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Brownsmith's Boy, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21293]
Language: English
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Brownsmith's Boy, a Romance in a Garden, by George Manville Fenn.
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This is an absolutely delightful book, which has most of its early action in a market garden, and then more in another one. The author is a great naturalist, and he has much to teach us about the way in which work should be done to raise fruit and vegetables to be taken to London daily for the market. Somehow that sounds boring but there is so much action entwined with these facts that they are made far from boring.
The action takes place about 1835. The hero lives with his mother in a house overlooking the garden. When she dies he is taken in by Old Brownsmith to be taught the skills of a market gardener. Another boy, Shock, hangs about the garden, sleeping rough and living on a primitive diet of snails, hedgehogs and rabbits and whatever he can get. There is an uneasy relationship between the boys, with Shock constantly doing unkind and strang