Category: Literature

Book List:

(b. Bombay, 1864). "Soldiers Three" (1888); "The Phantom Rickshaw," etc. (1888); "Plain Tales from the Hills" (1890); "Under the Deodars" (1890); "Wee Willie Winkie," etc. (1890), "Departmental Ditties" (1890); "The Light that Failed" (1890); "In Black and White" (1891); "Life's Handicap" (1891); "Letters of Marque" (1891); "The Story of the Gadsbys" (1891); "Barrack-room Ballads and other Verses" (1892); "The Naulahka" (with C. Wolcott Balestier, 1892); "Many Inventions" (1893); "The Jungle Book" (1894); "Second Jungle Book" (1895).

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

IV. Playthings of the Wind
10. Threes

I WAS a boy when I heard three red words
a thousand Frenchmen died in the streets
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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Ivan the Fool.
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1917.

Chapter II

IT was disappointing to the Stary Tchert (Old Devil) that the brothers did not quarrel over the division of the property, and that they separated peacefully; and he cried out, calling his three small devils (Tchertionki). 1

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