Dick Callum is a young astronomer, scientist, naturalist and master of the Scarab. Dick and his sister Dorothea Callum are often mentioned as a pair, the Ds. When the D's meet the Swallows and Amazons, Nancy asks .... but what are you, in real life I mean, Dorothea promptly says Dick's an astronomer (WH3). He is A smallish boy with large black-rimmed spectacles (BS9). At various times Dick was nervously cleaning his spectacles (BS10,14). Dorothea says that both of them can swim and Dick got first prize at school for men under twelve. Dick says Boys, but everyone had understood (CC9).
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| - Dick Callum is a young astronomer, scientist, naturalist and master of the Scarab. Dick and his sister Dorothea Callum are often mentioned as a pair, the Ds. When the D's meet the Swallows and Amazons, Nancy asks .... but what are you, in real life I mean, Dorothea promptly says Dick's an astronomer (WH3). He is A smallish boy with large black-rimmed spectacles (BS9). At various times Dick was nervously cleaning his spectacles (BS10,14). Dorothea says that both of them can swim and Dick got first prize at school for men under twelve. Dick says Boys, but everyone had understood (CC9).
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- school somewhere in the Midlands
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| - Callum family
- Scotland Yard
- Titmouse
- North Polar Expedition
- SADMC
- Dixon's Farm
- Great Northern Divers
- Picts
Scarab
Sea Bear
- Teasel
- The Coot Club
- The Ds
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| - Able Seaman of Teasel
- Scientist to SADMC
- Ship's Naturalist of Sea Bear
- captain of Scarab
- commander of Dixon's Farm sled
- detective, forensic scientist and photographer of Scotland Yard
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| - Dick Callum is a young astronomer, scientist, naturalist and master of the Scarab. Dick and his sister Dorothea Callum are often mentioned as a pair, the Ds. When the D's meet the Swallows and Amazons, Nancy asks .... but what are you, in real life I mean, Dorothea promptly says Dick's an astronomer (WH3). He is A smallish boy with large black-rimmed spectacles (BS9). At various times Dick was nervously cleaning his spectacles (BS10,14). Dorothea says that both of them can swim and Dick got first prize at school for men under twelve. Dick says Boys, but everyone had understood (CC9). Dick attends a boarding school (near Crewe PM2) and lives in London, where his father, Professor Callum is an academic archaeologist. Dick is socially awkward and often fails to follow others' conversation: "Sorry. I didn't hear what you were saying." (BS22). He can be preoccupied in what he is doing: when he is testing the "gold dust" he might have been alone in a world empty except for two test-tubes .... (PP33) However he is valued at times of crisis. After the tunnel collapse, just as when they found the cragfast sheep in the winter holidays, he seemed to be thinking of everything art once and know what to do. (PP24) Dick has manual skill as well as scientific knowledge: he is able to carve wooden cleats for the sledge built for the Ds by Mr Dixon (WH13). He is also able to build the pigeon-activated alarm at Beckfoot (PP6). He develops photographs (BS31). In Dick's pocket book he notes birds he has seen and things he wants to remember, e.g. the Morse and Semaphore codes and his mother’s birthday.
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