Posted by Joy on July 17, 2006 at 16:08:11 from 195.157.57.17 user Joy.
In Reply to: Re: the "Walkers" vs. THE Walker posted by Owen Roberts on July 17, 2006 at 15:44:39:
It was Ransome's personal tribute to Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL where a street boy exclaims "Walker!" to Scrooge on being ordered to go and buy the largest turkey in the shop ("What! The one as big as me?!"). "Walker" hears means "unbelievable" and was Ransome's way of indicating to his readers, long before the Case of the Altounyan Slippers, that he had made up the whole story and that it was fiction and Not Real.