The Gorse Blooms Pale by Dan Davin

Author:Dan Davin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1Paddy’s Market … Society: possibly held in St Mary’s Hall near the Basilica.

2the Dunedin express run: the main passenger line from Invercargill through Dunedin to Christchurch. The Invercargill crew would disembark at Dunedin, which is approximately halfway, in order to take over the express arriving from Christchurch for the run from Dunedin back to Invercargill. On Patrick Davin’s employment as a guard see ‘First Flight’; ‘Failed Exorcism’; FW, pp. 8–10.

3Mr Pratt: the Davin’s neighbour who lived at 49 Morton Road. See ‘Milk Round’.

4‘Every Picture Tells a Story’: an allusion to the advertising slogan of the early 1900s for Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills. See Elizabeth Knowles, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 5th edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), s.v. ‘Advertising Slogans’, p. 19.

5Don’t you fret your fat: don’t get upset about it. Colloq., ‘Don’t stew over it’.

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