Posted by Woll on March 22, 2010 at 13:16:23 user Woll.
The following extract is from Coot Club, chapter 15 ('Port and Starboard say goodbye"):
"The puir wee doggie", said Port, turning suddenly away and looking out of a porthole.
Does anyone know what this refers to?
The only reference I have found is:
http://www.sermonsearch.com/content.aspx?id=24134
which I assume is correct.
From the wikipedia page on Ian Maclaren,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Maclaren
it sounds as if his works were well-known, so maybe that's correct, although they were published in the 1890s. Does anyone know if they were still well-known in the 1930s?
I assume that Port is not really crying because of thinking of the doggie, but because she is sad she and Starboard are not going.