Template:RQ:Kipling Plain Tales

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Rudyard Kipling's work Plain Tales from the Hills (1st collected edition, 1888; and 2nd edition, 1889). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition (1888).
• 2nd edition (1889).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 2nd edition (1889), specify |edition=2nd. If this parameter is omitted, the template links to the 1st edition (1888).
• |1=, |chapter=, or |story= – the name of the "chapter" or story quoted from. The following stories will be linked to English Wikipedia articles about them:

For help with linking other story names to English Wikipedia articles, please leave a message on the template talk page.

• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

1st edition (1888)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Kipling Plain Tales|story=Thrown Away|page=15|passage=He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “'''head'''” that followed after drink.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Kipling Plain Tales|Thrown Away|15|He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “'''head'''” that followed after drink.}}
• Result:
  • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 15:

    He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “head” that followed after drink.

2nd edition (1889)

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Kipling Plain Tales|edition=2nd|story=Miss Youghal's Sais|page=30|passage=Here all trace of him was lost, until a '''''sais''''' or groom met me on the Simla Mall with this extraordinary note:— {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1887 April 25, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal’s Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, 2nd edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 30:

    Here all trace of him was lost, until a sais or groom met me on the Simla Mall with this extraordinary note:— […]

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Kipling Plain Tales|edition=2nd|story=The Bisara of Pooree|pages=254–255|pageref=254|passage=Pack had been '''tiffining''' by himself to the right of the arch, and had heard everything.}}
• Result:
  • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, 2nd edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1889, →OCLC, pages 254–255:

    Pack had been tiffining by himself to the right of the arch, and had heard everything.