Many thanks to Hazelhunter on my forum, who did all the work in this section, and thanks too to Fidra Books for letting us use sections of the text of Jill Has Two Ponies.

 

The alterations are relatively minor, and are mostly small changes to update the text; so references to landgirls are removed, and Lavender’s Blue is replaced with Thank U Very Much (though both are probably now equally impenetrable to today’s child reader).  The most interesting alterations are the removal of the reference to Jill’s mother buying cigarettes, and the reduction in age of the Fisher twins from 12 to 10.

 

Jill’s mother’s cigarette buying at the station is replaced with a more innocuous (though characteristic:  Jill was notably keen on her food) statement about railway refreshments.

 

The age of the Fisher children, whom Jill teaches, is reduced from 12 to 10, which could be because of the difference in how  children’s behaviour was perceived in the 1950s and the 1980s, or because Ruby Ferguson’s 12 year olds were never particularly realistic.  It’s an interesting point.

 

In the section below, the first page number is the first edition and the second number corresponds to the paperback.  This list isn’t necessarily definitive:  we’ve tried to be as careful as possible, but can make no guarantee about the accuracy or completeness.

 

General notes:

•  Quotation marks are double in the first edition, single in the paperback

•  Words such as 'realised' and 'sympathised' have been spelt with a 'z' e.g. 'realized' 'sympathized'

•  Chapter headings in the paperback have been de-capitalised

•  The dedication 'For Priscilla' has been deleted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JILL HAS TWO PONIES

 

 

I Meet Rapide

•  P9/7 Forty pounds becomes sixty pounds

•  P14/17 Reference to ‘Land Girlish’ mode of dressing removed

•  Kirbigrip becomes Grip

•  P17/15 ‘pulling a cross old lady along the front at Eastbourne in a beastly little chair’ has been changed to: ‘pulling a miserable old rag and bones man’s cart’

•  P18/16 Forty pounds becomes sixty pounds

•  P18/17 “Lavender Blue” becomes "Thank U Very Much"

•  P19/17 “Oh no but thank you very much” changed to: “Oh no, but it is very kind of you to ask us”

 

 

Oh, why did I buy him?

•   P20/18 REMOVED DIALOGUE:

 

‘Mummy said to the girl at the counter,

“Have you got any cigarettes please?” but she just said coldly “No cigarettes,” though about five minutes later a young man came in

and I saw her give him a packet of Players’ from under the counter’

 

REPLACED DIALOGUE:

 

‘The sandwiches were not very interesting and the tea tasted stewed, so I left most of my ‘refreshments’. Mummy looked at the remains on my plate and frowned, and I could see that she was wondering about my apparent lack of appetite’.

 

•  P21/19 “The Horseman” replaced with “Horse and Hound” (and subsequent references)

 

REMOVED DIALOGUE

 

…” ‘The Horseman’, which is a paper you can never buy on the bookstalls but have to order, and I simply can’t afford the one-and-

three a week”.

 

 

REPLACED DIALOGUE:

 

…” ‘Horse and Hound’ which is a paper you have to order and I simply can’t afford it”.

 

•  P28/25 “I couldn’t tell about Saturday, even to my school friend” has been deleted

•  P29/26 “when he was in the R.A.F. in the war” replaced with: “in an accident”

 

 

Rapide is Here

•  P36/33 soul-less to soulless

•  P38/35 “twenty-ton tank” to “ton of bricks”

 

 

Some People will do Anything!
•  41/37 “pulling the ends of my plaits” to “nursing my knee”

•  50/47 A STABLE FOR JILL becomes A Stable for Jill

 

 

That Pony Again
•  51/48 Richmond Horse Show replaced with: Royal International Horse Show

•  52/49 soul-less to soulless

•  53/49 “in a sort of a tramshed” replaced with: “in a large, empty hall”

 

 

The Day of the Meet

•  62/59 type-written becomes hand-written

•  RIDINGS becomes RIDING’S

•  65/62 “The Raggle Taggle Gypsies” becomes “Oh What A Beautiful Morning”

•  67/64 “The Tatler” changed to: “The Queen”

 

 

Just Ducks

•  84/80 soul-less to soulless

 

 

Our Christmas

•  90/86 Phrase: “And you can see the completed result. Isn’t it super?” has been deleted

•  93/88 soul-less to soulless

•  96/92 “As books often say” has been deleted

•  99/95 Olympia becomes Wembley

 

