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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