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Title: Sappers and Miners
The Flood beneath the Sea

Author: George Manville Fenn

Illustrator: Hal Hurst

Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21367]

Language: English

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Sappers and Miners, by George Manville Fenn.

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This must be one of Manville Fenn's very best books. The suspense is
totally gripping, right to the very end. Normally Fenn places his
moments of terror at the very end of a chapter, so that this book with
52 chapters must have quite a few of them.

When preparing this book for publication on the web, the editor was
truly sorry when the work ended, so greatly had he enjoyed every moment
of it.

The action takes place in Cornwall, in and around an old tin-mine,
possibly dating back to Roman and Phoenician days, for these people
obtained much of the tin they needed to make bronze, from Cornwall, and
many of the mines are still there, with many miles of workings, often
going out far beneath the sea.

You should enjoy reading or listening to this book very much--as much, I
hope, as the editor of it has done.

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SAPPERS AND MINERS, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.

CHAPTER ONE.

BASS FOR BREAKFAST.

"Have some more bass, Gwyn?"

"Please, father."

"You should not speak with your mouth full, my dear," said Mrs
Pendarve, quietly.

"No, mother; but I didn't like to keep father waiting."

"And between the two stools you came to the ground, eh?" said Colonel
Pendarve, smiling. "Never mind; hold your plate. Lucky for us, my
dear, that we have only one boy. This fellow eats enough for three."

"Well, but, father, we were down by the boat at daybreak, and the sea
air makes one so hungry."

"Say ravenous or wolfish, my boy. But go on. It certainly is a
delicious fish, and Dolly has cooked it to a turn. They were rising
fairly, then?"

"Yes, father; we rowed righ