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Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг. Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls
Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls
Table of Contents
PREFACE
WINNING THE VICTORIA CROSS
THE WAY THAT HE TOOK
AN UNQUALIFIED PILOT
THE JUNK AND DHOW
HIS GIFT
PROLOGUE TO THE MASTER-COOK’S TALE
A FLIGHT OF FACT
“STALKY”
THE HOUR OF THE ANGEL[19]
THE BURNING OF THE “SARAH SANDS”
THE LAST LAP
THE PARABLE OF BOY JONES
A DEPARTURE
THE BOLD ’PRENTICE
THE NURSES
THE SON OF HIS FATHER
II
AN ENGLISH SCHOOL
A COUNTING-OUT SONG
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Rudyard Kipling
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But the information stayed in his mind, and, not being a student of military works, he made a plan to suit. The tall kopje on which the English had planted their helio-station commanded the more or less open plain to the northward, but did not command the five-mile belt of broken country between that and the outmost English pickets, some three miles from camp. The Boers had established themselves very comfortably among these rock-ridges and scrub-patches, and the “great war” drizzled down to long shots and longer stalking. The young bloods wanted rooineks to shoot, and said so.
“See here,” quoth the experienced Jan van Staden that evening to as many of his commando as cared to listen. “You youngsters from the Colony talk a lot. Go and turn the rooineks out of their kopjes to-night. Eh? Go and take their bayonets from them and stick them into them. Eh? You don’t go!” He laughed at the silence round the fire.
