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The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition
by Rudyard Kipling
CONTENTS
VOLUME I DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES
DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES
Prelude?General Summary?Army Headquarters?Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink?A Legend of the Foreign Office?The Story of Uriah?The Post that Fitted?Public Waste?Delilah?What Happened?Pink Dominoes?The Man Who Could Write?Municipal?A Code of Morals?The Last Department
OTHER VERSES?Recessional?The Vampire?To the Unknown Goddess?The Rubaiyat of Omar Kal'vin?La Nuit Blanche?My Rival?The Lovers' Litany?A Ballad of Burial?Divided Destinies?The Masque of Plenty?The Mare's Nest?Possibilities?Christmas in India?Pagett, M. P.?The Song of the Women?A Ballad of Jakko Hill?The Plea of the Simla Dancers?Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House?"As the Bell Clinks"?An Old Song?Certain Maxims of Hafiz?The Grave of the Hundred Head?The Moon of Other Days?The Overland Mail?What the People Said?The Undertaker's Horse?The Fall of Jock Gillespie?Arithmetic on the Frontier?One Viceroy Resigns?The Betrothed?A Tale of Two Cities
VOLUME II BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS
BALLADS?The Ballad of East and West?The Last Suttee?The Ballad of the King's Mercy?The Ballad of the King's Jest?The Ballad of Boh Da Thone?The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief?The Rhyme of the Three Captains?The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"?The Ballad of the "Bolivar"?The English Flag?Cleared?An Imperial Rescript?Tomlinson?Danny Deever?Tommy?Fuzzy-Wuzzv?Soldier, Soldier?Screw-Guns?Gunga Din?Oonts?Loot?"Snarleyow"?The Widow at Windsor?Belts?The Young British Soldier?Mandalay?Troopin'?Ford O' Kabul River?Route-Marchin'
VOLUME III THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW AND OTHER?GHOST STORIES
The Phantom 'Rickshaw?My Own True Ghost Story?The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes?The Man Who Would Be King?"The Finest Story in The World"
VOLUME IV UNDER THE DEODARS
The Education of Otis Yeere?At the Pit's Mouth?A Wayside Comedy?The Hill of Illusion?A Second-rate Woman?Only a Subaltern?In the Matter of a Private?The Enlightenments of Pagett. M. P.
VOLUME V PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
Lispeth?Three And an Extra?Thrown Away?Miss Youghal's Sais?"Yoked With an Unbeliever"?False Dawn?The Rescue of Pluffles?Cupid's Arrows?His Chance in Life?Watches of The Night?The Other Man?Consequences?The Conversion of Aurellan McGoggin?A Germ-destroyer?Kidnapped?The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly?In The House of Suddhoo?His Wedded Wife?The Broken-link Handicap?Beyond The Pale?In Error?A Bank Fraud?Tods' Amendment?In The Pride of His Youth?Pig?The Rout of The White Hussars?The Bronckhorst Divorce-case?Venus Annodomini?The Bisara of Pooree?A Friend's Friend?The Gate of The Hundred Sorrows?The Story of Muhammad Din?On The Strength of a Likeness?Wressley of The Foreign Office?By Word of Mouth?To Be Filed For Reference?The Last Relief?Bitters Neat?Haunted Subalterns
VOLUME VI THE LIGHT THAT FAILED
VOLUME VII THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS
Preface?Poor Dear Mamma?The World Without?The Tents of Kedar?With Any Amazement?The Garden of Eden?Fatima?The Valley of the Shadow?The Swelling of Jordan
VOLUME VIII from MINE OWN PEOPLE
Bimi?Namgay Doola?The Recrudescence Of Imray?Moti Guj--Mutineer
VOLUME I DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES
I have eaten your bread and salt,
I have drunk your water and wine,?The deaths ye died I have watched beside,
And the lives that ye led were mine.
Was there aught that I did not share
In vigil or toil or ease,?One joy or woe that I did not know,
Dear hearts across the seas?
I have written the tale of our life
For a sheltered people's mirth,?In jesting guise--but ye are wise,?And ye know what the jest is worth.
GENERAL SUMMARY
We are very slightly changed?From the semi-apes who ranged
India's prehistoric clay;?Whoso drew the longest bow,?Ran his brother down, you know,
As we run men down today.
"Dowb," the first of all his race,?Met the Mammoth face to face
On the lake or in the cave,?Stole the steadiest canoe,?Ate the quarry others slew,
Died--and took the finest grave.
When they scratched the reindeer-bone?Someone made the sketch his own,
Filched it from the artist--then,?Even in those early days,?Won a simple Viceroy's praise
Through the toil of other men.
Ere they hewed the Sphinx's visage?Favoritism governed kissage,?Even as it does in this age.
Who shall doubt the secret hid?Under Cheops' pyramid?Was that the contractor did
Cheops out of several millions??Or that Joseph's sudden rise?To Comptroller of Supplies?Was a fraud of monstrous size
On King Pharoah's swart Civilians?
Thus, the artless songs I sing?Do not deal with anything
New or never said before.
As it was in the beginning,?Is today official sinning,
And shall be forevermore.
ARMY HEADQUARTERS
Old is the song that I sing--
Old as my unpaid bills--?Old as the chicken that kitmutgars