: Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by Fenn George Manville Forestier A Am D E Illustrator - Sea stories; Voyages Imaginary Juvenile fiction

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Illustrator: A. Forestier

Mother Carey's Chicken, by George Manville Fenn.

Yet once more George Manville Fenn's talent for writing books so packed with tensions, so full of dreadful situations, is presented to us.

Mark is the son of a sea-captain, who has always longed to follow his father to sea. The old captain tells him that life at sea is pretty boring, but eventually agrees to take both Mark and his mother on his next voyage. Of course this turns out to be full of perils and adventures.

Set in the Java Seas, we meet with pirates, sharks, serpents, volcanoes, unfriendly natives, adverse weather, geysers, fire at sea, and many other dire situations.

A very good read. NN

MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.

HOW MARK STRONG WANTED TO GO.

"Go with me, Mark? What for? To live hard, work hard, and run the risk every day of having to die hard. Get out! You're as bad as your mother."

"Not very bad, is it, James, to wish to share my husband's life and cares?"

Captain Strong put down his pipe, got up from his easy-chair, crossed to the other side of the fire, and laid his hand upon Mrs Strong's shoulder, while she turned her pleasant sweet womanly face upward and smiled in that of the fine, manly, handsome merchant captain, tanned and reddened by many a fight with the sea.

"No, my dear," he said softly; "but it's a man's duty to face danger, a woman's to keep the nest snug for him and the bairns. Why, Mary, you don't know what the perils of the sea are."

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