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The Lost Middy, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Stanley L. Wood
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21318]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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The Lost Middy, being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap, by George Manville Fenn.
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This is yet another tension-packed teenagers' novel from the pen of G. Manville Fenn. The hero is a sixteen-year-old called Aleck, who is an orphan being brought up by his uncle, whose main interest in life is writing a book of history. They live by the sea, and Aleck's great pleasure is to take his little sailing boat along the coast, often in the company of a pensioned-off man-o'-war's man, called Tom Bodger. They get involved with a press-gang raid by one of HM sloops, which is accompanied by a revenue cutter. Some of the men of the neighbouring hamlets are taken by the press-gang, but a middy from the sloop is also taken by the local smugglers, and hidden in the very cave where they normally hide their spoils.
Unfortunately Aleck also stumbles on the track of the smugglers, and gets