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Mass' George, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: W.T. Smith
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21320]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Mass' George, by George Manville Fenn.
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George Bruton, son of Captain Bruton is a young teenager. His father's plantation is in Georgia. The time is around the middle of the eighteenth century. Although not keen on the idea of slavery, Captain Bruton determines that he will buy one of them and will try to treat him extremely well. The man has a son, whom the family nickname Pompey, Pomp for short. Eventually these two become relaxed, realising that there will be no hard treatment for them, and the two boys, George and Pomp, become fast friends. They have various adventures, including attacks by alligators, floods, fire, Red Indians, Spaniards, snakes, ants, and several other nasties.
The book very largely consists of dialogue between the two boys, starting at the point when Pomp can barely speak English, which he soon masters after a fashion (which his father never does), and going