Signals from TARSUS & North Pole News February 2016

Contents A note from the (new) editor, p. 5 Ship's Papers: pg. 2 A View from the Helm — Robin Marshall, TARSUS Coordinator Greetings from the North — Ian Sacré, TARS Canada Coordinator A Note from the (New) Editor — Simon Horn Dipping our Hands: and the King — Gordon McGilton pg. 6 Kanchenjunga's Cairn: The Tent Maker’s Tale — Ian Sacré pg. 7 Captain Fint’s Trunk: The TARS 2015 Literary Weekend — Donald Tunnicliff Rice pg. 9 Pieces of Eight: The Junior Pages pg. 11 Peter Duck and the King p. 6

TARS 2015 Literary Lake Weekend, p. 9 seen from Orest Head

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Ship’s Papers — Important information for the Crew

A View from the Helm Ialsosentoutaletterregardingmailed By Robin Marshall, TARSUS Coordinator copies of the newsletter. In order for 210 18th Street NW Bradenton, FL 34205 us to continue with the publication, I am asking those who can receive [email protected] digital copies to accept these instead of mailed hard copies. Please respond I hope you all had a Happy Christmas, and very best if you have not already done so. Many wishes for 2016. I hope the New Year will be good for thanks to those who have offered to everyone. accept PDF copies, and to Avrum Lank who has offered to help with the The best news for 2016 is we now the same. I will accept checks and pass printing and mailing. have a new editor, Simon Horn, a the proceeds to Alan. It is $40.00 to Please note the new link if you wish to Canadian member who has taken the subscribe. pay your TARS subscription via reins from Elizabeth Jolley and as you More than a year has passed and I am Paypal: see made some interesting changes to still looking for someone to take over http://arthur-ransome.org.uk/ our joint newsletter. Please support from me as coordinator. So think TARS_Subscriptions.html his efforts with lots of articles. about having a go. I hope winter has been kind to you so Elizabeth Jolley gave us a long and I am very pleased that there has been far. Keep warm and enjoy if you can. dedicated time on the newsletter and a good response to the request for we all enjoyed her efforts a great deal, Robin renewals, so if you have not got round so it was a sad moment when she said to it yet, grab that checkbook. I would she could no longer carry on. We all remind you that if you are unsure if thank you Elizabeth. Obituary – Roger Wardale you have already paid, please contact Once again this year there is a new me first before mailing a check. I had Society founder book from Amazon Publications and a few last year who forgot and paid member and Alan Harkin, Arthur Ransome in Egypt. twice. Like last year, I am getting a author Roger Several TARSUS members have prompt notice of anyone who pays by Wardale passed already subscribed to the 2016 PayPal, so I hope I will not be sending away on Dec. publication. Alan really appreciates reminders again to people who have 28, 2015, after a their help. So please think about doing already paid. short illness. He was known for many Ran- some-related books, in particular, , Under Sail with Arthur Ransome. A full obituary can be found on the website of the Nancy Blackett trust: nancyblackett.org/2016/01/04/ obituary-roger-wardale

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Greetings from the North day I noted that the TARS Senior’s Overseas rate of 25.00 BPS equals By Ian Sacré, TARSCanada Coordinator $51.43 Canadian. In this period of 750 Donegal Place, North Vancouver, BC V7N 2X5 wildly fluctuating Canadian dollar val- [email protected] ues I believe we are close enough for this and all the other TARS fees. 6th January 2016 As I expect everyone knows by now, Simon Horn has very kindly agreed to Greetings to all Canadian TARS Members! Another take on the role of Editor of Signals Christmas has come and gone, the New Year is upon from TARSUS/North Pole News.I us, like it or not, and it is time to midnightonthelastdayofDecember. would ask you to shake up your cre- ‘get on with it’ as the saying goes. Sadly, one member has found it nec- ative juices and send Simon your con- essary to resign from our Society. TARS Membership renewals are tributions large or small, silly or seri- coming in nicely, and to all those that Finally, for those that are interested, a ous, whatever they may be! TARS have sent off their cheques, many recent check of currency exchange only exists because people care and many thanks. For those that still have rates indicates that we are very close share a common interest in ‘All not got around to the cheque writing to being spot on with the amount Things Ransome’ So let's all try to do chore, I would gently remind you that asked of Canadian TARS for this our bit. 2015 TARS Memberships expired at year's membership renewals. Yester-

