Rudyard Kipling - Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

The Complete Works of

RUDYARD KIPLING

(1865-1936)

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The Complete Works of

RUDYARD KIPLING

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling

First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Delphi Classics.

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ISBN: 978 1 90890 928 2

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Please note: In the Rukh was in fact the first Mowgli story that Kipling wrote, published a year before The Jungle Book in the short story collection Many Inventions . However, the action of the story is set later than the other Mowgli stories.

Please note: the stories are placed in the chronological order of action.

Kiplings birthplace - Malabar Point, Bombay, 1865

Kiplings first novel was published in 1890 in Lippincotts Monthly Magazine. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. The novel follows the adventures of Dick Heldar, a painter who goes blind.

The first publication

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Rudyard Kipling (right) with his father John Lockwood Kipling (left), c. 1890

So we settled it all when the storm was done

As comfy as comfy could be;

And I was to wait in the barn, my dears,

Because I was only three;

And Teddy would run to the rainbows foot,

Because he was five and a man;

And thats how it all began, my dears,

And thats how it all began.

Big Barn Stories.

WHAT do you think shed do if she caught us? We oughtnt to have it, you know, said Maisie.

Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom, Dick answered, without hesitation. Have you got the cartridges?

Yes; theyre in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?

Dont know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.

Im not afraid. Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fire revolver.

The children had discovered that their lives would be unendurable without pistol-practice. After much forethought and self-denial, Dick had saved seven shillings and sixpence, the price of a badly constructed Belgian revolver. Maisie could only contribute half a crown to the syndicate for the purchase of a hundred cartridges. You can save better than I can, Dick, she explained; I like nice things to eat, and it doesnt matter to you. Besides, boys ought to do these things.

Dick grumbled a little at the arrangement, but went out and made the purchase, which the children were then on their way to test. Revolvers did not lie in the scheme of their daily life as decreed for them by the guardian who was incorrectly supposed to stand in the place of a mother to these two orphans. Dick had been under her care for six years, during which time she had made her profit of the allowances supposed to be expended on his clothes, and, partly through thoughtlessness, partly through a natural desire to pain, she was a widow of some years anxious to marry again, had made his days burdensome on his young shoulders.