Template:POTD/2013-12-30

Picture of the day
Puck of Pook's Hill
An illustration from the story "A Centurion of the Thirtieth" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'You put the bullet into that loop'".

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

This image was chosen at random from a selection of 20. (view another image)