All About Morse In 1837 two Brits, This past summer one of our mem- Cooke and Wheat- bers asked if I could help decipher stone got involved in a some Morse Code letters and numer- separatebutsimilarac- r system al- als she had applied in needle point to tivity. Thei so used electromag- a beautifully made cushion depicting nets, but instead of a scene from that she clicks and silence gaps had made many years ago. I had had they used arms that ro- to learn both Morse Code and Sema- tated above alphabet phore as a young merchant navy offi- charts to indicate the cer many years ago, but had to refer to letters being sent. In an old text book to check my aging 1841 Cooke and memory. This exercise made me curi- Wheatstone built an ous as to when Morse Code had come improved system that into being, something I never took the printed the letters time to consider before. from a wheel of type- Apparently, in 1836 an American faces struck by a elec- artist, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Ameri- tromagnetic driven can physicists Joseph Henry and Al- hammer. Sadly the fred Vail developed an electrical tele- lack of customers graph system of sorts. The apparatus brought their idea to a sent electrical pulses along wires to an halt. electromagnet and a code was needed to transmit a message using the pulses Back in the States, and silence periods between them. meanwhile, the three The variations of Morse Code.

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Americans had moved ahead and ference in Paris and was used world- to send a message and for the poor built a system where a moving electro- wide. In my days at sea I recall that all candidate to read out the letters sent, magnetic driven stylus made an in- long distance ‘traffic’ was sent and aloud and for the examiner's secretary dent on a moving paper tape. When a received in Morse by our radio opera- to write down the letters on a pad as short silence gap or period occurred tor. He would receive meteorological the examinee called them out. At the the stylus was retracted momentarily Fleet Forecasts at thirty words a end of each word the candidate was to by a spring and a gap appear on the minute! the sounds echoing from the call out ‘break’ loud and clear. The tape unmarked. A code was devel- radio room being almost a blur to the problem was that under the stress of oped for each letter and numeral so untrained ear. One would find oneself the examination room setting it took that operators could decipher the in- chatting with the operator, with all of one's concentration just to get dents and gaps made on the tape. But Morse code sounding in the back the letters right let alone knowing interestingly, the operators soon ground when suddenly ‘Sparks’ when one came to the end of a word! found they did not need the tape and would say, “There's our call sign, traf- Most of us were saved by the examin- could translate the sounds the stylus fic coming in”! And he would imme- er's dear old secretary who seemed old made directly by listening. diately acknowledge the sending sta- enough to us whippersnappers to be In developing the code Vail examined tion in Morse and start receiving the our grandmother. At the end of each the frequency with which letters were message. word spelt out by the sweating candi- date she would loudly thump her used in the local Morristown newspa- Morse Code was used for 160 years notebook with the point of her pencil per. In the electrical transmissions of and was phased out as the Interna- and we would cry out ‘break!’ right on their device the short marks were tional standard for maritime distress cue. I am not sure if the examiner ever called dots and the longer ones dashes in 1999. In 1997, when the French twigged to her kindly helpbut she was and as the result of his examination of Navy sent their final message in always presented with a large box of the newspaper, Vail decided that the Morse Code on the 31st January that chocolates on passing our compe- most commonly used letters should year, they sent, “Calling All. This is tency examinations! be assigned the shorter sequences of our last cry before our eternal si- dots and dashes. In terms of time in- lence.” While in the United States the Those were the days. Poor Arthur tervals one dot was considered one final Morse transmission on July 12, Ransome would never have dreamed unit and a dash was considered three 1999 was Samuel Morse's original that Morse Code would virtually cease units and the gap between letters was 1844 message, “What hath God to be taught or used, though I under- three units and between words seven wrought”. stand that the United States Air Force units of time. still trains ten people a year in Morse One final personal anecdote comes to Code. There were at least three different mind. As a young officer undergoing codes the American (Morse or Rail- the horrors of yet another group of Wishing you all fair winds and calm way), Continental (Gerke) and Inter- examinations, the day came when I seas until the next time, national (ITU). The international had to demonstrate my proficiency in Best regards, Morse Code was standardized in 1865 reading Morse Code sent by an Aldis Ian Sacré at the International Telegraphy Con- lamp. The drill called for the examiner

