 This time he acted on experience, and leaving Bamboo to guard the goal in case of accidents, came through the others like a flash, head and tail low— Lutyens standing up to ease him— swept on and on before the other side knew what was the matter,...  The Day's Work - Page 282by Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 448 pages
...the stroke; but he heard the head of the stick fly off at the same time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine ponies out of a thousand would have gone tearing on...kicked the ball in after a straight scurry of a hundred and fifty yards. If there was one thing more than another upon which The Maltese Cat prided himself,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 414 pages
...stroke ; but he heard the head of the stick fly off at the same time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine ponies out of a thousand would have gone tearing on...kicked the ball in after a straight scurry of a hundred and fifty yards. If there was one thing more than another upon which The Maltese Cat prided himself,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 332 pages
...stroke ; but he heard the head of the stick fly off at the same time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine ponies out of a thousand would have gone tearing on...kicked the ball in after a straight scurry of a hundred and fifty yards. If there was one thing more than another upon which The Maltese Cat prided himself,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 342 pages
...guard the goal in case of accidents, came through the others like a flash, head and tail low—Lutyens standing up to ease him — swept on and on before...kicked the ball in after a straight scurry of a hundred and fifty yards. If there was one thing more than another upon which The Maltese Cat prided himself,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1914 - 392 pages
...had heard that very same stroke played off his own back, and had profited by the confusion it made. This time he acted on experience, and leaving Bamboo...head and tail low, Lutyens standing up to ease him — 243 swept on and on before the other side knew what was the matter, and nearly pitched on his head... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1997 - 228 pages
...had heard that very same stroke played off his own back, and had profited by the confusion it made. This time he acted on experience, and leaving Bamboo...his head between the Archangels' goalpost as Lutyens tipped the ball in after a straight scurry of a hundred and fifty yards. If there was one thing more... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 340 pages
...and he knew Powell ; and the instant he felt Powell's right leg shift a trifle on the saddle56 flap, he headed to the boundary, where a native officer...kicked the ball in after a straight scurry of a hundred and fifty yards. If there was one thing more than another upon which The Maltese Cat prided himself,... | |
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