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The Weathercock, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: A.W. Cooper
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21375]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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The Weathercock, Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias, by George Manville Fenn.
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There is actually another title to this book, "The Boy Inventer", and that is just the character of our sixteen-year-old hero. He is living with his uncle, who is a doctor in a small Lincolnshire village. He is friendly, after a fashion, with three boys who are living in the Rector's house, where they are being educated.
Our hero, Vane Lee, is also a bit of a naturalist, as is the author of this book. But some of his inventions have a way of going wrong, as for example when he decides to make the defective church clock work. He takes it all to pieces, cleans all the parts up, and puts it all together again--with the exception of two vital wheels. In the middle of the night the clock's bell begins to strike without cease--the signal in the village for a fire. Everybody turns out a