Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Practice
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.
- Twenty Years After
- Dis Aliter Visum
- De Profundis
- The Unlimited “Draw” of “Tick” Boileau
- My Christmas Caller
- The History of a Crime
- Prisoners and Captives
- “From Olympus to Hades”
- “Les Miserables.”
- A Nightmare of Rule
- What Came of It
- An Official Secret
- Le Roi en Exil
- A Scrap of Paper
- The Mystification of Santa Claus
- “Love in Old Cloathes”
- The Case of Adamah
- A Tale of ’98
- A Rather More Fishy Case
- The House of Shadows
- The Confession of an Impostor
- The Judgment of Paris
- Five Days After Date
- The Hill of Illusion
- Le Monde ou L'On S'Amuse
- An Intercepted Letter
- The Recurring Smash
- How Liberty Came to the Bolan
- “Under Sentence”
- The Dreitarbund
- In Memoriam
- On Signatures
- The Great Strike
- “The Biggest Liar in Asia”
- Deputating a Viceroy
- A Merry Christmas
- The New Year's Sermon
- New Year's Gifts
- Mister Anthony Dawking
- “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- The Wedding Guest
- The Tracking of Chuckerbutti
- “Bread upon the Waters”
- A Free Gift
- A Hill Homily
- The “Kingdom” of Bombay
- Bombaystes Furioso
- A Day Off
- The Unpunishable Cherub
- In Gilded Halls
- “Till the Day Break”
- The Fountain of Honour
- The Burden of Nineveh
- His Natural Destiny
- That District Log-Book
- An Unequal Match
- A Horrible Scandal
- An Exercise in Administration
- My New Purchase
- Exercises in Administration
- The Dignity of It.
- Exercises in Administration
- In Wonderland
- In the Year ’92
- “A Free Hand”
- Susannah and the Elder
- The Coming K
- What the World Said
- An Interesting Condition
- The Comet of a Season
- Gallihauk's Pup
- The Inauthorated Corpses
- One Lady at Wairakei
- The Princess in the Pickle-Bottle
- Why Snow Falls at Vernet
- The Cause of Humanity
- appendices
- Juvenilia
- Incomplete and Fragmentary Stories
- Ibbetson Dun
- At the Pit's Mouth
- Sons of Belial
- A Daughter of Heth
- Stories Doubtfully Attributed
- Glossary
Ibbetson Dun
from Incomplete and Fragmentary Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Practice
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.
- Twenty Years After
- Dis Aliter Visum
- De Profundis
- The Unlimited “Draw” of “Tick” Boileau
- My Christmas Caller
- The History of a Crime
- Prisoners and Captives
- “From Olympus to Hades”
- “Les Miserables.”
- A Nightmare of Rule
- What Came of It
- An Official Secret
- Le Roi en Exil
- A Scrap of Paper
- The Mystification of Santa Claus
- “Love in Old Cloathes”
- The Case of Adamah
- A Tale of ’98
- A Rather More Fishy Case
- The House of Shadows
- The Confession of an Impostor
- The Judgment of Paris
- Five Days After Date
- The Hill of Illusion
- Le Monde ou L'On S'Amuse
- An Intercepted Letter
- The Recurring Smash
- How Liberty Came to the Bolan
- “Under Sentence”
- The Dreitarbund
- In Memoriam
- On Signatures
- The Great Strike
- “The Biggest Liar in Asia”
- Deputating a Viceroy
- A Merry Christmas
- The New Year's Sermon
- New Year's Gifts
- Mister Anthony Dawking
- “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- The Wedding Guest
- The Tracking of Chuckerbutti
- “Bread upon the Waters”
- A Free Gift
- A Hill Homily
- The “Kingdom” of Bombay
- Bombaystes Furioso
- A Day Off
- The Unpunishable Cherub
- In Gilded Halls
- “Till the Day Break”
- The Fountain of Honour
- The Burden of Nineveh
- His Natural Destiny
- That District Log-Book
- An Unequal Match
- A Horrible Scandal
- An Exercise in Administration
- My New Purchase
- Exercises in Administration
- The Dignity of It.
- Exercises in Administration
- In Wonderland
- In the Year ’92
- “A Free Hand”
- Susannah and the Elder
- The Coming K
- What the World Said
- An Interesting Condition
- The Comet of a Season
- Gallihauk's Pup
- The Inauthorated Corpses
- One Lady at Wairakei
- The Princess in the Pickle-Bottle
- Why Snow Falls at Vernet
- The Cause of Humanity
- appendices
- Juvenilia
- Incomplete and Fragmentary Stories
- Ibbetson Dun
- At the Pit's Mouth
- Sons of Belial
- A Daughter of Heth
- Stories Doubtfully Attributed
- Glossary
Summary
Published: United Services College Chronicle, Part i, 20 March 1882; Part ii, 3 June 1882.
Attribution: In bound volume of United Services College Chronicle at Haileybury College, his contributions identified by RK.
Text: United Services College Chronicle.
Notes: The story belongs to both the juvenilia and incomplete categories. RK edited the United Services College Chronicle, a school paper, from June 1881 to July 1882. It had been revived by the headmaster, Cormell Price, expressly so that RK could edit it. He made regular contributions to the paper throughout his tenure as editor and later sent contributions to it from India.
RK's only mention of this story is in a letter of 9 March 1882 in which he says that the Chronicle has gone to press and that ‘it will be a very large number this time and has the first portion of a serial in it’ (Letters, il, 17). The serial was never finished or at least never fully published, there being two parts only. It has been reprinted in Harbord, i, 520–3.
Portion of an unrolled MS. in a deserted study
A desolate stretch of gray sodden waste, with here and there a gorseclump in which stray rabbits, exiled from the Upper Cliffs, take refuge. A place barren and gloomy enough at its best, when the flags that fringe each drain-gully burst into ragged yellow stars; when the winds rest a little and dandelions flower aggressively from the blistered mud. In Autumn the rain comes with incessant down-pour to flood the rabbit- holes and soak the unkempt ponies. Every evening, white mists rise from the pools and float over plash and puddle like an army of wearied ghosts. In Winter the sea hammers and pounds persistently at the low embankment till a breach [“beach” in USCC] is made and the tide riots in, burdened with wrack and weed, to spread aimlessly over the face of the waste till the good folk of Daoul plaster up the embankment in Spring; for the Levels must be protected or the beasts will starve. Now, it was Christmas Eve, and in spite of dismal weather the narrow, crooked streets of Daoul were alive with merrymaking of all sorts.
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- The Cause of Humanity and Other StoriesThe Cause of Humanity and Other Stories Uncollected Prose Fictions, pp. 393 - 397Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018