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... Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rain, the trace Of mound and ditch and wall? O that was a Legion’s camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul! 5 Rudyard Kipling And see you marks t... ...eam banks, overgrown with willow, hazel, and guelder-rose, made convenient places to wait in till your 6 Puck of Pook’s Hill turn came; and a grown-u... ...their temples fell in, and the Old Things had to scuttle out and pick up a living as they could. Some of them took to hang- ing about trees, and hidin... ...her. There was only one Old Thing, I remember, who honestly worked for his living after he came down in the world. He was called Weland, and he was a ... ...at William died. Then Robert of Normandy, mad, as De Aquila said, at twice missing of this kingdom, had sent an army against England, which army had b... ...ept in the village where they were born, Where such as knew them boys from birth Nature-ally hold ‘em in scorn. When Prophets are naughty and young an... ...n’t deceive your Bees, Your Bees will not deceive you. Marriage, birth or buryin’, News across the seas, All you’re sad or merry in, 131 Ru...