Wee Willie Winkie, and other stories

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Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг. Wee Willie Winkie, and other stories

Wee Willie Winkie, and other stories

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Wee Willie Winkie

BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP

HIS MAJESTY THE KING

THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT

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Rudyard Kipling

Published by Good Press, 2020

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​The devastating track of the pony's feet was the last misdeed that cut him off from all sympathy of Humanity. He tinned into the road, leaned forward, and rode as fast as the pony could put foot to the ground in the direction of the river.

But the liveliest of twelve-two ponies can do little against the long canter of a Waler. Miss Allardyce was far ahead, had passed through the crops, beyond the Police-post, when all the guards were asleep, and her mount was scattering the pebbles of the river bed as Wee Willie Winkie left the cantonment and British India behind him. Bowed forward and still Hogging, Wee Willie shot into Afghan territory, and could just see Miss Allardyce, a black speck, flickering across the stony plain. The reason of her wandering was simple enough. Coppy, in a tone of too hastily-assumed authority, had told her overnight that she must not ride out by the river. And she had gone to prove her own spirit and teach Coppy a lesson.

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