Actions and Reactions

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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Actions and Reactions

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Authors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Date of publication: 1909

Type: Text

Language(s): English

OTA identifier: ota:3012

Collection(s): OTA Core Collection

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Actions and Reactions
by Rudyard Kipling
Macmillan and Co., Limited St Martin's Street, London
1909
An Habitation Enforced
The Recall
Garm—a Hostage
The Power of the Dog
The Mother Hive
The Bees and the Flies
With the Night Mail
The Four Angels
A Deal in Cotton
The New Knighthood
The Puzzler
The Puzzler
Little Foxes
Gallio’s Song
The House Surgeon
The Rabbi’s Song
An Habitation Enforced
My friend, if cause doth wrest thee,
Ere folly hath much oppressed thee,
Far from acquaintance kest thee
Where country may digest thee . . .
Thank God that so hath blessed thee,
And sit down, Robin, and rest thee.
Thomas Tusser
IT CAME without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care h . . .