“Five and twenty ponies
Trotting through the dark—
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk.
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie—
Watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by!”

—  Rudyard Kipling

A Smuggler's Song.
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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