Puck of Pook’s Hill
In Chapter 2,6 of Mistress Pat, Pat and Suzanne Kirk are rained in in an abadoned shack in North Glen. They past a ghastly night reconciling their friendship.
And yet, every night since, I’ve been watching your kitchen light and wondering what was going on in it and wishing we could drop in and fraternise. I can’t imagine you and I not being friends . . . real friends. We were made for it. Isn’t it Kipling who says, ‘There is no gift like friendship’?”
“Yes . . . Parnesius in Puck,” said Pat.
“Oh, you know Puck too? Now, why can’t we give that gift to each other?”
In Chapter 1 of Magic for Marigold, the Lesley clan gathers for Old Grandmother’s birthday. Old Grandmother, the matriarch of the Lesley family, is described:
Old Grandmother was a gnomish dame of ninety-two who meant to live to be a hundred. A tiny, shrunken, wrinkled thing with flashing black eyes. There was a Puckish hint of malice in most things she said or did.
Puck of Pook’s Hill is a children’s story by Rudyard Kipling, featuring the fairy Puck whom the children Dan and Una discover one day, and who comes to tell them stories about the history of south-east England.
Puck of Pook’s Hill
Rudyard Kipling
Puck is a fairy on Puck of Pook’s Hill. This book can be read online at Project Gutenberg.
