Rewards and Fairies - Penn State University

Rudyard Kipling
‘“But here’s our ship all ready and swept,” I says.
the birch scrub wiping his forehead.
‘“Swep’ an’ garnished,” says Frankie. “I’m going to fill her ‘We’ve got the stick to rights now! She’ve been a whole
with devils in the likeness o’ pitch and sulphur. We must shift hatful o’ trouble. You come an’ ride her home, Mus’ Dan and
the Dons round Dunkirk comer, and if shot can’t do it, we’ll Miss Una!’
send down fireships.”
They found the proud wood-gang at the foot of the slope,
‘“I’ve given him my share of the Antony,” says my Aunt. with the log double-chained on the tug.
“What do you reckon to do about yours?”
‘Cattiwow, what are you going to do with it?’said Dan, as
‘“She offered it,” said Frankie, laughing.
they straddled the thin part.
‘“She wouldn’t have if I’d overheard her,” I says; “because I’d ‘She’s going down to Rye to make a keel for a Lowestoft
have offered my share first.” Then I told him how the Antony’s fishin’-boat, I’ve heard. Hold tight!’
sails was best trimmed to drive before the wind, and seeing he Cattiwow cracked his whip, and the great log dipped and
was full of occupations we went acrost to that Bridport hoy, tilted, and leaned and dipped again, exactly like a stately ship
and left him.
upon the high seas.
‘But Frankie was gentle-born, d’ye see, and that sort they
never overlook any folks’ dues.
‘When the hoy passed under his stern, he stood bare-headed
on the poop same as if my Aunt had been his Queen, and his
musicianers played “Mary Ambree” on their silver trumpets
quite a long while. Heart alive, little maid! I never meaned to
make you look sorrowful!”
Bunny Lewknor in his sackcloth petticoats burst through
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