: Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by Fenn George Manville - Oceania Juvenile fiction

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Fire Island, by George Manville Fenn.

This is good vintage Fenn, with dreadful situation following dreadful situation, and the heroes managing to get out of it somehow. Right up to the last chapter the reader never knows how the problems that throw themselves upon a little group of naturalists and the sailors that brought them to the island on which all these frightening events occur, will be solved. NH

FIRE ISLAND, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.

WILD TIMES.

"Do I think it would be wise to put on a life-belt, Mr Lane?"

"Yes."

Just then a dimly seen figure sidled up to the two speakers, held on tightly, and shouted--

"I say, Mr Rimmer, isn't that man steering very wildly?"

"Who's to steer tamely, sir, in a sea like this? Man has enough to do to keep from being washed overboard."

The newcomer nodded and took a fresh grip of the top of the bulwark as a sea came over the bows again, and swept along the deck, leaving them breathless and panting, with the water streaming from oilskin and mackintosh.

"Don't you want to put on a life-belt, too?" shouted the first speaker, as in the darkness of that terrible night his words seemed to be snatched away as soon as uttered.

"Yes; it would be safer; where are they?"

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