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George Manville Fenn

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .You must get some oakum, and dye it black. Plait it up, and fasten that on the men’s heads.”

“With bit o’ stling,” said Ching, nodding his head. “Go act play—make fleatre ’board ship?”

“Yes, we are going to act a play,” said the lieutenant sternly; and I felt the blood come into my face with excitement.

“Shave men’s head—shave face; makee look allee same Chinaman.”

“Oh, we can manage that,” said Mr Reardon, giving me a meaning look. “You can pick out men and boys enough, Mr Herrick, to make twenty smooth-faced ones.”

“Yes, sir, I think so,” I said.

“Then something must be mixed up, whiting and tallow ought to do it.”

“Yes, Ching see; makee head velly white.”

“That will do, then.”

“No,” said Ching sharply. “No tlouser, no boot?”

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Community Reviews

The author's bio says that he wrote juvenile fiction (among other things), and if this is one of those books, then I shudder to think how George Manville Fenn's children turned out. It's an adventure tale, with all the violence you could ask for; mob violence, beatings, stabbings, shootings, beheadi