Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore

Devon Boys: A Tale of the North Shore is a juvenile adventure fiction novel written by English novelist and author of Children's literature.  He has written more than hundred books including Burr Junior, Marcus: the Young Centurion, Cormorant Crag: A Tale of the Smuggling Days, Old Gold: The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig, and Marcus: the Young Centurion.

Excerpts:

It doesn’t matter in the least when it was, only I may as well say when, any more than it does that everybody who knew my father, including Doctor Chowne of Ripplemouth, said he must be mad to go and buy, at the sale of Squire Allworth’s estate, a wild chasm of a place, all slaty rock and limestone crag and rift and hollow, with a patch of scraggy oak-trees here, some furze and heath there, and barely enough grass to feed half a dozen sheep, and that, even if it was cheap, because no one else would buy it, he was throwing good money away.