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Bink · 19/12/2008 12:19

... can anyone help me with something that was probably called a "Treasury" or a "Golden Treasury" and probably published by Paul Hamlyn (as I've seen volumes of theirs from around the relevant date, and the presentation looks similar to what I remember), probably around, hmmm, 1962-7ish, as it was my older sister's, and big, fat, square and pink-cloth-bound, and (and here we get a little more specific) it had in it:

  • an extract from Rikki Tikki Tavi; and
  • the most extraordinarily spooky surreal story, again set in sub-continent or similar, about a boy (orphaned I imagine) who has to spend a night in a temple, and is somehow warned to make sure he finds a small, secure place to sleep, and does, and comes out in the morning to find the place has been completely razed by (?) a rat plague

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jellyhead · 19/12/2008 12:27

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JackieNoCribForABed · 19/12/2008 12:33

Rikki Tikki Tavi is Kipling.

NO help on the book, but is this the story you remember (scroll down for a summary of the story)?

Bink · 19/12/2008 13:11

Jackie I have shivers going down my spine

YES YES that is the story

(also I should have said, yes I know RTT is Kipling - I just mentioned that bit in case it helped with identifying all the rest of the book, which was full of marvellous things .... like the boy priest story)

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