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<DIV>I have to admit that I thought the same about pirate buses. One of
our VWSGB Members told me. Now I’ve discovered lots of info. Below
is the most famous: the “Chocolate Express”.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here’s an example of something I didn’t know I didn’t know until I found
out I didn’t know a few years ago: what’s a street scavenger? They
pop up in T. S. Eliot’s ‘A Cooking Egg’ (1920): ‘The red-eyed scavengers are
creeping | From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green’. They are also mentioned
in “The Years” and “Jacob’s Room”.</DIV>
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<DIV>Answer: persons ‘whose employment is to clean streets, by scraping or
sweeping together and removing dirt’ (OED).</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Jeremy
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 5, 2021 4:48 PM</DIV>
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<P>It's a good example of what for many might be an unknown unknown: those
unfamiliar with cricket might well assume that the nets are for tennis. (Another
unknown unknown for me was the pirate bus in Mrs Dalloway - which before you
contextualised it, Stuart, I thought was just a bit of romancing on Elizabeth's
part. Annotators, I agree, need to be alert to the possibility of such
ignorance.) The things we know we don't know can always be looked up; the things
we don't know we don't know remain unresearched.<BR></P>
<P>J<BR></P>
<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 05.04.2021 17:23, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
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<DIV>It was intended as a gentle tease of foreigners outwith the Empire – but
also an implied criticism of annotated editions that don’t explain what
readers might need to know.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 5, 2021 4:10 PM</DIV>
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<P>I suspect you of playing "tease the foreigner" Stuart! I had a memory that
when in Hollywood, Sir Cedric Hardwicke expected all expatriot Brits to turn
up for net practice for the local cricket team, but could not find this on
line. But I did find this, from around the time of <I>The Waves</I>:</P>
<P>"The headmaster of High Wycombe Royal Grammar School, Mr. E.R.Tucker, in an
effort to stimulate the interest of parents in school affairs, has arranged
cricket practice at the nets for fathers once a week."<BR><BR>Evening Post,
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 05.04.2021 16:40, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
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<DIV>When the boys are at school in “The Waves”, Louis “said”:</DIV>
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<DIV>“We are parting, some to tea; some to the nets ...”</DIV>
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<DIV>Alles klar?</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
<DIV>(Day 384)</DIV>
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