A Kipling Anthology; Prose

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Excerpt: ... moonlight, joined other sheets waiting for them in unsuspected hollows, and lay out all in one. A puff of wind followed. "My Son's Wife." r HERE THEY found the ghost of a patch of lucerne that had refused to die; there a harsh fallow surrendered to yard-high thistles; and here a breadth of rampant kelk feigning to be lawful crop. In the ungrazed pastures swaths of dead stuff caught their feet, and the ground beneath glistened with sweat. At the bottom of the valley a little brook had undermined its foot-bridge, and frothed in the wreckage. But there stood great woods on the slopes beyond-- old, tall, and brilliant, like unfaded tapestries against the walls of a ruined house. An Habitation Enforced. "IT'S not our land. We've only paid for it. We belong to it, and it belongs to the people --our people they call 'em." An Habitation Enforced. INDEX INDEX A blind man cannot "A dhirty man," he was used to say A glare of light on the stair-head A light spring rain--elephant- rain A locomotive is, next to a marine engine A man should, whatever happens "A man who can only do one thing A newspaper office seems to attract A Simla funeral A solid line of blue Above all this war without honour Above t hem, s t ill enormously above them All India is full of holy men *' All I say is that you can All the world knows "Allah ho Akbar "; then a pause And she--oh 1 that I could "And there are noises under the sea As an Acting District Superin- tendent As frame after frame followed As the day wears As the elephant swung up the steep roads As the light beat across my face At last he saw the brushwood-pile At last, in a dry, hot dawn At twenty the things *' * Bah ! * he says, "Nothing's stronger "Because any man can lie Before he was thirty, he dis- covered The Light thai Failed . The Incarnation of Krish...