Useful Links The Arthur Ransome Society (TARS) website: http://www.arthur-ransome.org.uk All Things Ransome, a website devoted to keeping articles, artwork, and anything related to Ransome: http://www.allthingsransome.net The Arthur Ransome Wiki, an encyclopedia on Ransome, his life and works: http://arthur-ransome.wikia.com/wiki/Arthur_Ransome_Wiki

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A Note from the (New) Editor Bookshop in Cambridge for 13/6. For the next two or three years, every By Simon Horn, [email protected] Christmas and birthday — and every time my pocket money stretched to it In 1962, or thereabouts, I wrote a letter to Arthur — I got a new Ransome book. Today Ransome. I was one of thousands of children who my collection, alas with only some of wrote to ask him every sort of question under the sun. its tattered dust jackets, is lined up in I sent my letter to Jonathan Cape in the hopes that the a glass-fronted bookcase, alongside publisher would forward it to the right address. They other treasures and many more books did. both by and about Arthur Ransome. At the time I did not realize that my grandparents in England for the The irony is that Ransome mis- question was the same one so many the 12, summer of 1959. My uncle had understood my question. I knew that children asked: Were the Swallows lined up in their original dust jackets, Peter Duck and Missee Lee weren’t real and Amazons stories real? I seem to safely kept in a closed bookcase. I am — that would have been impossible. remember that my letter said not sure I was allowed to read his copy It was the other 10 stories I wanted to something like, are the stories based of , but I do know about. Now, many years later, I on fact? At 11 or 12 I knew they were know I was soon the proud owner of have learned a lot more about Arthur stories, but they were so real that it my own, purchased at Heffers Ransome, his origins, his background seemed to me that they had to and his sources, but also about be based on real adventures by writing. Of course they were real children. based on fact, but they were Eventually I received an stories, real to their readers. answer, handwritten on the *** great man’s Swallows and Amazonsnotepaper.Ashehad I am very pleased to be the new no doubt answered so many editor of Signals from TAR- times before, Ransome said: SUS/North Pole News. This is your newsletter, however, so “If you look at the title-pages, please let me know what you you will see that two of those would like to see in it, and do books are of a different kind of send me contributions. You reality. may think that you can’t write, If they seem real to you while butifyouhaveideasorpictures you are reading them, nothing or experiences to share, the else matters. newsletter needs them. To- gether we can beat them into Good luck to you, shape! Arthur Ransome.” My best wishes to all of you for And that really is the point. the coming year. My aim is to From the day I first read publish the usual three issues a Swallows and Amazons at nine year, so keep those contribu- years old, the stories swallowed tions coming. Earlier is better! me up. Simon I had discovered them at my uncle’s house, while visiting my

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Dipping our Hands — Personal relationships with the books

Peter Duck and the King: My Introduction to Swallows and Amazons By Gordon McGilton I cannot remember when I was first King Edward but I keenly listened as she read us the introduced to a book, except on one VII was still on first three chapters. I remember that I special occasion. the throne. learned a new word: quay. June 10, 1939 was a very special day I lived in a She also said that the author had for a young boy. It was the day I saw small town in written other books, and that they had King GeorgeVI and Queen Elizabeth southern five of them. on their royal tour of Canada. Quebec on the After that I borrowed their books and The 1939 royal tour created great Vermont my mother read them to me. Peter excitement in Canada, since it was the border. On the Duck was good, but I was enthralled first time a reigning monarch had morning in question we drove 30 with Swallows and Amazons and visited Canada. While King George V miles north to Sherbrooke, a small . I was a Ransome fan for and Queen Mary had visited Canada city that the tour was to visit. life. in 1910, at the time they were still the There were six of us in the car: me, my My father bought me the other seven Duke and Duchess of York, since parents, our next door neighbour, his books as they became available. But wife and their son, who had I not been introduced to AR that was my age. We had just day I might never have heard of him, turned seven the previous as neither my school nor our local month. library had any Ransome books. When we arrived in Not long before the royals were to Sherbrooke, the fathers arrive, our mothers discovered that went off to join the other some friends were sitting in the front veterans, as they had both row, almost on the street. It was our served in the First World local member of parliament and his War. The mothersand the wife, and we boys were taken down to two boys were given seats sit with them. When the royals did at the top of a special stand arrive we had a great view, but all I which had been built for remember is that I was very dis- the royal visit. It was late appointed the King was not wearing a morning but the stand was crown. quite empty, as the royals What a day for two lucky boys. No were not expected before wonder I remember it. Most of our the afternoon. friends weren’t given such an My friend’s mother had opportunity to see the royals. But for brought a book to read to me, that day was really important us to pass the time. It was because it was the day when I was was Peter Duck. I had never introduced to the works of AR, which heard of Arthur Ransome, have meant so much to me all my life.

