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Hollowdell Grange, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: March 26, 2008 [EBook #24918]
Language: English
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Hollowdell Grange, by George Manville Fenn.
_______________________________________________________________________This is one of Fenn's earliest books. The theme is that a boy from London goes down to stay in the country with his cousins, where the way of life is so very different, and challenging, from all that he had known in the great city. The descriptions of country life of those days are very well done, but we must make one warning--that many of the countrymen we meet in the story speak with a strong Lincolnshire accent, and the author has done his best to represent these sounds with what must very often look like mistakes in transcription.
There are all sorts of country situations to be encountered, from working with animals, to meeting the various village characters, to a near drowning, and even, at the very end to an attempted rescue, one that failed, of a drowning boy caught in a sluice on the beach.
There may well be a few mistakes, because