Posted by Ed Kiser on October 23, 2000 at 17:10:57 from 64.20.230.166:
In Reply to: Re: Pigeon Post Observations (not posted by Nina on October 23, 2000 at 07:27:48:
"PRUNE" References:
First, the last line from the chapter 12 of "Pigeon Post":
The prospectors sat down to supper in deep gloom.
At the very start of the very next Chapter 13:
They had nearly finished the rice and stewed prunes that
came at the end of that melancholy meal when Dick came
out with a surprising sentence.
"You know," he said, "I do believe there IS water up
there."
On the second page of that same chapter:
There was something in Nancy's voice that stopped Titty's
last spoonful of prune juice just as she was lifting it. Nancy,
she knew in a moment, was off on some new idea.
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These are the ONLY references to "prune" in the five stories that took
place at the lake.
Upon looking more closely at this, it appears that what was served was
not PRUNE JUICE, but STEWED PRUNES. After eating the prunes themselves,
there must have been some of the juice from those prunes still on the
plate, and that is what Titty was trying to scoop up.
This was not a breakfast, but a supper meal, at the end of the day. This
timing relieves me a bit from my original concern of their ability to
walk about across the Topps having eaten prunes which at first I had though
of their being eaten at breakfast.
Ed Kiser