"The Mound", Chapter 2, by H. P. Lovecraft, for Zealia Bishop

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Throughout all these stories, even though there is the occasional use of a distinctly British, as opposed to American, term, like 'electric torch' instead of 'flashlight', it never occurred to me to look up 'mould' until this story, despite seeing it in many other stories and kind of scratching my head at what it could have meant in the contexts used. Turns out there is a British usage that we don't really have in the US, at least not that I've ever heard, of 'soft loose earth'. That makes a lot more sense than the furry fungal growth!

But knickerbockers... oh boy! Do the Brits still use that word? I know the New York Knicks are named after that word, and the shortened form of knickers may get occasional use, but I've never heard anybody use the full word outside of historical talk about the NBA team.

You'll have to pardon my Spanish - I never learned the language, so I probably got a fair bit wrong. Also, bear in mind, being in the USA, and growing up in NJ where there were Hispanics enough, whatever Spanish I did hear is New World Spanish. Even though the text given should be spoken in the style of Old World Spanish, that is going to be completely beyond me. To the extent I can muster any Spanish at all, it is unavoidably going to be the New World variety I grew up hearing.

The picture used is a photo of an Indian burial mound in Saint Paul, taken by Runner1928, and used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en).

There are plenty of pics of burial mounds, but few that are overgrown like this. Most of them seem to be pretty well maintained, which I guess is good, but doesn't properly evoke the setting described in this story.

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