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KIPLING

THE

STORY-WRITER

BY

WALTER

UNIVERSITY

MORRIS

CALIFORNIA

OF

BERKELEY

1918

HART

PRESS

PREFACE

In

of

the
course

Story

work

of

Rudyard

fully

rather
were

class-room

lectures.

advised

Professor

Professor

Charles

To

these

being.

Without

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have

of

it

due
are

for

less

concerned.

gracious

illustrative

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notes

and

College

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its

book

suggestions,

and

him,

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to

to

which

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than

worthy

permission

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passages

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for

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study

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writer

criticisms

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been

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owes

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forth

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English

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CONTENTS
PAGE

INTRODUCTION

ONE:

PAET

THE

INDIAN

CHAPTER

PERIOD

SETTINGS

CHAPTER

CHARACTERS

II

PSYCHOLOGY

AND

12

CHAPTER

PLOTS

AND

III

SIGNIFICANCE

THEIR

33
,

CHAPTER

GENERAL

CHARACTERISTICS

TWO:

PART

FIRST

THE

OF

TRANSITIONAL

PERIOD

PERIOD

THE

CHAPTER

THE

IV

OF

Ill

TRANSITION

TECHNIQUE

PART

THREE:

134

THE

CHAPTER

ENGLISH

PERIOD

VI

SETTINGS

160

CHAPTER

CHARACTERS

AND

PSYCHOLOGY

170

CHAPTER

PLOTS

AND

THEIR

VII

VIII

SIGNIFICANCE

192

CHAPTER

IX

CONCLUSION

217
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14

who

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KIPLING

16

of

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less

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repetition of native
amendment
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to

idealized, are
badness.
nature

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official,

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inexperi-

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STOEY

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garrison "widow,"
do

not

by

any

KIPLING

18

wife, being

Chaplain's
in

shape of fuss

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lied to

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valley,

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in

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stories
it

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revenge,

reads
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emotions
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describing a woman
Kipling
(I, 427).
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of
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sea:
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KIPLING

20

loses

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with

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the

stories

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is

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by

no

reader

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of

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well

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is

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sand-slope.

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river-front, only
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narrator

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night

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fear, and,

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energetic

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ride

all,

in

too

KIPLING

22

often,

Scott's

of

unaware

this

and

openly,

too

talks

in the

effective; its

more

's bungalow

Imray

Club

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into

the

if

as

creaked

quitted

them.

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at

celebration

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of

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leopard.
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it is

know

what

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more

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is, in

leopard's
"

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chairs

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and

to

Fleete

; we

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is discovered

Imray

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body,
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forehead

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with

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murderer.

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stone

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detects

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when

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interfere

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to

surprised

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Still

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's servants.

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sound

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she

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quarters

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ghost.

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as

"chatty"

terror.

are

himself

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rather

pure

methods

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later

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evidently

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against

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is

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desire

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to

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gristle,"

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light

spirit

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"

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falls

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and
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a

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says

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Kipling,
and

human

which

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manner.

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in

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and

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of

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it is apparent

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ground,

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lead

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PSYCHOLOGY

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AND

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beauty
as

tale

KIPLING

24

of

terror

S.

Carleton

The

than

ventures

nicely

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perhaps

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son

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in

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In

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that

to

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of

affectation.

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we

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ourselves

disguise

and

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are

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to

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words,

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write

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than

more

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A
the

lower

KIPLING

26

howwid

of

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a

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will

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Mrs.

Reiver

is married

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heroines

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or

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corpse

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may

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there

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delights

tradition

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lover

heroes

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is

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or

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Kipling.
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's

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Maupassant,
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of

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ancient

playing

women

and

protesting

Kipling

as

have

like

one,

loves, that

the

from

France,

her

worlds.

woman

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conflict

inconvenient

unworthy

perpetuate

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that,

story.

Reiver

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Gadsbys

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"

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girl."

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him

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28

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KIPLING

32

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34

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Tales

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38

indeed,

was,

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each

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tale

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KIPLING

40

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KIPLING

42

of

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take

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KIPLING

44

of

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with

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make

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of

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45

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the

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46

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emotions

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life.
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KIPLING

48

straint

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KIPLING

50

The

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of

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52

Short-Story,
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58

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of

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the

heroine,

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girl's thought.

the

No

61

"Drunk,

terms.

of

actions.

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through

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character

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and

SIGNIFICANCE

the
these

imitation, conscious
or

of

similarity

literary influences

"

as

KIPLING

62

for

example

impossible

to

relation

with

it

writing

Harte.

his

character

of

familiarity

who

American

it is Mr.

the

lady

travelled
the

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road

the

timber

felled

in

pines

been

Hamblin

and

but

leisure

washed
used

was

and

sweating

heated

the

was

to

six

his

stop

the

the

stage

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to

tongue,

left

in

Kipling
the

the
the

there
;

his

came

that

in

card-play;
sunshine

for
of

ing
morn-

the

eye

rejoiced.

miners

earth

dry gulch,

in

roll

Glaus

; the

superior
resin

the

country,

red

than

Harte

Francisco

hills

madrone-clad

San

objected

seeing with

own

had

fatherland.

