A MATTER OF FACT by RUDYARD KIPLING
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories entails this is your host |
| 0:34.0 | John Heganhorn today a great story from redyard Kipling called a matter of fact |
| 0:39.2 | first a note for all you listeners if you've been missing Jack London stories it's because we just started a new podcast called |
| 0:46.7 | 1,001 best of Jack London. You'll find it wherever you get your podcast and the purpose there is to house all of our Jack London stories |
| 0:54.8 | archived and new right there and you'll find some great stories coming in. |
| 0:59.6 | Just remember 1001 best of Jack London. |
| 1:04.4 | Now for our story, a matter of fact by Rudyard Kipling. |
| 1:10.1 | And if ye doubt the tale I tell, |
| 1:12.4 | steer through the South Pacific swell, go with a branching coral |
| 1:16.2 | hives, unending strife of endless lives, were leagued about the wildered boat. The rainbow jellies fill and float, and lilting with a laver |
| 1:26.6 | lingers, the starfish trips on all her fingers. Where, beneath his myriad spines a shock, the sea egg ripples down the rock. |
| 1:35.8 | An orange wonder dimly guessed, from darkness where the cuddles rest, |
| 1:40.3 | Moored or the darker deeps at hide, a blind white sea snake and his bride. |
| 1:45.0 | Who drowsing knows the long lost ships, let down through darkness to their lips, |
| 1:51.0 | the palms. |
| 1:55.1 | Once a priest, always a priest. |
| 1:57.2 | Once a mason, always a mason. |
| 1:59.5 | But once a journalist, always in forever a journalist. |
| 2:03.9 | There were three of us, all newspaper men, the only passengers on a little tramp steamer that ran |
| 2:08.9 | where her owners told her to go. |
| 2:11.7 | She had once been in the Bill Bail, iron ore business, had been lent to the Spanish government |
| 2:15.9 | for service at Manila, and was ending her days in the Cape Town Cooley trade, with occasional |
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