Rewards and Fairies

6

The old lady’s prophecy is in a fair way to come true, for when the Panama Canal is finished, one end of it will open into the very bay where Sir Francis Drake was buried. Then ships will be taken through the Canal, and the road round Cape Horn which Sir Francis opened will be abandoned.

7

This is the Norman knight they met the year before in Puck of Pook’s Hill. See ‘Young Men at the Manor,’ ‘The Knights of the Joyous Venture,’ and ‘Old Men at Pevensey,’ in that book.

8

See ‘Old Men at Pevensey’ in Puck of Pook’s Hill.

9

See ‘The Knights of the Joyous Venture,’ in Puck of Pook’s Hill.