User:Equinox/November Joe

In late 2021 I read 's November Joe: Detective of the Woods (1913), which I assume must be out of copyright (the author died in 1922), but despite having a print copy I can't find the text online anywhere.

Until I have a copy I can easily search with a computer, here is the list of words and phrases I noted down as cite-worthy. Some might be Canadian woodsman dialect.


 * blackmail meaning the amount of money paid, not the demand for it
 * cookee ("cook and the cookee" thus not the same as a cook)
 * down ("had a down on me" i.e. dislike, enmity)
 * dropped to the game = got wise to it, "cottoned on"
 * hanker and necker for h~chief and n~chief
 * lie-by
 * lunk
 * monkey = mess around? ("if you monkey, it will...")
 * Phèdre, French Canadian female name
 * Queen Mab pudding (possibly also Queen Mab's pudding)
 * reduce, noun: a reduction in price ("make a reduce")
 * screw = pay, wages? ("week's screw")
 * shsh (hushing noise)
 * shut it
 * sport, noun (apparently a sportsman, a hunter?)
 * time, one's pay for a period of work ("got our time")
 * turkey ("he had only his turkey": travelling bag or some such)
 * white ("was a white man": not skin colour, but fine and upstanding)