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A Young Hero, by G Manville Fenn
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Title: A Young Hero
Author: G Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Archibald Webb
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21380]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England
A Young Hero, by G Manville Fenn.
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This is a prettily produced little book. It's not very long and doesn't have anything like the usual Manville Fenn subtle plot.
The plot itself consists of an opening scene in which Doctor Martin, a most learned gentleman, is teaching Phil, the hero, his Latin. Phil is perhaps eight or none years of age, not older then that, Dr Martin is French, while Phil is English.
It is a time in Canada in which war is about to break out between the English, who have colonised most of North America, and the French, who have occupied most of Canada. All of a sudden Phil's father, an officer with the English forces, appears, and requests that Dr Martin should abandon his house, and all his books and papers, and take the boy Phil to him in the English lines. I should say this is a pretty ridiculous idea, but the poor old Doctor did just as he was told, thereby suffering many days of privation, and