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Puck of Pook's Hill
An illustration from the story "Dymchurch Flit" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'I know what sort o' man you be,' old Hobden grunted, groping for the potatoes".

The book consists of a number of stories, all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself.

See another illustrationIllustrator: Harold Robert Millar; restoration: Adam Cuerden