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Posted by Ed Kiser on February 21, 2010 at 18:00:05 user Kisered.

Nancy had her special vocabulary, so inherant in her presence that when Nancy was not around, as in WH,

Peggy tried to fill the gap by using Nancy's expressions. One of her expressions involved "Million

Cheers." But they were not always THREE MILLION.

"THREE MILLION CHEERS" Twelve occurances all together. SECRET WATER has a lot, but these are mostly

various ones quoting the message from Nancy, using the "dancing men semaphore," that had that expression.

In their discussion of that note, that saying was therefore repeated quite a few times.

"MISSEE LEE" - Nancy raised the ante here by shifting to more that THREE MILLION. There is one with THREE

THOUSAND MILLION CHEERS, and another with TEN THOUSAND MILLION CHEERS.

Then there is that time in COOT CLUB, when Nancy was not around at all, but her "cheers" were. Not sure

who said it. You might think that DICK had heard Nancy say that, remembering WINTER HOLIDAY, so perhaps he

is the one that used that expresson.

Ed Kiser, Kentucky
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CCCH22.doc
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Everybody was talking at once. "But that's a Thames barge." "Not at Horning." "Jim Wooddall took us in

Sir Garnet." "But the championship races..." "The A.P. going off in a rush and Ginty packing." "Awful

when you weren't at Stokesby or Yarmouth." "Hullabaloos?" "Nosing into Fleet Dyke looking for you."

"Needn't be back for a week." "Yes. In a cupboard bunk." "Oh, three million cheers!"
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GNCH20.doc
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"That settles it," said Nancy. "He's after us and he doesn't want us to know it. Three million cheers!

Well done, the goggles! And my yelling your name must have helped. All we've got to do now is to keep him

going."
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MLCH15.doc
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"Three million cheers," cried Nancy, and, as the cage was lowered to the ground, some frantic handshaking

was done through the bars.
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MLCH18.doc
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"Three million cheers," said Nancy. "I and Peggy have never seen it."
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MLCH27.doc
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"Three thousand million cheers," exclaimed Nancy, not even minding being called a foolish child.

"Barbecued billygoats, I thought Captain Flint was right. Cat and mouse, you know."
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MLCH8.doc
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"Hi! Captain!" Nancy's voice came from somewhere close by. And then, "Barbecued billygoats! Jibbooms

and Bobstays. Ten thousand million cheers! Shiver my timbers! KEEP STILL, PEGGY! It's the Swallows.

Here."
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SWCH1.doc
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John pulled a pencil out of his pocket and scribbled a letter of the alphabet under each of the dancing

figures. "T.H.R.E.E... M.I.L.L.I.O.N... C.H.E.E.R.S... Three million cheers."
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"Three million cheers," said Titty. "What for? She must have done something and thinks we know all

about it."
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"Captured the houseboat I should think," said Roger. "Or drowned the Great Aunt. She wouldn't send

three million cheers about nothing at all."
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Nobody at Pin Mill felt like three million cheers. They felt about Nancy's message almost as Roger had

felt about the "pudding faces". It was not fair. Three million cheers, indeed. Who could be expected to

cheer about anything on a day when the best plan ever made had been wiped out by stonyhearted Lords of the

Admiralty.
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SWCH10.doc
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"Three million cheers!" said John.
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SWCH2.doc
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"Captain Nancy'd just love to be marooned," said Titty. "But I expect they're doing something too. Sure

to be. They'll probably write and tell us about it. She wouldn't have sent three million cheers unless

they were up to something pretty larky."
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SWCH9.doc
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"It's a message," said Titty. She took her finger away, and showed the letters. "It says, 'Three

million cheers'."
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