tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21724748.post114001813683858111..comments2023-09-26T15:14:50.352+01:00Comments on Conservative Party Reptile: Mind like a box-roomTim Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705980028580424584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21724748.post-37739229743788627892016-03-03T19:33:34.027+00:002016-03-03T19:33:34.027+00:00"On no condition, is extradition,
Allowed in ..."On no condition, is extradition,<br />Allowed in Callao." These same lines occur in "The Opal Serpent", an old novel available on Project Gutenberg. I have encountered it at least twice before in adventure novels of the same period within this very month, and 'third time pays for all' so I determined to track it down. It seems it was so well known a song at the time that no author needed...or cared...to quote it in full. Ah well, I shall persevere.<br />Bard Judithhttp://graphictional.weebly.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21724748.post-1140260139385632922006-02-18T10:55:00.000+00:002006-02-18T10:55:00.000+00:00OK, sorry, I see what you're getting at now.Wodeho...OK, sorry, I see what you're getting at now.<BR/><BR/>Wodehouse's The Gold Bat was published in 1904. The Wrecker, by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, was published in 1892. Chapter 18 of The Wrecker has the words:<BR/><BR/>"On no condition is extradition Allowed in Callao!"<BR/><BR/>http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/adventure/TheWrecker/chap18.html<BR/><BR/>As in The Gold Bat, this appears to be a quotation.<BR/><BR/>The quotation also appears in W.B. Churchward's Blackbirding In The South Pacific (1888):<BR/><BR/>'I did not know then the Callao hymn, of which the chorus is - "On no condition is extradition allowed in Callao," - and was afraid that the police might nab me and send me back so I got away as far as I could into the country till the vessel left.'<BR/><BR/>http://www.janeresture.com/tuvalu2/blackbirders.htm<BR/><BR/>Stephenson and Osbourne's The Ebb Tide (1894) contains another phrase that is almost exactly replicated in The Gold Bat:<BR/><BR/>'...Callao?' <BR/>'There's no extradition there,'<BR/><BR/>It’s perhaps not unlikely that Wodehouse had read Stevenson. From chapter 7 of The Gold Bat:<BR/><BR/>"What on earth do you mean?" inquired Barry.<BR/>"I was trying to make an A.B. case of it," explained Shoeblossom.<BR/>"What's an A.B. case?"<BR/>"I don't know," admitted Shoeblossom, frankly. "But it comes in a book of Stevenson's. I think it must mean a sort of case where you call everyone A. and B. and don't tell their names."<BR/><BR/>This may refer to Stevenson and Osbournes's The Wrong Box (1892) where we have:<BR/><BR/>"Indeed, the problem is really entertaining; it is one I have long contemplated in the light of an A. B. case..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21724748.post-1140199814855353452006-02-17T18:10:00.000+00:002006-02-17T18:10:00.000+00:00Yes - but where does Wodehouse get it from? It lo...Yes - but where does Wodehouse get it from? It looks like a quotation in the book...Tim Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03705980028580424584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21724748.post-1140191986263189212006-02-17T15:59:00.000+00:002006-02-17T15:59:00.000+00:00Could it be from the end of chapter 7?Googling "on...Could it be from the end of chapter 7?<BR/><BR/>Googling "on no petition is extradition" (quotes inlcuded) returns:<BR/><BR/>http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.1/bookid.3067/sec.7/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com