



Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England




Through Veld and Forest, by Harry Collingwood.

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The hero of the story is Edward Laurence, an 18-year-old living on a
farm in South Africa.  The date is in the earlier part of the nineteenth
century.  The boy is sent off on a shopping expedition which will take
several days, but when he gets back he finds that there has been an
attack on the farm, his father and mother are dead, and all the stock
has been taken away.  He goes to the neighbouring farm, and finds that
the same applies there, except that he realises that the young 12-year
old daughter, Nell, has been taken away alive.  Edward's father had
always spent the profits on improving the breeding-stock, so Edward has
very little money in hand.  He goes to a town where he has friends, and
one of them