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PseudoPod 740: Kecksies (https://pseudopod.org/2021/01/15/pseudopod-740-kecksies/)
Author: Marjorie Bowen (https://pseudopod.org/people/marjorie-bowen/)
Narrator: Paul S. Jenkins (https://pseudopod.org/people/paul-s-jenkins/)
Host: Alex Hofelich (https://pseudopod.org/people/alex-hofelich/)
Audio Producer: Chelsea Davis (https://pseudopod.org/people/chelsea-davis/)
“Kecksies” was first published in Regent Magazine, January 25, 1925
Two young esquires were riding from Canterbury, jolly and drunk, they shouted and trolled and rolled in their saddles as they followed the winding road across the downs.
A dim sky was overhead and shut in the wide expanse of open country that one side stretched to the sea and the other to the Kentish Weald.
The primroses grew in thick posies in the ditches, the hedges were full of fresh hawthorn green, and the new grey leaves of eglantine and honeysuckle, the long boughs of ash with the hard black buds, and the wand-like shoots of sallow willow hung with catkins and the smaller red tassels of the nut and birch; little the two young men heeded of any of these things, for they were in their own country that was thrice familiar; but Nick Bateup blinked across to the distant purple hills, and cursed the gathering rain. “Ten miles more of the open,” he muttered, “and a great storm blackening upon us.”
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