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

    By George Manville Fenn

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
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    George Manville Fenn

    George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) was an English author, journalist, and educator. Although he is best known for his boy’s adventure stories, Fenn authored over 175 books in his lifetime, including his very popular historical naval fiction for adult readers. Fenn wrote a number of weekly newspaper columns, and subsequently became the publisher of various magazines, many which became a platform for his social and economic views of Victorian England.

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      Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others - George Manville Fenn

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Brave and True, by George Manville Fenn

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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

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRAVE AND TRUE ***

      Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

      George Manville Fenn

      Brave and True

      Chapter One.

      Brave and True, by E Dawson.

      But I say, Martin, tell us about it! My pater wrote to me that you’d done no end of heroic things, and saved Bullace senior from being killed. His pater told him, so I know it’s all right. But wasn’t it a joke you two should be on the same ship?

      Martin looked up at his old schoolfellow. He had suddenly become a person of importance in the well-known old haunts where he had learned and played only as one of the schoolboys.

      It wasn’t much of a joke sometimes, said he. "I thought at first that I was glad to see a face I knew. But there were lots of times after that when I didn’t think it."

      Wasn’t old Bullfrog amiable, then?

      He was never particularly partial to me, you know, answered Martin. The first term I was at school—before you came—I remember I caught him out at a cricket match. He was always so sure of making top score! He called me an impudent youngster in those days.

      He never was too good to you, I remember. I was one of the chaps he let alone.

      Well, he went on calling me an impudent youngster, continued Martin, "and all that sort of thing—and he tried to set the other fellows against me. Oh, it isn’t all jam in the Royal Navy! You haven’t left school when you go there, and the gunroom isn’t always just exactly paradise, you know! And if your seniors try to make it hot for you, why—they can!"

      So you and Bullfrog didn’t exactly hit it off?

      Oh, well, he was sub-lieutenant this last voyage, and you can’t stand up to your senior officer as you can to your schoolfellows, don’t you see?

      There was a minute’s silence, broken by an eager request. But tell us about the battle. What did it feel like to be there? How was it old Bullfrog let you go at all?

      "He hadn’t the ordering of that, thank goodness, said Martin fervently. And I was jolly glad he hadn’t! We had some excitement getting those big guns along, I can tell you! The roads weren’t just laid out for that game."

      Well, go on, said another eager voice. Then one day we came upon the enemy, and there was a stand-up fight, you know. How did it feel? Well, there wasn’t much thinking about it. You just knew that you were ready to blaze at them, and they were popping at you from their entrenchments; and that you jolly well meant to give them the worst of it.

      Well, about Bullfrog?

      Oh, that was nothing, said Martin, reddening. He must have got excited or something, for he took a step forward, putting himself in full view, and just then I saw what he didn’t see—that there were some of those Boer beggars just under our kopje, and that one of them had raised his rifle to pick off Bullfrog. So I made a flying leap on to his back and knocked him flat, and the bullet that was meant for him just crossed the back of my coat and ripped it up. Didn’t even scratch me!

      The little knot of listeners around Martin waited with bated breath for more.

      But he didn’t escape scot-free after all, continued Martin. Ten minutes after that he got shot in the leg. The bone was fractured, and he couldn’t move. I saw him fall and I pulled him to a little hollow under a stone where he’d be safe. And it was just as well, for the cavalry came up over there when the chase began. We gave them the licking they deserved that day. But you know all about that.

      Wish I’d been you! said Martin’s old schoolfellow very enviously. But what about Bullfrog after that?

      He was taken in the ambulance-cart and put in hospital. I saw him there and he was getting on all right.

      And what did he say?

      He said I’d caught him out again and a lot more. But it was all nonsense, you know.

      I expect he was sorry he’d ever made it hot for you, said one of the listeners.

      "You ought to have a VC or something for it, I consider," said another.

      Rot! answered Martin. "If a schoolfellow and a shipmate of yours

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