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Title: Menhardoc

Author: George Manville Fenn

Illustrator: C.J. Staniland

Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21354]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Menhardoc, a Story of Cornish Nets and Mines, by George Manville Fenn.

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In passing, the title of the book, Menhardoc, never once appears in the
body-text of the book. But it has a sort of mysterious Cornish sound to
it, and that does the trick.

Mr Temple and his two 15 or 16 year old twin sons have come to stay for
the summer holidays in a Cornish fishing village. The two boys are very
different. Arthur, or Taff, is very foppish and afraid of getting wet,
hurt, or in any way inconvenienced. The other boy, Richard, or Dick, is
the exact opposite, always running hither and thither, always wanting to
get involved in anything that is going, ready to make friends with all
and sundry, while Arthur believes himself to be very grand and much
above the fisher men and boys that they meet on this holiday.

Will Marion is one such boy. But he is a very clever studious boy, as
well as one who gets on with the day-to-day fishing business. He has
had a good grammar-school education, and Arthur is quite put out to
discover that Will is better than he at his Latin and Greek, in those
days forming a large part of a good education.

Josh, Uncle Abram, and several others complete the principal cast. The
boys get out on various boating expeditions, in which they, and we,
learn a great deal about the life of a fishing village of perhaps 1850.
We learn about the various fishes, and how they are caught, and they
have various narrow shaves down mines, in caves, and after various
unfortunate accidents.

This book is beautifully written, very informative and interesting, and
as full of thrills as any book by G Manville Fenn, the master of
suspense.

Of course there is a surprise waiting for us at the finish.

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