Rewards and Fairies is the second Kipling collection of stories about the elf Puck and
the people he magicked from the past to tell tales of history to the young twins, Dan and
Una. The book appeared in 1910, but the stories themselves began in the September 1909 issue
of
The Delineator and the time travelin’ commenced with the arrival of the
17th-century astrologer/herbalist/plague-curer Nicholas Culpeper. The online scans of
The
Delineator are almost as much fun to read for the Ivory Soap ads as they are for
Kipling.
- “Cold Iron,” The Delineator, Sep
1909
- “Gloriana,” The Delineator, Dec 1909
- “The Wrong Thing,”
The Delineator, Nov 1909
- “Marklake Witches,” Rewards and Fairies,
Oct 1910
- “The Knife and the Naked Chalk,” Harper’s, Dec
1909
- “Brother Square-Toes,” The Delineator, Jul 1910
- “‘A
Priest in Spite of Himself’,” The Delineator, Aug 1910
- “The Conversation
of St. Wilfrid,” The Delineator, Jan 1910
- “A Doctor of Medicine,” The
Delineator, Oct 1909
- “Simple Simon,” The Delineator, Jun
1910
- “The Tree of Justice,” The Delineator, Feb 1910
— Michael Main
‘Ah—well! There have been worse men than Nick Culpeper to take lessons from. Now,
where can we sit that’s not indoors?’
‘In the hay-mow, next to old Middenboro,’
Dan suggested. ‘He doesn’t mind.’
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