Re: Book Length and French Verbs


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Posted by Ed Kiser on May 24, 2013 at 17:51:30 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Book Length and French Verbs posted by John Nichols on May 24, 2013 at 16:16:04:

Did a scan for the word, "FRENCH" and came up with this:


---------- CCCH22.TXT
'andsome cosy. 'One o' them Frenchy fishermen'll wear it for

---------- GNCH24.TXT
"Yes," said Dorothea. "French Revolution. Waiting our turns and
"But they're just right," said Dorothea. "Better than French

---------- GNCH4.TXT
"French verbs more likely," said Titty. "I had to fill a whole book of
"Let me look," said Titty. "If it's French... But it isn't. And it isn't

---------- MLCH14.TXT
"Just try Roger in French," said Nancy, one time leader but now at
"They never are any good at French at boys' schools," said Nancy.

---------- PDCH14.TXT
there's another of those French fishermen... Not a sign of the Viper.
Frenchy boats fishing round here when they give me to the skipper of

---------- PDCH5.TXT
when some of them French fishermen come by and take us off the rock

---------- PDCH6.TXT
after. I worked for my keep with them French fishermen, and then one

---------- PPCH23.TXT
and some French beans. Titty wrote slowly on. She had

---------- SDCH1.TXT
who had had such awful troubles with her French verbs who was
French Grammar. This feeling of being two people at once in a

---------- SDCH14.TXT
was that you did not have to learn French verbs, but she did not
say so. The French verbs had to be learnt, anyhow.

---------- SDCH16.TXT
Titty on that morning had taken the telescope and a French
Titty took the telescope, and a moment later French verbs had
Titty gave him the telescope, took the edge of the French

---------- WDCH19.TXT
"I know a little French," he said. "But jolly little. I'm
"But perhaps he won't know French," said John. "And we
"I say," said Roger. "The pilot IS French. Look at the stern
voice as she asked, "Don't the French red, white and blue go

---------- WDCH21.TXT
of trying French.
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It seems that SWALLOWDALE is the one in which study of French Verbs came up, although lightly mentioned in ML and GN, at least the study of French in general, not necessarily just Verbs.

Hope this gives you what you were looking for, John.

And I still feel that the water source for Beckfoot was a hand powered pump, sucking up water from a pipe pushed down into the level of the water table as maintained by the proximity of the lake itself, as such would be more reliable than counting on fresh water coming down the river from up stream, considering the problem of dry weather, as was the case in PP. The water source was not actually documented in the books, so the above is just personal conjecture. I did grow up in a house that had a lever handle on a pump in the kitchen as the soul source of water in the house, so perhaps I can visualize that situation in my imaginary Beckfoot.

Ed Kiser, Kentucky


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