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Notes on the text These notes, by John McGivering, are partly new, and partly based on the notes on this tale in the ORG. The page and line numbers below refer to the Macmillan (London) Standard Edition of Plain Tales from the Hills, as published and frequently reprinted between 1899 and 1950. |
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[Draft of Mar 9 2003]
[Page 15, heading] collected in Definitive Verse, the Sussex Edition, and Collected Verse and Sussex Edition. The references are to the training of young horses.
[Page 15, line 11] Old Brown Windsor a brand of soap.
[Page 16, line 13] Sandhurst The Royal Military College at Sandhurst in Surrey where officers are trained for the Army.
[Page 16, line 21] came out passed out at the end of the course .
[Page 16, line 25] third-rate depôt [?]
[Page 17, line 18] Home-furlough leave in the United Kingdom. (From the Dutch vurlof)
[Page 17, line 18] acting-allowances extra pay for doing the job of a senior without being promoted.
[Page 18, line 8] whist a card game, popular before the invention of bridge.
[Page 18, line 8] gymkhanas sports meetings with or without mounted events, from the Hindi gend-khana (ball-house, the name usually given to a racquets-court. [Hobson-Jobson]
[Page 18, line 11] head the hangover or headache that follows over indulgence in alcohol.
[Page 18, line 15] two-goldmohur the chief gold coin of British India was the Mohur, worth 16 Rupees [Hobson-Jobson]
[Page 18, line 16] maiden ekka-ponies ponies under 14 hands (4 feet, 8 inches at the shoulder who have never won a race. An ekka is a light two-wheeled carriage.
[Page 18, line 16] manes hogged clipped.
[Page 18, line 17) the Derby the leading English race, run over one and a half miles at Epsom, Surrey established in 1780 and named after the 12th Earl of Derby.
[Page 19, line 20] wigging a reprimand.
[Page 19, line 23] kicked the beam tilted the balance.
[[Page 19, line 31] Rest House a pleasant but lonely building, quieter than a dak-bungalow.[See Preface. No. V ?]
[J. McG.]
