The House with a Clock in its Walls (annotations)

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• 865

A

• Aba bēbē bachabē
• Ace of Nitwits
• Aladdin's lamp
• Albertus Magnus
• Altar boy
• American Civil War
• Artium Baccalaureus (B.A., Bachelor of Arts) (degree)
• Autumn Leaves (weaving pattern)

B

• Bamboo
• Bandanna
• Baptist
• Barlow, Bishop
• Barnavelt aunts
• Barnavelt House (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Barnavelt, Charlie
• Barnavelt, Grampa
• Barnavelt, Jonathan van Olden
• Barnavelt, Lewis
• Barnavelt, Mrs. (Lewis's mother)
• Barnavelt's Folly
• Bearded booby (insult)
• Bedroom (Lewis Barnavelt, 100 High Street)
• Beefeater
• Belgium
• Bendix washer
• Bible (book)
• Big Ben (clock)
• Big Mac
• Bishop Barlow realtors (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von
• Bon Pour Un Franc
• Bon Sour One Frank (phrase/game)
• Boy Scout knots
• Brasher doubloon (coin)
• Briggs Stadium (Detroit, Michigan)
• Brush Mush (insult)
• Bus

C

• Cagliostro, Allessandro di
• Cannon swab
• Capharnaum County (Michigan)
• Capharnaum County Fair (Michigan)
• Capharnaum County Magician’s Society (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Catholic
• Cattails
• Cemetery Hill (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Cheerios (cereal)
• Chess (game)
• Chestnut
• Chicago World's Fair (Chicago, Illinois)
• Chichen-Itza (Mexico)
• Chopsticks (song)
• Church (unidentified) (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Civil War Monument (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Civil War Monument Annex (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Clabbernong, Elihu
• Clabbernong, Jedediah
• Clark's Super One Hundred Gasoline, jingle for
• Clock (unidentified mantle)
• Clock, Chinese gong
• Clock, coffin-shaped
• Clock, Doomsday
• Clock, Grandfather
• Clock, Waterbury eight-day
• Cloud Formations and Other Phenomena Observed From This Window (manuscript)
• Coat rack, enchanted (Barnavelt House)
• Coca-Cola (beverage)
• Coin (unamed, silver)
• Coin (unnamed, copper)
• Coin, Arabian
• Coin, Roman
• Cookies, chocolate chip
• Corrigan, Mr.
• Corrigan, Mrs.
• Corrigan, Tarby
• Corrigan’s Hardware (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Crown (coin)
• Cunard Line
• Cuticura soap, jingle for

D

• Day of Judgement
• Death-watch beetles
• Dee, John
• Demi-culverin (cannon)
• Detention Home (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
• Detroit Tigers (baseball team)
• Didrachmas (coin)
• Doctor Magicorum Artium (D. Mag.A.) (degree)
• Doll Face (insult)
• Drachmas (coin)
• Dreams (Lewis Barnavelt)
• Dress, purple (Florence Zimmermann)
• Ducats (coin)
• Durgy's Pond (New Zebedee, Michigan)

E

• Easter Egg (enchanted object)
• Eight Ball (fortune-telling device)
• Elizabeth I, Queen of England
• End of the World
• England

F

• Falconet (cannon)
• False front (architecture)
• Fat ears (insult)
• Fatso (insult)
• Fidgeting
• Fifth Michigan Fire Zouave Lancers
• Five-card draw (game)
• Flies and grounders (game)
• Florins (coin)
• Fondrighter, Jerold
• Fondrighter, Mrs.
• Frizzy Wig (insult)
• From a Wigwam (song)
• Frumpy (insult)
• Fusebox Dwarf

G

• Galleon (ship)
• Geez (language)
• Geiger counter
• Glue
• Göttingen, Germany
• Greenwich Mean Time
• Grouchy, Emmanuel, marquis de
• Guilders (coin)

H

• Hag Face (insult)
• Hammerhandle (bum)
• Hanchett family
• Hanchett House (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Hand of Glory
• Hardesty's Universal Omnium Gatherum: Perpertual Calendar, Date Book, Almanac, and Book of Days (book)
• Harpoon
• Heemsoth’s Rexall Drug Store (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• High Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• High Street, 100 (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• History of the World (book)
• Holabaugh, Carl
• Hollister, Maxine
• Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character)
• Holyrood Palace (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Hookah

