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The Boy Tar
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An extraordinary story of a young hero, Philip Forster, who is no more than four feet high. He has friends among the other boys of the village, but none of them seem to get up to his sort of escapades. One of these involves stowing away in the hold of a vessel bound for Peru, a six months voyage. Fighting rats, the darkness of the ships hold and hunger he painstaking makes his way through layer after layer of cargo; through brandy casks, pianos, boxes of ladies' bonnets; toward the cargo hatch.
This a very gripping tale and very hard to put down.
REID, Thomas Mayne was an Irish writer of boys' stories, born in Ballyroney, County Down. In 1840 he emigrated to New Orleans, settled as a journalist in Philadelphia (1843), and served in the US army during the Mexican war (1847), where he was severely wounded. Returning to Britain in 1849, he settled down to a literary life in London. His vigorous style and hairbreadth escapes delighted his readers. Among his books, many of which were popular in translation in Poland and Russia, were The Rifle Rangers (1850), Scalp Hunters (1851), Boy Hunters (1853), War Trail (1851), Boy Tar (1859), and Headless Horseman (1866). He went back to New York in 1867 and founded the Onward Magazine, but returned to England in 1870.
An extraordinary story of a young hero, Philip Forster, who is no more than four feet high. He has friends among the other boys of the village, but none of them seem to get up to his sort of escapades. One of these involves stowing away in the hold of a vessel bound for Peru, a six months voyage. Fighting rats, the darkness of the ships hold and hunger he painstaking makes his way through layer after layer of cargo; through brandy casks, pianos, boxes of ladies' bonnets; toward the cargo hatch.
This a very gripping tale and very hard to put down.
REID, Thomas Mayne was an Irish writer of boys' stories, born in Ballyroney, County Down. In 1840 he emigrated to New Orleans, settled as a journalist in Philadelphia (1843), and served in the US army during the Mexican war (1847), where he was severely wounded. Returning to Britain in 1849, he settled down to a literary life in London. His vigorous style and hairbreadth escapes delighted his readers. Among his books, many of which were popular in translation in Poland and Russia, were The Rifle Rangers (1850), Scalp Hunters (1851), Boy Hunters (1853), War Trail (1851), Boy Tar (1859), and Headless Horseman (1866). He went back to New York in 1867 and founded the Onward Magazine, but returned to England in 1870.
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