 

Running the Riding School

•  100/96 The age of the Fisher twins has been reduced from twelve to ten

•  103/100 “in a very jerky way” replaced with: “jerkily”

•  107/105 “By now I began to have a great admiration for Wendy” replaced with: “By now I had begun to admire Wendy”

•  “……talking to Joey.” Has been removed

•  109/107 Olympia replaced with Hickstead

•  111/109 Olympia replaced with Hickstead

 

 

The Three Fats

•  114/112 ‘the fifteen shillings’ replaced with: ‘the money for their lesson’

 

 

Trouble at Ring Hill

•  126/124 mack becomes mac

•  134/132 Olympia replaced with Hickstead

 

 

A Great Day for All

•  137/136 Olympia replaced with Wembley

 

 

The Hunter Trials

•  146/145 mack becomes mac

•  152/151 ‘A beautiful clear round’ changed to: ‘A clear round’

•  160/160 THE END has been deleted

 

 

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FIRST EDITION (Caney)

Pg.10 Mrs Crewe and Jill being shown Rapide by Mrs Penberthy.

 

Pg.17 Jill on Rapide who is refusing a jump.

 

Pg.22 Jill walking with open arms to meet Black Boy.

 

Pg.23 Jill hugging Black Boy’s neck.

 

Pg.26 Jill cantering Black Boy.

 

Pg.30 Jill talking to Martin in the dining room.

 

Pg. 34 Jill holding Rapide who is drinking from a bucket being watched by the Porter and the Clerk.

 

Pg. 37 Jill, Mrs Crewe and ‘the man’ with Winken, Blinken and Nod.

 

Pg. 42 Jill on Rapide talking to Mrs Darcy who is leaning on a gate

 

Pg. 46 Jill with Rapide in the stall who is shying into Mrs Darcy.

 

Pg. 52 Jill riding her bicycle to Mrs Darcy’s.

 

Pg. 68 Jill and Ann following the hunt.

 

Pg. 71 Jill and Ann digging out Ranter with a fork while Black Boy and George watch.

 

Pg. 72 Jill leading Ranter whilst riding Black Boy with Ann riding George.

 

Pg. 86 Jill and Diana on Black Boy and Sylvia after the ducks.

 

Pg. 90 Black Boy and Rapide looking over the half doors of the new loose boxes. (This is supposedly drawn by Jill herself and helped by ‘The Artist’)

 

Pg. 116. Jill, James, Diana, Wendy and ? looking at The Horse and Hound.

 

Pg. 117 Jill (or Wendy?) and James sitting on the hurdle watching April, May, and June on the ponies.

 

Pg. 123 Jill, Wendy and Ruth watch James jump Blue Smoke over the hedge.

 

Pg. 128 Blue Smoke lieng in the stable, nursed by Wendy with Jill arriving.

 

Pg. 135 Captain Cholly-Sawcutt and Mr Vale standing in the doorway watching Jill holding a bucket.

 

Pg. 139 Captain Cholly-Sawcutt sitting on Petronelle signing autographs for Jill and four others.

 

Pg. 151 Jill jumping Rapide over a gorse fence.

 

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN 1989 KNIGHT EDITION (Dunlop)

 

 

Pg. 15 Jill on Rapide’s neck, crashing through a jump and being watched by her Mother and Mrs Penberthy

 

Pg. 27 Jill on a piebald Blackboy looking in through the window at Martin

 

Pg. 45 Ann doing the dirt track swerve on her bicycle with Jill on her bicycle and the old lady on the footpath

 

Pg. 58 Jill watching Rapide eat in the stable

 

Pg. 65 The Master about to raise his hat to Jill and Ann in front of The Grinning Mouse.

 

Pg. 82 Jill and Diana on the horses after the ducks

 

Pg. 97 Mrs Fisher in front of George and Georgina on their ponies

 

Pg. 106 Jill talking to Tom Vale

 

Pg. 115 Jill sitting on the hurdle talking to James who is watching April, May and June on the ponies

 

Pg. 133 Captain Cholly-Sawcutt and Mr Vale standing in the doorway watching Jill holding a bucket.

 

Pg. 156/157 Jill on Rapide heading for a gorse fence being watched by Martin, Catherine, Captain Cholly-Sawcutt, and others.  A horsebox is being loaded in the background.

 

 

Jill’s Gymkhana