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Debits and Credits

Public domain audiobook

Debits and Credits

by Rudyard Kipling

English· 10:19:34· 30 chapters
This is a collection of short stories, poems, and play fragments published in 1926. Many of them are set during World War I. Many have strong references to the Masonic Lodge and its "brethren." The odes attributed to Horace are actually poems written by Kipling imitating the old Roman style.


Note: Some of these stories contain outdated attitudes and racial stereotypes. Section 7, "The United Idolaters," and section 13, "The Prophet and the Country," contain racial terms objectionable to many listeners.


Cast list for Gow's Watch (both scenes)

Narrator: Larry Wilson
Gow: Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi
Ferdinand: Amos Buchanan
Priest of the Mountain Men: Beeswaxcandle
Princess: Elsie Selwyn


Cast list for "The Supports"
Narrator: Larry Wilson
Powers and Gifts: Tweetmeow12
Toils: TriciaG
Glories: Alan Mapstone
Services and Loves: Agnes Robert Behr
Patiences: James R. Hedrick
Hopes: Elsie Selwyn
Faiths: Jenn Broda

LibriVox recordings are public domain in the United States; copyright status may differ elsewhere.

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    The Enemies to Each Other

    39:19
  2. Chapter 2

    The Changelings

    01:44
  3. Chapter 3

    Sea Constables: a Tale of ’15

    37:46
  4. Chapter 4

    The Vineyard; "Banquet Night"

    04:11
  5. Chapter 5

    "In the Interests of the Brethren"

    34:12
  6. Chapter 6

    To the Companions (Horace, ode 17, Bk. v.)

    01:56
  7. Chapter 7

    The United Idolaters

    37:53
  8. Chapter 8

    The Centaurs; "Late Came the God"

    03:30
  9. Chapter 9

    The Wish House

    47:13
  10. Chapter 10

    Rahere; The Survival (Horace, Ode 22 Bk. v.)

    05:18
  11. Chapter 11

    The Janeites

    47:54
  12. Chapter 12

    Jane's Marriage; The Portent (Horace, Ode 20, Bk, v.)

    03:02
  13. Chapter 13

    The Prophet and the Country

    36:38
  14. Chapter 14

    Gow's Watch Act IV. Scene 4

    04:42
  15. Chapter 15

    The Bull that Thought

    45:58
  16. Chapter 16

    Alnaschar and the Oxen; Gipsy Vans

    06:24
  17. Chapter 17

    A Madonna of the Trenches

    33:18
  18. Chapter 18

    Gow's Watch Act V. Scene 3

    06:59
  19. Chapter 19

    The Birthright

    02:27
  20. Chapter 20

    The Propagation of Knowledge

    47:08
  21. Chapter 21

    A Legend of Truth

    03:25
  22. Chapter 22

    A Friend of the Family

    33:33
  23. Chapter 23

    We and They

    02:40
  24. Chapter 24

    On the Gate

    42:27
  25. Chapter 25

    The Supports

    04:34
  26. Chapter 26

    Untimely

    01:39
  27. Chapter 27

    The Eye of Allah

    49:27
  28. Chapter 28

    The Last Ode: Nov. 27, B.C. 8 (Horace, Ode 31, Bk. v.)

    01:41
  29. Chapter 29

    The Gardener

    30:11
  30. Chapter 30

    The Burden

    02:25