Annotation - Chapter 16, Page 189

  • (189:17) "The 3 of the 1 Littl 1 is yellerboy stoan and Saul & Peter and chard coal"

Besides the family trios already mentioned (Eusa and his sons, Punch and Pooty and the baby), and the Christian trinity which is not mentioned, Hoban finally names the physical ingredients of power that have just been rediscovered: sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal, in other words gunpowder.

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