![]() ![]() Raven-Hill, from The Complete Stalky & Co. But when they tell a group of club Members that they have caught the Major playing very badly–and cheating–they are quickly released, scot free. On their way back to College they are caught and called to account by the Club Secretary. ![]() Soon after, he sees the boys, and boxes Beetle’s ears (or in another version strikes McTurk with his club) but departs hurriedly when they cover him with their catapults and pepper his retreating legs. Hidden under the lip of a bunker, they watch him lose his ball, and cheat by dropping a new one. The Major quickly shows himself to be an incompetent golfer. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. The boys are told, very rudely, to get off the links by a red-coated stranger, a retired army Major. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]() It was first published in 1899, following serialisation in the Windsor Magazine. ![]() Three twelve year old schoolboys, Corkran, ‘of the dancing eyes’, McTurk, ‘bony and sallow, black haired, black lashed, with a distinct Irish accent’, and Beetle, ‘fat and unhandy … (rubbing)… the wet from his spectacles’, are out for a game of golf on the ‘Burrows’, the waste of sandhills between Westward Ho! and the sea. is a book of Boarding School stories by Rudyard Kipling, featuring the exploits of Guile Hero Stalky and his pals Beetle and MTurk. This is an unfinished story, only published in the Kipling Journal for March 2004. ![]()
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