high-handled

Updated: July 5, 2025

Take these pictures, caught almost anywhere during a journey: A knot of little children in difficulties with the village water-tap or high-handled pump. A soldier, bearded and fatherly, or young and slim and therefore rather shy of the big girls' chaff, comes forward and lifts the pail or swings the handle.

Rudyard Kipling - France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization