An illustration from the story "Hal o' the Draft" from the first printing of Rudyard Kipling's 1906 fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill, featuring the legend "'I reckon you'll find her middlin' heavy,' he says".
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.
Illustrator: Harold Robert Millar; restoration: Adam Cuerden
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