Mrs Bathurst

			Windsor Magazine	*Traffics and Discoveries*
1	Page 339	line 3	Indeed, she was just steaming …	She was just steaming …
2		line 8	five p.m.	5 P.M.
3		line 11	one brake-van	a brake-van
4		line 14	the early goods comes along	the goods comes along
5		line 16	the Greeks of Simon’s Town who sell	the Greeks who sell
6		line 19	in the sand	in sand
7		line 21	dunes, whiter than any snow in the sunshine, rolled	dunes, whiter than any snow, rolled
8		line 22	brown-and-purple valley	brown and purple valley
9		line 25	blue-and-green boats	blue and green boats
10	Page 340	line 6	yellow rocks	piled rocks
11		line 12	“tickey” beer	tickey beer
12		lines 19-20	(not included)	the voices of the picnickers
13		line 21	the presence of the sun	the presence of the assured sun
14		line 24	Fairyland	fairyland
15		line 26	“Oh! Stop that!”	“Stop that!”
16		line 27	cursed little Malay boys	dirty little Malay boys
17		line 33	(not included)	he felt in his waistcoat pocket
18	Page 341	line 1	Wankie – beyond Bulawayo	Wankies – beyond Buluwayo
19		line 17	dockyard hands for two months, so to anticipate	dockyard ‘ands for two months, with boiler seatings
20		line 26	the brake-van	the van
21		line 31	slid out	drew out
22	Page 342	line 1	the look in your starboard eye	the look in the eye
23		line32	slung out of the pub	turned out of the pub
24	Page 343	line 10	woods behind Vancouver	woods of British Columbia
25			is still a legend	used to be a legend
26		line 15	Told he had	He told us he had
27		line 18	Barnato orphan	Barnado Orphan
28		line 20	Patterson	Paterson
29	Page 344	lines 6-7	“…. Give us a quarter. What was it, Pye?” “Section of one hundred and six acres if we applied for it. Don’t get hot, Pritch. We believed it.”	“…. Give us a farm!” “Don’t get hot, Pritch. We believed”, said Pyecroft
30		line 10	makes himself important	have himself talked of
31		line 14	fine pack o’ silly idiots	nice pack o’ idiots
32	Page 345	line 6	Mormonistic	Mormonastic
33		lines 27-28	Look at Click	Look at – you know
34		line 34	whose name	‘oo’s name
35	Page 346	line 6	Went up country	Up-country?
36		line 10	the railway	the line
37		line 14	the Lake Flotilla	the Nyassa Lake Flotilla
38		line 15	in command	in full command
39		line 16	an armed launch on the lake	an armed launch there
40		line 24	the thing	the casus belli
41		line 27	D’you get a reward	Does the Railway get a reward
42	Page 347	line 3	fixedly	very fixedly
43		line 8	screwed down	screwed home
44		line 10	Hence “Click”- Mr. Vickery was ‘is Number One Name. They called ‘im ….	‘Ence, “Click”. They called ‘im ….
45		line 12	genteelly ‘alf-bred beggar	genteelly speaking, ‘alf-bred beggar
46		lines 14-15	“Four false teeth on the lower left jaw?” said Hooper suddenly, his hand ….	“Four false teeth in the lower left jaw,” said Hooper, his hand ….
47		line 19	‘ospitality	‘orspitality
48		line 22	bristling all over	crimsoning rapidly
49	Page 348	line 3	he began	he began, wavering
50		line 12	a man	a gentleman
51		line 15	Why did he run?	Why did Vickery run?
52		line 21	Good Lord!	By Gawd!
53		line 32	Good Lord!	Good Lord Alive and Watchin’!
54	Page 349	lines 2-3	(not included)	She wasn’t that!
55		line 12	mightily	greatly
56	Page 350	line 8	every night or so, you see	every night or so
57		line 11	Slits is my particular	this is my particular
58		line 17	said the sailor-man	said the sailor
59	Page 351	line 26	affectionate	intimate
60		lines 32-33	the last?	the last – and one more?
61	Page 352	line 2	relieved	relievedly
62		line 3	might you have been	might you ‘ave been
63		line 12	it	It
64		line 14	know	live with
65		line 16	were black or white	talked in their sleep or not
66		line 21	None whatever	None whatever. I know that!
67		lines 24-25	“He’s liable to go crazy,” was the answer.	“He goes crazy – or just saves himself,” was the slow answer
68		line 32	I can’t say	That’s the dark and bloody mystery
69	Page 353	line 14	means of ascertainin’	aids to ascertainin’
70		line 19	No, I was up-country – near the Zambesi if you	No – up-country
71		lines 22-23	“Home and Friends” for a tickey	“Home and Friends for a Tickey”
72	Page 354	line 3	gets fed up with Capetown sooner	gets fed up with Cape Town quicker
73		line 22	warrant officer	Warrant Officer
74		line 32	shillin’ seats	shillin’ places
75		line 33	sixpenny seats	tickey seats
76	Page 355	line 5	(Second “Not now” omitted)	not now. Not now
77		line 15	(not included)	– previous to birth as you might say
78		line 16	bestial	beastial
79		line 18	Ah!	Perhaps
