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Cutlass and Cudgel, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Cutlass and Cudgel
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: J Schonberg
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21297]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Cutlass and Cudgel, by George Manville Fenn.
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In some ways this book is reminiscent of "The Lost Middy", by the same author, but I suppose that with a similar theme, a nosey midshipman taken prisoner by a gang of smugglers, there are bound to be other points of similarity. Anyway, it is a good fast-moving story, with lots of well-drawn human interest.
It starts off with a comic scene, where the Excise patrol vessel is cruising near an area suspected of being heavily involved with smuggling. Suddenly a large object is seen swimming in the water, and it turns out to be a cow. Then there's all the business of milking the cow on the deck of a sailing-vessel. Pretty soon, however it gets serious, and we meet various characters living nearby. Soon the inquisitive midshipman is taken prisoner, and it falls to another teenager, the son of one of the chief rogues, to bring him food. Both boys become