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  PUCK OF POOK'S HILL

  BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING

  PUCK OF POOK'S HILL THEY TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES THE FIVE NATIONS THE JUST SO SONG BOOK JUST SO STORIES KIM STALKY & CO. THE DAY'S WORK THE BRUSHWOOD BOY FROM SEA TO SEA DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS THE LIGHT THAT FAILED LIFE'S HANDICAP: BEING STORIES OF MINE OWN PEOPLE UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW, AND WEE WILLIE WINKIE SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS, AND IN BLACK AND WHITE SOLDIER STORIES THE KIPLING BIRTHDAY BOOK (WITH WOLCOTT BALESTIER) THE NAULAHKA

  '"Go!" she says. "Go with my Leave an' Goodwill."' _See page 247_]

  Puck of Pook's Hill

  By Rudyard Kipling

  _Illustrated by_Arthur Rackham, A.R.W.S.

  NEW YORKDOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY1906

  Copyright, 1905, 1906, by RUDYARD KIPLING Published, October, 1906

  _All rights reserved,_ _including that of translation into foreign languages,_ _including the Scandinavian_

  ROBIN GOODFELLOW--HIS FRIENDS

  By RUDYARD KIPLING

  I. A Centurion of the Thirtieth. II. On the Great Wall. III. The Winged Hats. IV. Hal o' the Draft. V. Dymchurch Flit. VI. The Treasure and the Law.

  Copyright, 1906, by RUDYARD KIPLING.

  CONTENTS

  PAGE_Puck's Song_ 1Weland's Sword 5_A Tree Song_ 29Young Men at the Manor 33_Sir Richard's Song_ 55_Harp Song of the Dane Women_ 59The Knights of the Joyous Venture 61_Thorkild's Song_ 87Old Men at Pevensey 91_The Runes on Weland's Sword_ 119A Centurion of the Thirtieth 125_A British-Roman Song_ 145On the Great Wall 149_A Song to Mithras_ 173The Winged Hats 177_A Pict Song_ 201Hal o' the Draft 207_A Smugglers' Song_ 227_The Bee Boy's Song_ 231'Dymchurch Flit' 233_A Three-Part Song_ 251_Song of the Fifth River_ 255The Treasure and the Law 257_The Children's Song_ 276

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  '"Go!" she says, "Go with my Leave an' Goodwill."' _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGEIn the very spot where Dan had stood as Puck they saw a 6small, brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared personwith a snub nose, slanting blue eyes, and a grin thatran right across his freckled face.'There's where you meet hunters, and trappers for the 152Circuses, prodding along chained bears and muzzledwolves.''Hoity-toity!' he cried. 'Here's Pride in purple 212feathers! Here's wrathy contempt and the Pomps of theFlesh!'... And he doffed his cap to the bubbling bird.

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