Category: Short Stories

Wee Willie Winkie, and Other Stories. Volume 2 (of 2)

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once cam...

Chapters

3. Part 3

‘“It’s a master-stroke o’ policy,” says Dravot. “It means running the country as easy as a four-wheeled bogie on a down grade. We can’t stop to inquire now, or they’ll turn agai...

2. Part 2

‘There was no need for the last article,’ said Carnehan, blushing modestly; ‘but it looks regular. Now you know the sort of men that loafers are—we _are_ loafers, Dan, until we...

4. Part 4

‘What was you pleased to say?’ whined Carnehan. ‘They took them without any sound. Not a little whisper all along the snow, not though the King knocked down the first man that s...

7. Part 7

The books lasted for ten days. They were eaten too quickly in long gulps of twelve hours at a time. Then came days of doing absolutely nothing, of dreaming dreams and marching i...

8. Part 8

Enter Patsie tumultuously, embarrassed by several lengths of the Commissioner’s pet _mahseer_-rod. ‘Tum along, Toby! Zere’s a _chu-chu_ lizard in ze _chick_, and I’ve told Chimo...

5. Part 5

It was Din Mahommed, the dismissed groom of the Colonel, who made the diversion, and an angry and heated discussion followed. Wee Willie Winkie, standing over Miss Allardyce, wa...

1. Part 1

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us...

9. Part 9

‘Now,’ gasped Jakin, ‘I’ll give you what-for.’ He proceeded to pound the man’s features while Lew stamped on the outlying portions of his anatomy. Chivalry is not a strong point...

10. Part 10

Thus, at every march, the hidden enemy became bolder and the regiment writhed and twisted under attacks it could not avenge. The crowning triumph was a sudden night-rush ending...

6. Part 6

He put the brown book in the cupboard where his school-books lived and accidentally tumbled out a venerable volume, without covers, labelled _Sharpe’s Magazine_. There was the m...

11. Part 11

The English were not running. They were hacking and hewing and stabbing, for though one white man is seldom physically a match for an Afghan in a sheepskin or wadded coat, yet,...