Author : Rudyard Kipling
Release : 1913
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Life's Handicap by : Rudyard Kipling

Download or read book Life's Handicap written by Rudyard Kipling. This book was released on 1913. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: ...' winking.'"How's a' wi' you?" said Jock, and came in by the side o' the Sacramento profligate, two inches, or it may have been one, taller than he.'"You're long," said the man, opening his eyes. "But I am longer." An' they sent a whistle through the night an' howkit out Sandy Vowle from his bit bungalow, and he came in an' stood by the side o' Jock, an' the pair just fillit the room to the ceiling-cloth.'The Sacramento man was a euchre-player and a most profane sweerer. "You hold both Bowers," he said, "but the Joker is with me."'"Fair an' softly," says Nailor. "Jock, whaur's Lang Lammitter?"'"Here," says that man, putting his leg through the window and coming in like an anaconda o' the desert furlong by furlong, one foot in Penang and one in Batavia, and a hand in North Borneo it may be.'"Are you suited?" said Nailor, when the hinder end o' Lang Lammitter was slidden through the sill an' the head of Lammitter was lost in the smoke away above.'The American man took out his card..