Soldiers of the Queen

Soldiers of the Queen
or Jack Fenleigh's Luck - A Story of the Dash to Khartoum

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Soldiers of the Queen by Harold Avery

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1898

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Soldiers of the Queen
or Jack Fenleigh's Luck - A Story of the Dash to Khartoum

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Book Excerpt

ust pass together before the commencement of the summer vacation.

Most of the boys had arrived on the Monday evening, but Valentine Fenleigh did not come back until the following morning. According to a promise made to his aunt before leaving Brenlands, one of the first things he did was to inquire after his cousin.

"Yes," said one of his classmates, "there is a new chap by the name of Fenleigh, but I don't know what he's like. He's not put with us in the Lower Fourth."

Among a hundred and fifty boys, and in the confusion of a first day, it was a difficult matter to discover at once the whereabouts of the fellow he wanted. He accosted one or two of the new-comers, but by the time the bell rang for afternoon school he had only succeeded in ascertaining the fact that his cousin must be somewhere about, from having seen the name "J. Fenleigh" ticked off on the bedroom list. Holms was full of a project for hiring a bicycle during the summer months, and, what with listening to the unfolding of

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Exciting, humorous, sensitive, moving and poignant.

This book is a really outstanding read and although intended as a book for boys well deserves to be enjoyed by a wider audience. I still have my father's well thumbed copy with which he was awarded at his school prizegiving early in the last century and which has now reached the third generation! A real classic.