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... Stalky and Co. Kipling talks of Stalky , his boyhood friend and fictional hero , in military terms : ' For executive capacity , the organization of raids , reprisals , and retreats , we depended on Stalky , our Commander in Chief , and ...
... Stalky and Co. Kipling talks of Stalky , his boyhood friend and fictional hero , in military terms : ' For executive capacity , the organization of raids , reprisals , and retreats , we depended on Stalky , our Commander in Chief , and ...
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... Stalky and Beetle and M'Turk , ' . . . spun wildly on their heels , jodelling after the accepted manner of a " gloat ... Stalky , for instance ; and yet Stalky is a real rebel - Kipling once described Stalky's real - life model as ...
... Stalky and Beetle and M'Turk , ' . . . spun wildly on their heels , jodelling after the accepted manner of a " gloat ... Stalky , for instance ; and yet Stalky is a real rebel - Kipling once described Stalky's real - life model as ...
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... Stalky's exploits there , where he has ' become a Sikh ' , but where he behaves exactly as he did at school , and is again in trouble with the authori- ties . ( And in fact the real - life ' Stalky's ' career , as Major- General ...
... Stalky's exploits there , where he has ' become a Sikh ' , but where he behaves exactly as he did at school , and is again in trouble with the authori- ties . ( And in fact the real - life ' Stalky's ' career , as Major- General ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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