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Quicksilver, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Frank Dadd
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21363]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Quicksilver
or, The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel
CHAPTER ONE.
A VERY STRANGE PAIR.
He was very grubby, and all about his dark grey eyes there were the marks made by his dirty fingers where he had rubbed away the tickling tears. The brownish red dust of the Devon lanes had darkened his delicate white skin, and matted his shiny yellow curls.
As to his hands, with their fat little fingers, with every joint showing a pretty dimple, they looked white and clean, but that was due to the fact that he was sitting in a bed of moss by the roadside, where the water came trickling down from the red rocks above, and dabbling and splashing the tiny pool, till the pearly drops hung among his dusty curls, and dotted, as if with jewels, the ragged old blue jersey shirt which seemed to form his only garment.
This did not fit him, in spite of its elasticity, for it was what a d