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Dick o' the Fens, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21306]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Dick o' the Fens; A Tale of the Great Eastern Swamp, by George Manville Fenn.
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A number of the actors in this tale speak in a broad Lincolnshire Fenland dialect, which may make it a little hard for some readers. Some of the more unusual words are annotated in square brackets.
The Squire sees the gradually encroaching bog and marsh in his land, and realises that with drainage he could reclaim this as good farm land. On the other hand some of the locals would rather see the fen remain, along with their various occupations, and the wonderful and fragile wet-land natural history. When digging begins there are a number of nasty incidents--torching of houses, malicious woundings of horses and cows, gunshot wounds to humans, and even murders.
A constable is called in, and takes a dislike to Dick, the Squire's son, and to his friend Tom. He tries to pin the blame on the