Rewards and fairies / by Rudyard Kipling ; with illustrations by Frank Craig.

  • Rudyard Kipling
Date:
1910
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rewards and fairies / by Rudyard Kipling ; with illustrations by Frank Craig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the track left the brook and became a smear, as though a log had been dragged along. They traced it into Three Cows meadow, over the mill-sluice to the Forge, round Hobden’s garden, and then up the slope till it ran out on the short turf and fern of Pook’s Hill, and they heard the cock-pheasants crowing in the woods behind them. ‘ No use !’ said Dan, questing like a puzzled hound. ‘ The dew’s drying off, and old Hobden says otters ’ll travel for miles.’ ‘ I’m sure we’ve travelled miles.’ Una fanned herself with her hat. ‘ How still it is ! It’s going to be a regular roaster.’ She looked down the valley, where no chimney yet smoked. ‘ Hobden’s up ! ’ Dan pointed to the open door of the Forge cottage. 4 What d’you suppose he has for breakfast ? ’ ‘ One of them. He says they eat good all times of the year.’ Una jerked her head at some stately pheasants going down to the brook for a drink. A few steps farther on a fox broke almost under their bare feet, yapped, and trotted off. ‘ Ah, Mus’ Reynolds—Mus’ Reynolds ’—Dan was quoting from old Hobden,—4 if I knowed all you knowed, I’d know something.’1 ‘ I say,’ Una lowered her voice, ‘ you know that funny feeling of things having happened before. I felt it when you said “ Mus’ Reynolds.” ’ ‘ So did I,’ Dan began. ‘ What is it ? ’ They faced each other stammering with excite¬ ment. 1 See ‘The Winged Hats ’ in Puck of Pook’s Hill.
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