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Title: Mother Carey's Chicken
Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle

Author: George Manville Fenn

Illustrator: A. Forestier

Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21296]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Mother Carey's Chicken, by George Manville Fenn.

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Yet once more George Manville Fenn's talent for writing books so packed
with tensions, so full of dreadful situations, is presented to us.

Mark is the son of a sea-captain, who has always longed to follow his
father to sea. The old captain tells him that life at sea is pretty
boring, but eventually agrees to take both Mark and his mother on his
next voyage. Of course this turns out to be full of perils and
adventures.

Set in the Java Seas, we meet with pirates, sharks, serpents,
volcanoes, unfriendly natives, adverse weather, geysers, fire at sea,
and many other dire situations.

A very good read. NN

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MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.

CHAPTER ONE.

HOW MARK STRONG WANTED TO GO.

"Go with me, Mark? What for? To live hard, work hard, and run the risk
every day of having to die hard. Get out! You're as bad as your
mother."

"Not very bad, is it, James, to wish to share my husband's life and
cares?"

Captain Strong put down his pipe, got up from his easy-chair, crossed to
the other side of the fire, and laid his hand upon Mrs Strong's
shoulder, while she turned her pleasant sweet womanly face upward and
smiled in that of the fine, manly, handsome merchant captain, tanned and
reddened by many a fight with the sea.

"No, my dear," he said softly; "but it's a man's duty to face danger, a
woman's to keep the nest snug for him and the bairns. Why, Mary, you
don't know what the perils of the sea are."

Mrs Strong shook her head slowly, and that shake, as interpreted by her
eyes, meant a great deal.

"Ah! you may look," th