Rewards and Fairies - Penn State University

Rudyard Kipling
for maintaining the mummeries of the falsely-called Church, ‘Come on! We must get those two twins’ names,’ said Una,
which, I’ll prove to you, are founded merely on ancient and they charged uphill shouting over the hedge, till Nurse
fables—’
slowed up and told them. When they returned, old
‘Stick to your herbs and planets,’ said Puck, laughing. ‘You Middenboro had got out of his stall, and they spent a lively
should have told the magistrates, Nick, and had Jack fined. ten minutes chasing him in again by starlight.
Again, why did you neglect your plain duty?’
‘Because—because I was kneeling, and praying, and weeping
with the rest of ‘em at the Altar-rails. In medicine this is
called the Hysterical Passion. It may be—it may be.’
‘That’s as may be,’ said Puck. They heard him turn the hay.
‘Why, your hay is half hedge-brishings,’ he said. ‘You don’t
expect a horse to thrive on oak and ash and thorn leaves, do
you?’
Ping-ping-ping went the bicycle bell round the corner. Nurse
was coming back from the mill.
‘Is it all right?’ Una called.
‘All quite right,’ Nurse called back. ‘They’re to be christened
next Sunday.’
‘What? What?’ They both leaned forward across the halfdoor.
it could not have been properly fastened, for it opened,
and tilted them out with hay and leaves sticking all over them.
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