Gordon McGilton, aged 7, (right) listening to the first chapters of Peter Duck, while waiting for the King and Queen in 1939.

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Kanchenjunga's Cairn — Places we've been and our adventures The Tent Maker’s Tale By Ian Sacré I suppose that I slept under canvas came to the rescue for she had been to his steam turbine! The next day saw longbeforeIwasabletoread andages determined not to have helpless sons me ashore again, this time to a canvas before I actually read Swallows and and had taught us all to sew and use shop where I bought a large bolt of Amazons. I was fortunate to grow up her trusty treadle Singer Sewing Ma- number 10 chocolate coloured can- in the country and had the run of a chine. vas, numerous spools of thread and more sewing machine needles. large English garden with spacious Making sails for clinker built dinghies lawns, or so they seemed to me as a and kites became common place fam- It is amazing when one starts a large four or five year old. ily projects during school holidays. personal project aboard ship just how So it was natural to want to ‘camp out’ My ship sometimes called into Port- much ‘help’ one receives. on summer nights with my brothers. land, Maine and one afternoon on a Advice flowed freely from all direc- Invariably my younger brother would run ashore I passed a second hand tions, roof pitch angle, ridge height, disappear indoors when the owls shop. In the window was an ancient height of sides, floor, windows, started hooting and my older brother Singer Sewing Machine just like my screens closures, doors, ridge poles terrified him with stories of headless Mother’s. Stuck on it was a large price tent poles, all were debated and dis- ghosts lurking in the bushes! tag, twelve dollars! cussed ad nauseam. Detailed drawing Camping and sailing holidays came Into the shop I went for a closer look, after drawing was made and finally I and went and the years flew by. I was asked the proprietor if I could give it started construction. The tent was to married and well into my seagoing ca- a test run. “Don't know how it be twelve feet square, sixfeet even at reer and had reached the rank of Chief works”; said he. “I do” said I and rum- the eve and nine feet at the ridge. A Officer on large foreign-going cargo maged around in the drawers and large window with roll down cover ships. With four deck officers I did found thread and needles. The ma- was to be set in the two sides and the not have to keep a bridge watch and chine worked like a dream and I gladly back and the openings to be covered thus had most of my evenings free as handed over the twelve dollars and with a permanent nylon fly screen. It we plodded along various trade routes asked the store owner if he would call would have two segmented poles to day after day at a steady twelve knots. me a taxi, for my ship was berthed support the ends at the ridge and three about a mile away. shorter poles on each side to support Recalling Swallows and Amazons one the eves. Heavens, it was to have ev- The taxi came, we loaded the machine day, I remembered that Mrs. Walker erything except rain gutters! into the trunk and off we went to my had made the tents for the Swallows and what greater inspiration than that ship and unloaded the monster at the The project went on for weeks, hours did I need? And thus it was that I de- bottom of the accommodation lad- spent in the engine-room machine cidedmybrideandIneededatent,but der. Two seaman were told off to shop making tent poles from old con- not just any tent, a palatial tent and I fetch the beast on board and put it in denser tubes. Tent pegs made from would build it! As a young sailor ‘serv- my cabin. Within minutes, I had visi- used hardwood cargo dunnage. ing my time’ I had been taught to sew tors as word spread about the eccen- Hours more spent sewing. Officers canvas with a palm and needle, wax tric Chief Officer’s latest madness. popping in and out during the evening and thread but the thought of sewing Deckofficerscametolookatmyprize to see the progress, staying to chat. a large tent all by hand was somewhat and one engineer even came with a oil Often helping to guide the heavy can- daunting! What to do? can and gave it a squirt or two, declar- vas through the machine as I sewed. ing it was a fine piece of machinery My dear old bosun even ‘found’ suit- Fortunately my Mother’s foresight that should add a horsepower or two able cordage for guys. Finally it was