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's

Harte

Bret

had

her

San

Leaving

earlier,
and

Bret

is, under

Mr.

ling
Kip-

world

He

Santa

California.

and

there

gold had

elegant

' '

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declared

had

peculiar

much

original.

was

among;

where

his

the

fought

how

exotic

years

through

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you

and

Harte

ruined

they

his

Harte,

outside

the

distinctly unpleasant,

that

were

whence

see

to

through

was

flesh

the

and

northward
heat

read

two

He

"catching
of

Bret

Harte."

ground.

because

cadence

to

of the

beauty

it hallowed

"chose

admitted,

Bret

work.
to

of

and

who

novel

some

of

1891, mentioned

in

Bret

for

less

himself

the

Bar,'

deal

largely

found

he
prose

Simpson's

of

Lang

his

with

made

voices

rhythmical

and

doubt,"

admiration

great

had

American

of

No

subjects.

worth

man

an

the

his

his

case

sort

some

review,"

from

mainly

literary progenitor,

him, because

of

popularity

seen

imitator

an

freely expressed

Francisco
the

little but

as

visiting California

revealed

the

writing French,

Parisian

himself, however,
had

of

nature

have

gentleman,

well, in

Kipling

his

has

Kipling

the

writing

Lang,

Scotch

young

late,

and

Andrew

' '

Mr.

deriving

it is in

"

early

wonderfully

regard

to

to

Kipling,

opinion of

the

Dickens

WEITEB

say.

of

Critics

of

that

to

STORY

THE

lived
showed

red, dusty
intervals
was

and, above

the

all,

PLOTS

there

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was

into

stopped
of

at

town,

of

of

town

'hotel,'
next

the

to

opposite

tree

red-shirted
miner

shirted
for

drink.

shading

and
train.

the

from

while
her

swung

Harte;
his

he

for

author

additional

all

the

Harte

dull

brain,"

stood

strings.
a

one

occasion;

the

additional

's style
which

his

on

he

of

one

the

his partner
a

The

head,

few

yards

train

went

M'liss

and

lively recollection
writes

who

has

mis-spelling
evidence

himself

fair,

' '

"driving

as

master,
school-

always

River,

downy

known

the

was

true.

were

one,

panting

had

"

claimed

Sacramento

as

if

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but

the

and

too.

indoors

house
at

of

blue-

went

her

young

the

dust-haze,

married

never

and

hotel,

two

knew

and

stump

the

the

other

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things

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to

stared

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write

virtue

hand

cinnamon-bear

in

the

only

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the

by

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when

these

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me,

oak,

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back

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Law.

sun-bonnet

Kipling

out

knew

the

that

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the

supported

the

was

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was

worthy

the

was

"

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of

hands

shouted

away,
on

who

hat

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men

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hillside.

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name

place

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the

cast-iron

the

"

very
; a

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of

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in

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her

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of

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fountain

miner

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pen.

name

drives

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dignified by

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feet

was

the

thousand.

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his

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it owned

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"

of

cases

complete.

63

that

magic

packing

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hotel

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thirty

least

at

of

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heat

the

felicity was

my

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pungent

with

brain

collection

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quivering

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of

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up"

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necessary.

impression
sought

and

is

into

your

achieved

KIPLING

64

"

nail

Andrew

as

even,

earlier

these

Lang

head."

the

on

On

be

could

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butcher

will

says

Mclntosh

Kipling;

and

the

Harte.

Yet

have

the

same

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degree.
with

they

in

it

However,

that

landscapes
indeed,

mind,

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are

can

"

the

road,

imagine
necessary

the

stylist than

Harte
to

of

direct

Harte

also

of

the

furnishing
the

writes

East

far

and

led

of

prose.

him

Indian

the

to

expect.
of

dry

the
upon

gulch,

dust-haze.

landscape,

them
of

the

's

Harte

themselves

in

of

enough,

him

heat, the

energy

ness-like
busi-

as

features

those

through

more

portrayer

to

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creative

he

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pungent

pack-mule

same

was

the

as

impress

naturally

gerations,
exag-

's.

had

just

own

the

levels

recalled

scene

's

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it

Harte

Harte.

selected

in

not

lower

of Bret

quivering

characteristic

the

temporary
con-

same

old-fashioned

model

would

the

to

from

Harte

commonplace

as

in it what
had

that

be

thought

saw

moreover,

dusty

as

of

different:

always

California

of it ; he

Anglo-Indian

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the

Kipling

stories

red

to

of

kind

own

little pompous,

of the

to

his

allusions, the

very

notes

Bret

quotations

exaggeration

an

jerky

style of

after

each

pretended

was

it aimed

less

actual

the

descriptions

one

flourish

upon
was

and

the

to

reader.

description

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applied

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like the

formed

as

of

his

hands

he

beauty

own

your

the
in

alien

an

into

when

be

of

of

seem,

not

rhythmic

stiffness, though

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carve

classical

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possible, to keep

not

was

the

like

read
the

movement
as

an

's

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rapid

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not

Harte

always

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hand.

