Posted by Tim Johns on February 21, 2000 at 16:47:22 from wes75.bham.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Re: Newbie Query posted by Robert Hill on February 21, 2000 at 14:14:11:
The status of Peter Duck is made clear in Swallowdale Chapter 4:
Peter Duck had grown up to be one of the able-seaman's most constant
companions, shared now and then by the ship's boy, but not taken very
seriously by the others, though nobody laughed at him. He had been the
most important character in the story they had made up during those
winter evenings in the cabin of the wherry with Nancy and Peggy and
Captain Flint.