80		line 22	went on clicking an’ suckin’ his lips	went on clicking
81		lines 27-28	Of course, they are the very thing itself, when you think of it – all from nature	Of course they are taken from the very thing itself, you see
82		line 33	she ran so lifelike	she headed so straight
83	Page 356	line 2	just like nature	just like life
84		line 3	anyone of ’em	any one
85		line 14	look that	look which
86		line 17	sixpenny seats	tickey seats
87		line 18	Look! That’s Mrs. B.!	Christ! There’s Mrs. B.!
88		line 22	his face down	his jaw down
89		line 20	limit o’ inshore drift	limit o’ drift
90		lines 31-32	a dry hair on me	a dry atom on or in me
91	Page 358	line 14	then out – walk and drink till train time	then out walk – and drink till train time
92		lines 15-16	(not included)	his hand fingering his waistcoat pocket
93		line 17	A lot o’ things	Several things
94		line 18	I haven’t quite ceased thinkin’	I aren’t quite done thinking
95		line 20	years per’aps	years p’raps
96		line 33	an’ we were makin’	as we were makin’
97	Page 359	line 19	the lamp at the end	the lamp by the arch at the end
98		line 20	tram comes	trams come
99		line 26	‘is ‘and	‘is hands
100		line 28	you know	do you know
101		lines 28-29	sure I could explain	sure if I could explain
102		line 30	the only words	the only particular words
103	Page 360	line 1	they were somewhat chronic	they were chronic
104		line 6	the ensuin’ walk	ensuin’ wet walk
105		line 7	(not included)	on board
106		line 12	warrant-officer	warrant officer
107		line 25	dropped down to me, as you could put it, visibly	down to me visibly concerned
108			Concerned
109		line 30	is what you might call the equivalent	is the equivalent
110		lines 31-33	“It’s done to annoy the Number One an’ attract attention in the Western Mornin’ Mail.Generally by a stoker. “	It’s done to attract the notice of the authorities an’ the Western Mornin’ News – generally by a stoker
111	Page 361	line 9	three p.m.	3 P.M.
112		line 12	accurately	correctly
113		line 14	same evening by train to take over	same evening to take over
114		lines 31-32	(not included)	Consume your own smoke
115	Page 362	line 6	Admiral’s side gate	Admiral’s garden-gate
116		lines 6-7	I’m not a murderer	I am not a murderer
117		lines 7-8	my lawful wife died in ‘er bed	my lawful wife died in childbed
118		lines 10-11	“Then what ‘ave you done that signifies?” I said. “In ‘Eaven’s ‘oly name, what’s the rest of it?	“The what have you done that signifies?” I said. “What’s the rest of it?”
119		line 13	the station	Simonstown station
120		line 18	shells	ammunition
121		line 23	Read it?	read it off?
122		line 29	the Sergeant	The Sergeant, unshaken
123	Page 363	line 4		went to his waistcoat pocket once more
124		line 6	in murder trials	in all the murder trials
125		line 9	searchlights	searchlight
126		line 21	Would he pass that way	Would he pass there
127		line 26	without a curve. It’s all black, boggy soil. I’ve had	without a curve. I’ve had
128	Page 365	line 12	struck dead	stone dead
129		lines 13-14		That’s what they really were, you see – charcoal
130		line 15	shift ’em	lift ’em
131		line 16	glitterin’	shinin’
132		lines 24-25	(not included)	It was so
133		lines 30-31	but I kept …. Four in the lower jaw wasn’t it? …. But since you gentlemen knew him –	and I kept …. But he was a friend of you two gentlemen, you see
134	Page 365	line 9	loved	loves

Notes

1. A few insignificant differences involving only punctuation or the use of capital or lower case initial letters have been omitted.

2. It will be seen that generally the alterations are not important. Some are evidently to strengthen or tauten the narrative, though to this Editor, it is not always apparent which is the narrative being tautened: some are purely a matter of choice; one, Item 91, ‘then out walk – and drink till train time’, is inferior to the original and is probably a printer’s error.

3. Some critics have sought a special significance in Item 116, the substitution of ‘my lawful wedded wife died in childbed‘ for ‘died in ‘er bed’. Reference to Items 59, 64, 68, 77 and 87, however, suggests that the Windsor Magazine was extremely careful to avoid offending delicately-minded readers and self-appointed guardians of public morality. ‘In childbed may well have been what Kipling originally wrote for the magazine.

4. Item 44, the omission of ”Mr.Vickery was ‘is Number One name’, should have been accompanied by an amendment to page 348, line 14. As it stands, Mr. Hooper refers to Vickery without previously having heard his name.