Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

An officer and a gentleman."

The books lasted for ten days. They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time. Then came days of doing absolutely nothing, of dreaming dreams and marching imaginary armies up and down stairs, of counting the number of banisters, and of measuring the length and breadth of every room in handspans—fifty down the side, thirty across, and fifty back again

Bid Earth be good beneath and Heaven above her