Re:was Winter Holiday - references: CHRISTMAS


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Posted by Ed Kiser on October 10, 2005 at 20:50:15 from 152.163.100.6 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Winter Holiday posted by John Nichols on October 10, 2005 at 15:18:10:

Did a SEARCH for "Christmas", and this is what was found.

Seems like a lot of references to flaming Christmas plum-pudding.

Apparently, there are two pocket knives with a file in it, John's
and Nancy's. John used his to prepare the bars to hold the crucible
in the furnace, and Nancy used hers to make a bar for the fireplace
in the Igloo.

There are several references to the Christmas Holidays when in the
wherry, they wrote the Peter Duck tale.

Ed Kiser, South Florida

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---------- BSCH20.TXT
"I'll have to give myself new ones for a Christmas
present," said the old parson, mounted his bicycle and rode
away.

[Conversation at the bicycle repair shop, referring to the
possibility of needing new tyres.]


---------- BSCH31.TXT
A few minutes later, in a smell of methylated that
reminded Pete of Bill's Christmas pudding, Dick was
holding up the negative and blowing at it to speed its
drying.

[Dick was in the darkroom, preparing the photo evidence.
This is one of many references to "Christmas Pudding."]


---------- BSCH9.TXT
"Christmas pudding," said Pete.

[D&G's were planning a feast in their boat for their friends.]


"Christmas pudding," said Pete, reading aloud from this label.

[D&G's were preparing the feast.]


Another match was lit, and the next moment Bill was
coming backwards into the cabin, bearing the Christmas
pudding in a sea of blue flames.

[D&G's were serving their feast in their boat.]


---------- GNCH4.TXT
"Provisions," said Roger. "I thought so. Bread... No... Cake of a
sort..." He had opened the paper and found a heavy hunk of cake, very
dark, like Christmas pudding.

[Roger was examining a parcel he found in his newly discovered
lookout place.]


---------- PDCH1.TXT
Susan had taken her tin box,
black, with a red cross on it, full of iodine and things for colds and
stomach-aches and sticking-plaster to put on people's knees. This had
been the best of Susan's Christmas presents and ever since Christmas
she had been almost pleased when anybody fell down (it was usually
Roger), sorry for him, of course, but pleased to have the chance of
patching him up again.

[They were putting on board the things to take on the voyage.]


--------- PMCH30.TXT
You've everything to bring down from that
old ruin. We must have them in their bedrooms like Christmas
again, ready for Mrs. Blackett coming home.

[Now that the GA is finally gone, Cook is getting them organized
to resume normal life again.]


---------- PPCH18.TXT
They could even see glimpses of the distant lake, and
the further hills, and High Greenland where, in the
Christmas holidays, Dick had rescued a crag-fast sheep. But
they had not climbed so high only to look at views.

[They were examining the white paint marks made by Squashy Hat,
and remembering their adventures as described in WINTER HOLIDAY.]


---------- PPCH25.TXT
"What's she said so far?" he asked, in a whisper, as he
found the page where, in the Christmas holidays, Nancy
had drawn the semaphore code for him.

[The missing younger ones, as they returned to the upset elders,
were signaling, with Dick referring to the codes in his pocket book,
another reference to the time in WINTER HOLIDAY when Nancy taught
them how to use codes.]


---------- PPCH29.TXT
He filed three
deep nicks in it with the file that was one of the most useful
tools in the knife he had been given at Christmas. Then,
bending the rusty rail this way and that he broke it at the
ticks into four pieces.

[John was preparing a way to hold the crucible in the furnace,
using a bit of old railing.]


---------- SDCH12.TXT
He had become very real indeed in the
story they had made up in the Christmas holidays. There was no
reason at all why he should not have a cave.

[Having found the cave in Swallowdale, they decided to name it
Peter Duck's Cave after the character they invented in "Peter Duck".]


---------- SDCH3.TXT
What they wanted
to do was to talk about the great-aunt and about schools and about
all sorts of things that had been happening since Christmas. They
were both tired of having only each other as listener.

[The Amazons were finally able to escape the GA long enough to be
with their old friends in Horseshoe Bay Camp.]


---------- SDCH7.TXT
This was not at all the way in which the Swallows had hoped
to meet Captain Flint. They had not seen him since the Christmas
holidays and the making up of the story in the cabin of the wherry.

[CF gets first look at the result of the shipwreck. Again, we have
here a reference to the writing of the "Peter Duck" story.]


---------- WHCH25.TXT
of the FRAM, with the stove burning strongly, and cold turkey, and
Christmas plum-pudding (that Captain Flint set on fire in the
fo'c'sle and brought in triumphantly flaming on its plate),

[During the blizzard, they were in the FRAM having a feast, without
Nancy, and without the D's.]


---------- WHCH28.TXT
Dorothea had unpacked the case and arranged its contents along one
of the benches, food enough to last a dozen people for a whole
day: two cold chickens and a Christmas pudding and what not,
with plates, knives, forks, spoons, and mugs.

[The D's had made it to the North Pole, and found the provisions.]


---------- WHCH3.TXT
Susan went on to tell them that they had been staying at Holly
Howe ever since Christmas and that they, too, would be going
back to school when the holidays came to an end.

[Having just met the D's, the S&A's are making introductions.]


---------- WHCH4.TXT
"I got a pocket-knife with a file in it at Christmas," said Captain
Nancy, sitting down close by the fireplace on one of several short,
stumpy logs, which were clearly meant for stools. "Jolly lucky.
But we pretty nearly wore it out filing through an old railing to
get that cross-bar.

[Nancy is telling the D's about how they got the bar for the fireplace.]


---------- WHCH9.TXT
"It's really as if the Christmas holidays began today instead of
on the day they did begin," said Titty.

[They have discovered that Nancy's illness has granted them an
extension to their Christmas holiday.]



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