Syd Belton: The Boy Who Would Not Go to Sea
Syd Belton: The Boy Who Would Not Go to Sea
By George Manville Fenn
19 Nov, 2019
Brief Extract: There was something tempting about that idea of being measured for a uniform, though Syd declared to himself he hated it. All the same, though, he went down the garden to where Barney was digging that morning, and after a little beatin
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Brief Extract: There was something tempting about that idea of being measured for a uniform, though Syd declared to himself he hated it. All the same, though, he went down the garden to where Barney was digging that morning, and after a little beating about the bush, asked him a question he could have answered himself, from familiarity with his father’s and uncle’s garb. Less