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Title: Brave and True
Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others

Author: George Manville Fenn

Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21292]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Brave and True,
Short stories for children by G M Fenn and others.
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Although Fenn's name appears on the cover, and on the title-page, he
does not appear to have written more than one of the stories, and the
story that gave its name to the book was not by him. There are several
stories that were not signed by an author's name, so we have a mystery
there. They were probably just using Fenn's name to sell the book.

The target audience appears to be seven- or eight-year-olds; certainly
not the sixteen-year-olds that Fenn generally aimed for. There are
twelve items, three of which are rather trivial "poems". The nine short
stories all have the theme "Brave and True", and vary in their settings
from small boarding-schools in the Home Counties, to the Rocky
Mountains.

We had originally intended to produce this book merely as a pdf (which
is of course still available), but with an effort of will we managed to
make an xhtml book of it, though this does not have all the delightful
little line drawings that appeared throughout the eighty pages of the
book.

It is possible that the principal merit of this book is the way it
throws light on the lives of the younger boarding-school boys and girls
of the nineteenth century, particularly eight to thirteen year-old
boys. I can tell you that not a lot had changed by the time I was
at such a school, less than fifty years later. Even the Eton collar
and the bum-freezer jacket was familiar to me!
NH
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BRAVE AND TRUE--SHORT STORIES FOR CHILDREN BY G M FENN AND OTHERS

CHAPTER ONE.

BRAVE AND TRUE, BY E DAWSON.

"But I say, Martin, tell us about it! My pater wrote to me that you'