Posted by Ed Kiser on November 29, 2006 at 16:27:39 from 205.188.117.66 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: Captain Flint's box was travels. posted by Owen Roberts on November 29, 2006 at 12:34:22:
PD's treasure was found in a "brass-bound teakwood box" so perhaps that
description was an idea taken from using the concept of CF's box/trunk
as a role model for their made up story.
There was another wooden box with the inscription of "Mr. James Turner"
on the top, and that was the box with the chemical scales that was
considered by the GA to be important evidence regarding the robbery
at Beckfoot. (This in PM.)
In PD, Gibber's sleeping "container" was both a trunk and box, as:
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Roger's things had all gone into his kitbag, but Gibber had a box of his
own, with his blanket in it and a tin mug he particularly liked. Nancy
had taken charge of it and was laughing at seeing the monkey's name
in capital letters on the outside of his trunk.
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CAPTAIN FLINT'S TRUNK
Here are the references in SA to "TRUNK", with a reference in GN
to that SA trunk episode in SA :
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---------- GNCH29.TXT
Captain Flint's cabin trunk hidden under the stones of Cormorant
---------- SACH24.TXT
old cabin trunk, with his typewriter in it and the book he's been
---------- SACH26.TXT
cabin trunk. But everything that mattered was in it."
---------- SACH28.TXT
for the stolen trunk, the day before the battle in Houseboat
---------- SACH29.TXT
Flint rowed in the bows, looking at his old cabin trunk with its
ancient labels. Roger sat on the cabin trunk, looking at the big
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CAPTAIN FLINT'S BOX
There are other references to that "Mixed Moss" container in SA,
and a pair of references in WH to that SA event, using the word
"box":
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---------- SACH20.TXT
"Give us a hand with the box, then. Nobody'll look for it here."
---------- SACH25.TXT
lose it. Whoever the thief was, he took the box simply because it
---------- SACH26.TXT
might be some chance of getting my box back. But there was
"if that box is there I'll give you anything you'd like to have,
---------- SACH28.TXT
corner of a box.
a torn label on the corner of the box, a label with a picture of a
was removed the marvels of the box grew greater. It was entirely
was pulled away. The box had been put under the tree, in the
could hardly move them. As for shifting the box, it was like
---------- SACH29.TXT
the box. "Well done, Able-seaman!" he shouted. "Shiver my
Captain Flint dropped on his knees beside the box, and pulled
the stones where they hid my box. Then when they come on the
He hove up his box and put the fish and the pipe in the hole
where the box had lain.
be in bed), I should never have got that box again. I should have
been sorry to lose the old box, because it's been with me all over
And if those scoundrels had got away with the box I could never
I've got a long way to row. Come along." He hove the big box
---------- SACH31.TXT
down. And so you found Mr. Turner's box that was stolen. And
the Swallows had found the box.
which the Swallows had found the box that had been stolen from
---------- WHCH13.TXT
and Roger a monkey because they had found the box that had
---------- WHCH15.TXT
place under the roots of the fallen tree where Captain Flint's box
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So, as to the question of, was Captain Flints MIXED MOSS container
a TRUNK or a BOX, it seems he called it sometimes with one name,
then with the other, so it seems both are appropriate.
Be aware in the above quoted references, each line is completely
alone, not to be considered in context with another line, although
it is possible that two lines right together in the book did
contain the KEY word and both are therefore recorded here. Each
line is shown out of context, as it appeared in the book. It
may take a bit of hunting in that particular chapter to find the
referenced line to see the circunstances surrounding that line
in the listing of keyword hits.
Hope these references are helpful.
Ed Kiser, Kentucky