Posted by Ed Kiser on August 27, 2002 at 16:36:29 from 205.188.209.46 user Kisered.
In Reply to: question about a map in CC posted by Jonathan Labaree on August 26, 2002 at 18:49:57:
References to "CHAINS" as used to deny public access to private
properties, as found in COOT CLUB and BIG SIX:
COOT CLUB
chapter 9, p106
In another minute or two the Teasel was in the Straits, with
trees on either side of the narrow dyke. The dyke bent to the
left and divided into two, one branch blocked with posts and
chains, the other slowly widening towards a sheet of open
water, still as glass, except for birds swimming and stirring
the reflections of the reeds.
same chapter, p109
"It's the most gorgeous lake," said Dorothea. "We've
rowed all round it. It's full of good hiding-places."
"And birds," said Dick.
"And there's that place where the chains go across," said
Dorothea. "He could escape down that if they came here.
And that other place where they're cutting reeds. Anybody
could be an outlaw hidden in here for weeks and weeks while
people were hunting for him outside."
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BIG SIX
chapter 3, p47
"Tell us some more about what it used to be like," asked
Tom, and the old man talked of ancient times, of the
hundreds of wherries there used to be (he had been a
wherryman himself in his youth), of regattas on Barton, of
punt-gunning and smelt-catching on Breydon Water, of the
great flood of fifty years ago, and of the fights over the
chaining up of the entrances to some of the smaller Broads.
Chapter 11, p145
There were trees now on each side of them instead of only
reeds. The dyke divided, one branch, with chains across it,
leading to some private water, the other gradually widening,
leading to the open Broad.
"It's the Straits," cried Dorothea. "There's the place where
Titmouse was when Tom came back after dark, and we saw
the outlaw's lonely light. Here's where we were in Teasel.
There's the place where the Admiral painted out Titmouse's
name. There's Ranworth..."
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In this last reference, Dorothea is remembering their
previous time at this location, as described in my
first excerpt from CC, P106, listed above. So the
chain referenced here must be the same one mentioned
in CC as previously noted.
Ed Kiser, South Florida...