Boy Blue") to its present form. The poem was republished by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1889 in Field's "The Little Book of Western Verse". In 1976, Frank Jacobs wrote a parody of the poem for "Mad" magazine. An 1891 song setting of Field's poem by composer Ethelbert Nevin (1862–1901) was made popular by tenor John McCormack. A spoken-word recording (with accompaniment) was also made by Wink Martindale and it appears on his "Deck of Cards" album. <poem> The little toy dog is covered with dust, Time was when the little toy dog was new, And that was the time