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Title: Picked up at Sea
The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

Author: J.C. Hutcheson

Release Date: January 13, 2008 [EBook #24267]

Language: English

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Picked up at Sea; or, The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek, by John Conroy
Hutcheson.

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This is good book, well written, and interesting throughout. It starts
off at sea, aboard the Susan Jane, when a piece of floating wreckage is
seen. A body is found on it, that of a boy of fifteen or so, badly
injured, and struck dumb, and apparently unaware of what is going on.
Yet when Seth, one of the men on board, is in danger, the boy springs to
his aid. When they get to America it is time for the vessel to have a
full refit, so some of the crew and the only passenger, Mr Rawlings,
together with the boy, now known as Sailor Bill, go off to work a mine
that Rawlings has bought.

Eventually, after all sorts of adventures and misadventures, the boy
recovers his senses, and recognises a man and a dog in the camp as old
family friends. The dog, of course, had previously mystified the camp
by apparently recognising the boy, but this had been put down to a doggy
sympathy with those not so well mentally endowed.

The mine is successful, and all go home as wealthy as they could wish.

Here we are working from the first edition, while some later editions
had only the above story. There are actually three further stories, all
with a nautical flavour, but totalling only half the length of the first
story. They are also interesting, and it is sad that they got left out
from those later editions. You will enjoy them, either to read or
in the spoken form.
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PICKED UP AT SEA; OR, THE MINERS OF MINTURNE CREEK, BY JOHN CONROY
HUTCHESON.

STORY ONE, CHAPTER ONE.

THE GOLD-MINERS OF MINTURNE CREEK.

THE "SUSAN JANE."

"Sail-ho on the weather-bow!"

"What do