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Our Soldier Boy, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Our Soldier Boy
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Victor Venner
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21371]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Our Soldier Boy, by George Manville Fenn.
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Well, this certainly is a departure from the usual Fenn style. Suspense as always there certainly is, but the intended audience is much younger than his usual teenager one.
The date is the Peninsular War, in Portugal.
A British family of merchants in Portugal are unaware of the intensity of the nearby fighting in the vicinity. They are at their country home, and go out for a few minutes, leaving their eight-year old son with the servants. The French attack, slay the servants, and leave the child with a severe injury to the head.
Later the 200th Fusiliers come by, and the corporal sees the villa, and goes up there to see if he can get anything useful for his men to eat. He sees the slain servants, and comes across the little boy, whom he carries back to his wife, to see if she can bring him round.
The boy does reco