logoPeter Duck
CHARACTERS Swallows (John, Susan, Titty, Roger [7 1/2 yrs. old] Walker)
Amazons (Nancy, Peggy Blackett)
Captain Flint (Jim Turner)
Peter Duck
Bill
Black Jake
minor characters: Black Jake's brother George, Fighting Mogandy, Simeon Boon, "the bruiser from 'Ketch as Ketch Can'", Polly the parrot, Gibber the monkey
LOCATION Lowestoft Harbour, Crab Island
TIME told in the winter of 1930-1, but supposed to be taking place in early summer of 1931
BOATS Wild Cat, Swallow, Viper, Wild Cat's dinghy, (Peter Duck's wherry Arrow of Norwich)


TIMELINE

(numbers are days,
names are chapter titles)

1a

 Quayside

2a

 Red-Haired Boy

3a

 Trial Trip, Washing the Anchor, Peter Duck Spins His Yarn, And Wraps It Up

4a

 Outward Bound, First Night at Sea

5a

 Beachy Head to the Wight

6a

 Captain Flint's Fidgets

7a

 Blind Man's Buff, Decision, Quit of the Viper

8a

 Bill Finds His Place

9a

 Bill Finds His Place

10a

 Bill Finds His Place

11a-?

 The Madieras at Dusk, Trade Wind

1b

 Land Ho!

2b

 Island Morning, Blazed Trail, Duckhaven, Goodbye To the Wild Cat

3b

 Goodbye To the Wild Cat, Swallow's Voyage, Digger's Camp

4b

 Diggers at Work

5b

 Diggers at Work

6b

 Threatening Weather, Great Guns, Dirty Work

7b

 The Finding of the Treasure, Spanish Galleon, Dirty Work, The Only Hope, Whose Steps In the Dark?, All Aboard Once More

8b

 Waterspout, "Bonies" and "Mallies"

9b-?

 "Spanish Ladies"
NOTES The first of the "Peter Duck stories" told by the holidaying Swallows and Amazons with Captain Flint during winter evenings--this time in a wherry in the Broads; Susan had gotten her first aid box that Christmas; Sam Bideford was the extra adult who could make it that was supposed to crew; Bill is not as big as John but a good deal bigger than Roger, he is not as old as Nancy; The Amazons had been aboard a bit less than a week before the Swallows and the beginning of the book; Peter Duck had been shipwrecked about 60 years before (about 1870)

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