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Menhardoc, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Menhardoc
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: C.J. Staniland
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21354]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Menhardoc
a Story of Cornish Nets and Mines
by George Manville Fenn.
In passing, the title of the book, Menhardoc, never once appears in the body-text of the book. But it has a sort of mysterious Cornish sound to it, and that does the trick.
Mr Temple and his two 15 or 16 year old twin sons have come to stay for the summer holidays in a Cornish fishing village. The two boys are very different. Arthur, or Taff, is very foppish and afraid of getting wet, hurt, or in any way inconvenienced. The other boy, Richard, or Dick, is the exact opposite, always running hither and thither, always wanting to get involved in anything that is going, ready to make friends with all and sundry, while Arthur believes himself to be very grand and much above the fisher men and boys that they meet on this holiday.
Will Marion is one such boy. But he is a very clever studious boy, as well as one who gets on with the day-to-day fishing business. He has had a good grammar-school education, and Arthur is quite put out to disco