A Diversity of Creatures

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Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures

PREFACE

As Easy as A.B.C

MACDONOUGH'S SONG

Friendly Brook

THE LAND

In the Same Boat

'HELEN ALL ALONE'

The Honours of War

THE CHILDREN

The Dog Hervey

THE COMFORTERS

The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat

THE PRESS

In The Presence

JOBSON'S AMEN

REGULUS

A TRANSLATION

The Edge of the Evening

REBIRTH

The Horse Marines

THE LEGEND OF MIRTH

'My Son's Wife'

THE FLOODS

THE FABULISTS

The Vortex

THE SONG OF SEVEN CITIES

'Swept and Garnished'

Mary Postgate

THE BEGINNINGS

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Isn't it almost time that our Planet took some interest in the proceedings of the Aërial Board of Control? One knows that easy communications nowadays, and lack of privacy in the past, have killed all curiosity among mankind, but as the Board's Official Reporter I am bound to tell my tale.

At 9.30 A.M., August 26, A.D. 2065, the Board, sitting in London, was informed by De Forest that the District of Northern Illinois had riotously cut itself out of all systems and would remain disconnected till the Board should take over and administer it direct.

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'How d'you mean?' I ventured to ask.

'If you've ever been ground-circuited,' said the Mayor, 'you'll know it don't improve any man's temper to be held up straining against nothing. No, sir! Eight or nine hundred folk kept pawing and buzzing like flies in treacle for two hours, while a pack of perfectly safe Serviles invades their mental and spiritual privacy, may be amusing to watch, but they are not pleasant to handle afterwards.'

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