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.
  1. “Cold Iron,” The Delineator, Sep 1909
  2. “Gloriana,” The Delineator, Dec 1909
  3. “The Wrong Thing,” The Delineator, Nov 1909
  4. “Marklake Witches,” Rewards and Fairies, Oct 1910
  5. “The Knife and the Naked Chalk,” Harper’s, Dec 1909
  6. “Brother Square-Toes,” The Delineator, Jul 1910
  7. “‘A Priest in Spite of Himself’,” The Delineator, Aug 1910
  8. “The Conversation of St. Wilfrid,” The Delineator, Jan 1910
  9. “A Doctor of Medicine,” The Delineator, Oct 1909
  10. “Simple Simon,” The Delineator, Jun 1910
  11. “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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  1. “Rewards and Fairies” by Rudyard Kipling, in The Delineator, October 1906 to February 1910.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Rudyard Kipling