Puck of Pook's Hill #3

 My reading of the third chapter of "Puck of Pook's Hill" by Rudyard Kipling (1906). This time the children have a return visit with Sir Richard for tales of daring-do at sea. I've given up trying to sing (be grateful for small mercies) and settled for discordant recitation. Puck is less prominent in this chapter. The more politically correct listeners might want to stopper up their ears at the use of some racial terms that are very much of their Edwardian day.

The two songs that bookend this chapter can be listened to with renderings by proper singers, this is a lovely version of Harp Song of the Dame Women by Wendy Stewart (which should obviously be sung by a woman, or a chorus of them, and not by me) and here a nice sea shanty version of Thorkild's Song by Peter Bellamy.



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