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done, and of course there was a need the rain and wind continued, the gusts see everything covered in half an inch to erect it on number three hatch cov- shaking the car as they blasted across of frozen rain! The tent was coated er for a test on a homeward bound the road. By mid afternoon we had with ice and the ground was like a voyage. The tent was declared a fine arrived near Whycocomagh and de- skating rink! The early morning sun piece of canvas work by my Captain cided to stop at the park nearby for cast long shadows and created a real who had served in Grand Banks fish- the night. At the time it did not seem winter wonderland scene. ing schooners as a lad! odd to us that there where no other mpers to be seen! With much fan- But the fun began after breakfast When the Taj Mahal as it came to be ca fare we dragged the tent out of the car when we had to continue on our way. known was folded up, it took almost and during a brief lull between rain Trying to take down and fold up an two men to lift it! Not to worry, I was squalls we erected the tent quite close enormous ice covered heavy canvas confident it would work. to a large cooking shelter. The rain tent took hours but as we worked, it It was Autumn and I had a month's and wind returned with gusto just as began to warm up a bit and we man- leave so Brenda, my wife, and I decid- we were putting the finishing touches aged to finally to get the whole con- ed it would be a perfect time to trial to our abode for the night. A thor- traption stuffed back into the car. I the tent by takingamotor camping ough inspection showed no leaks and wondered at the time what it must trip around Cape Breton Island to see my wife was suitably impressed with have been like furling sail down in the the leaves and celebrate Thanksgiv- my workmanship. Roaring Forties in mid winter. The ing. With a great deal of huffing and next two days of the long weekend After cooking supper and reading by puffing we managed to get the tent were idyllic, the colours of the turning lamplight it was time for bed. Listen- and poles loaded into the back of our leavesattheirverybest.Andthankful- ing to the thrumming of canvas and small Falcon station wagon together ly, erecting the tent became easier as guy lines my wife asked if we were with all our camping gear and set off the canvas slowly dried. likely to blow away in the night. on our expedition in a full blown At- Stopping at our friends house on the lantic gale with it’s customary torren- “Never!” I said, “After all you are way home we related a much embel- tial rain. We had planned on introduc- married to a trained Merchant Navy lished version of our adventure while ing our dear friends David and Mari- Officer and we do not allow things to they sat with mouths agape and wide on to the delights of camping but just blow away!” eyed. When our tale was finished when we stopped at their door at eight Morningcameand whenweawokeall David looked at Marian and said, “We in the morning to pick them up, David was quiet. The storm front had appar- wereright, theyarequitemadbutthey came to the door in his pyjamas and ently passed through. With some dif- really do seem to have enjoyed them- said “Surely you are not going in this? ficulty I got the door of the tent selves immensely.” The tent was put You must both be mad! We'll see you opened and stepped out and immedi- into retirement shortly afterwards, if and when you survive! I am going ately shouted for my wife to come and but never ever leaked a drop! I like to back to bed!” look. Coming to the tent door in her think Mrs. Walker would have been As we drove north east from Halifax, nightie she gasped in amazement to proud!

At a certain point, Ian wondered if perhaps his tent making activities had gotten out of hand!

