General:
"KO for Nancy" = "KO" is a
way of saying 'knock out' or, to put it another
way, a big hit. A big hit for Nancy Sinatra was
"These Boots are Made for Walking".
This place is Wellington. The boys are also wearing
wellingtons. The train is number 70014 - The Iron
Duke - or Duke of Wellington. The plant is Ladies
Slipper - the only plant I could find that referred
to footwear. The whistle simply illustrates a
reference in the text to hearing a steam whistle.
The iron is again an illustration for the Iron
Duke and the knitting wood and scarf refer to
the fact that Wellington was a major wool town.
The bats are there just because they are there
but the fox refers to a family called Fox who
paternally ran the town's main business. One of
the houses in the town used to be the Squirrel
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Key:
The roman numeral here is XVII (17). The time
is shown on the front of the train and is 3 o'clock
(the newspaper here is the morning one). The 3rd
word on the page is "at" which should
be put into position 17 in the "key"
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