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Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
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we were all dropping back again into ordinary men and women and
that the "Great Pop Picnic" was a thing altogether apart and out of
the world--never to happen again. It had gone with the dust-storm
and the tingle in the hot air.

I felt tired and limp, and a good deal ashamed of myself as I went
in for a bath and some sleep.

There is a woman's version of this story, but it will never be
written . . . . unless Maud Copleigh cares to try.



THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES.


Thus, for a season, they fought it fair--
She and his cousin May--
Tactful, talented, debonnaire,
Decorous foes were they;
But never can battle of man compare
With merciless feminine fray.

Two and One.


Mrs. Hauksbee was sometimes nice to her own sex. Here is a story
to prove this; and you can believe just as much as ever you please.

Pluffles was a subaltern in the "Unmentionables." He was callow,
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