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Captain Flint's Trunk — News from abroad The TARS 2015 Literary Weekend By Donald Tunnicliff Rice I was fortunate in 2015 to be able to animals. Unlike most attend the Literary Weekend at British colleges and uni- Sparsholt College, September 4-6. versities, Sparsholt is Sparsholt is just outside Winchester, a crawling with beasts rang- city of 45,000 souls situated sixty ing from lizards to cows. miles southwest of London. It’s quite The latter, I’m sure, were an interesting school, where students the creatures responsible learn everything from repairing a farm for gently tinting the tractor to managing a zoo to felling a nighttime air. tree – plus a great deal more as they work their way to a Bachelor of Sci- I think there was a tour of encedegree.Bytheunlikeliestofcoin- the school on Saturday af- cidences, a young man whom I’ve ternoon, which I would knownsince he was just a lad arrived have enjoyed, but I chose at Sparsholt to begin his college career instead to board a leased (in fisheries management) the same bus that took some of us day our conference ended. to Winchester for a walk- ing tour of that ancient Sparsholt has around 400 resident city. As with so many students occupying just about the British towns and cities, it same number of acres, which include has prehistoric roots, fol- Winchester Cathedral a fully operational farm. On my sec- lowed by Roman and me- ond night I found myself having is Alfred’s bones have been mis- dieval periods, eventually arriving at placed. A couple of years ago, a piece pleasant memories of summer visits the early modern times, generally con- to my cousin Bruce’s family farm. At of a pelvic bone turned up that was sidered to begin around the reign of strongly believed to be either his or his first I was puzzled, but after a few sec- Henry VIII. onds I realized that the country air was son’s, but that has yet to be proven. permeated with the faint odor of farm The main attraction in Winchester is the cathedral, one of To pay homage to the largest in all Eu- the great man rope. Medievalists are you’ll have to visit delighted by the mor- his heroic bronze tuary chests containing statue a couple of the remains of Wessex hundred yards kings, starting with away at the eastern Cynegils (611-643); end of The Broad- however, you will not way. find a chest containing Does anyone know the bones of the most if Ransome ever famous Wessex king, Alfred the Great. It’s a A tiny bookshop A pause during our guided walking tour of Winchester long story, but the fact down a narrow alley

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The house on Cottage Street where Jane Austen died. This is a private home with no accommodation for visitors. The other famous author buried in Winchester Cathedral is Jane Austen (1775-1817). Austen spent most of her life in Hampshire, of which Winchester is what we would call the county seat. She had been quite ill and, with hersister Cassandra and brother Henry, was staying in Winchester to consult with a particular doctor thought to be an expert in what ailed her, a topic which today still remains unsettled. Anyway, the doctor was of no help, and Jane died in the arms of her sister. Henry, who was an Anglican clergy- visited the cathedral? He might very man (and Jane’s literary agent) used well have in order to stop by the grave his influence to have her buried in the of Izaak Walton, whose Compleat An- cathedral. Only four people attended gler he reviewed on the tercentenary of the service, not including her sister Cassandra. In those days it was con- Alfred the Great holds his sword high that famous book’s publication. The near the site of our parked leased bus. review was broadcast on BBC and al- sidered unseemly for females to at- so reprinted in Mainly about Fishing. tend funerals. People have long been I’d arranged beforehand to stay at a perplexed by the fact that Henry in- B&B for a couple of nights after the cluded no mention of conference ended so I might have a Jane’s auctorial talents little extra time to dig deeper into on the floor stone under Winchester’s interesting past and visit which she is buried. its many museums; it was well worth This omission was cor- it. rected fifty-three years I mention all this just to show the ex- later by a nephew who tended pleasures of attending a TARS had a large brass plaque conference, literary or otherwise. In installed nearby. Final- addition to being welcomed by fellow ly, in 1900, a window Swallows and Amazons enthusiasts, dedicated to Austen hearing great talks, and eating deli- was installed in that cious food, you’ll have the opportuni- same area. Today her ty to acquaint yourself with a patch of grave remains a profit Great Britain you might otherwise center for the cathedral never have wandered into. as pilgrims from around the world pay to gain Cheers . . entrance so they might The floor stone under which Jane Austen is buried. visit it.

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Pieces of Eight — The Junior Pages

Signals from TARSUS/North Pole News still needs a first mate to help with Pieces of Eight, a junior TAR or retired pirate to gather material to interest our younger members. We need your contributions too: your stories, experiences or ideas.

Which Book? What's Happening? For this issue, a test of your knowledge of the books. On the next two pages you will find a picture from each of the 12 books. Can you identify them? Print out the pages, then write the title of the book on the first line, and what is happening, or the caption, on the second line. The answers are on the back page, upside down. No cheating!

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Oulton Dike, just west of the entrance to the Broad

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Answers to the Which Book? What's Happening? quiz (p. 11)

Signals from TARSUS/North Pole News is a joint publication of TARSUS (The Arthur Ransome Society USA) and TARS Canada. The TARSUS Coordinator is Robin Marshall, [email protected] The TARS Canada Coordinator is Ian Sacré, [email protected] The editor is Simon Horn, [email protected] Please send contributions, questions and suggestions for the newsletter to the editor.

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