I

• Insults, Barnavelt and Zimmermann
• Izard, Isaac
• Izard, Selenna

J

• John Deere tractor
• John o'Groats, Scotland
• Johnny's Nightshirt (card game)
• Judica me Deus

K

• Kell, George
• Kelly, Michael

L

• Laberdeen, Carol Kay
• London, England

M

• Mail Pouch (tobacco)
• Mailbox (High Street, New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Main Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Mansion Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Marble
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Mattie, Aunt
• Mayan step pyramid
• Medina-Sidonia, Duke of
• Mexican silver dollar
• Michigan Agricultural College (East Lansing, Michigan)
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Minion (cannon)
• Mint, Chococlate-covered
• Moon (Luna)
• Moth
• Mounds bar
• Mount Everest
• Muggins Simoon (automobile)
• Musket

N

• Napoleon at St. Helena (solitaire card game)
• Napoleon I of France
• Narrow Seas (English Channel)
• Necromancy (book)
• New Zebedee Chronicle (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• New Zebedee County Courthouse (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• New Zebedee Fountain (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• New Zebedee Opera House (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• New Zebedee school (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• New Zebedee Waterworks (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• New Zebedee, Michigan

O

• Oakridge Cemetery (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Odilon, Bertrand-Jean Redon
• Old Spice talcum powder
• O'Meagher, Mrs.
• Once to Every Man and Nation (hymn)
• Osee Five Hills, Michigan
• Ouija board

P

• Palomar Observatory, Mt. (San Diego County, California)
• Pancakes
• Pants, corduroy
• Parade rest
• Penny (British coin)
• Peppermint patty
• Pipe (Jonathan Barnavelt)
• Pipe cleaner
• Plum
• Poker
• Pomp and Circumstance (song)
• Pottinger, Rose Rita
• Pruny (insult)
• Purple objects (Florence Zimmermann)

Q

• Quare tristis es anima mea, et quare conturbas me?
• Queen of spades
• Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea: quare me repulisti, et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?

R

• Reflector
• Regiomontanus (astrologer)
• Ridpath, John Clark
• Rizzio, David
• Rug, hooked
• Rugbug (dance)

S

• Saker (cannon)
• Salada (tea)
• Sausage
• Scotland
• Shekels (coin)
• Shilling (coin)
• Sin-and-Flesh Creek (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Spanish Armada
• Spit-out-the-Window (card game)
• Spruce Street (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Stars and Stripes Forever (song)
• Statue of Liberty (football play)
• Stoddard, John L.
• Stoddard's Lectures (book)
• Super Suds (soap), jingle for
• Sword

T

• Tablet, writing (five-cent)
• Tea, iced
• Ten Commandments
• Terminus Movers, Inc. (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Texaco (cat)
• Ticonderoga No.2 pencil
• Toy soldiers
• Trousers, khaki
• Turkoman's Terror (tabacco)
• Turret
• Twelve Mile Road (Capharnaum County, Michigan)

U

• U.S. Highway 9
• University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany)

V

• Victoria, Queen
• Vicy versy (phrase)
• Viewmaster

W

• Walpurgis (April 30)
• Watch, gold (Jonathan Barnavelt)
• Waterloo, Battle of
• Watson, John H. (fictional character)
• Weird Beard (insult)
• Welch's fudge bar
• Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington
• Wellington
• Westclox clock
• WGN-AM, Chicago (radio station)
• Wilder Creek (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
• Wilder Creek Bridge (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
• Wilder Creek Park (New Zebedee, Michigan)
• Wilder Creek Road (Capharnaum County, Michigan)
• Wildroot Cream Oil
• Willoware porcelain umbrella stand
• Willoware porcelain vase
• Window, enchanted stained-glass (Barnavelt House)
• Window, stained-glass
• World War II

X

• X-ray

Z

• Zimmermann, Florence Helene
• Z-lady (phrase)