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is

to

journalists,

newspapers
manner

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knocking
does

voice

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serve

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it could

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wrote

style

he

that

at

Jellaludin

were

obtrusive

hand

aimed

have

phrase

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other

destroyed

jargon,"

WRITER

it,a "too

the

the

manner;

STORY

put

stories, to

style which

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and

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to

the

KIPLING

66

Bar

Simpson's

to

situation
Din.

which

revealed

he

exerted
of

elopement
a

hint

for

to

connect

born

the

child

and
in

Kentuck

chance

over

the

in

his weather-beaten

for

'

cuss!'
closed

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feebly

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on

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kind

of

Kipling,

discloses

he

with

acquainted

had

"recently

traits

narrates

the

the

are,

recurrence

Bill, Colonel

at

pleasure
And

characters

furthermore,
same

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his

in

finger,' he
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through

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times
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himself

her

was

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events

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quite
he

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he

The

Kipling,

like

Harte,

he

tendency

remembered

at

Kipling

Harte

person.

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period

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with

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own

meeting

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his

in

story

one

of

his

in

natural

own

fact

the

of the

persons

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of the

itself

assert

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clutch

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stories

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foolish

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member,

ments.
move-

groping

with

self-portraiture.

and
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the

Mrs.

distinctly"

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in

appears

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his

at

rastled

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countenance

self-assertion

toward

half

to

the

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instinctive

tried

one

again, Kipling
or

and

his heart."

about

authority

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venture

of Roaring

blush

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up

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till it settled

body

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hardly

candle-box

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have

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same

moment.

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spasm

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the

of Fiddletown,

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her

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finger, and

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for

with

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less

no

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possibilitiesof

the

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may

out

wife

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Without

yet it

Camp,
both

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the

influence

faithless

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who, in

an

WE1TEE

Kipling

to

forth

sets

child

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Carry,

STOBY

THE

more

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with

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by

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Yet

scandale.
he

though

her

against

her

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wonder

that

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others.

Leyton

['a married

and

good

men."

emphasizes

Harte

in

I have

abstained

his

of

thereof

comparative
to

the

reverence,

mixed

portray

did

might

with

the

of

not

to

care

evil

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view

trust,"

following
might

yet

beneficent

even

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the

and

arise

to

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their

entitled
Harte

do."

painted
inals
orig-

thus

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templation
con-

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to

no

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them

have
in

of

glow

impossible for

qualities.
of

wrote

sketches

have

with

action,

is apt

and

persons;

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them

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romance

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the

generous

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and

to

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it

to

some

made

have
or

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so

"

human

exaggerated

common

moral.

contemplated

motives

really

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dye,

in

that

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but

those

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the

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confusion

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I

of

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moral

humble

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is the

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as

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Kipling

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de-

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tolerant

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perfect people

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seem

at

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succes

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and

resentment

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of

life unbearable.

daughter's

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of

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irritable, always

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the

attitude

Kipling's,

unconventional

an

Chatelaine

the

Kipling

67

in the

like

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like

preached

SIGNIFICANCE

resemblance

success

emphasize

of

parents

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Harte

too

to

their

AND

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Thanks

times
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with

as

to

the

68

of

effect
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the

fast

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suit

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Moriarity

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through

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influence

the

sold

that

Kipling's

in

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he

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Decker,

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know."
reform

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me,

then,

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of

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never

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take

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selection

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and

written

or

discussion

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away

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work

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to

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precisely

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Harte.

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story

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form

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scription
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in

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is, of

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so;

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where

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example,

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with

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contrasts

mere

was

general

expression.
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the

course,

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still

are

of

of

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where,

resemblances.

was

that

degree,

stories, Kipling

the

beginning,

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emphatic

more

own

And,

on.

of

in

points

many

Harte's.

to

admixture

the

is still

in

then

of the

vivid, Kipling's

are

emphasizes

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difference

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are

similar

are

course,

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more;

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the

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so

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of

personality

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dencies
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manner:

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leads

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out

writing

to

within
of

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summary.

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PLOTS

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to

result

of

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tales

no

69

condensed

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for

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of

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and

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present

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far

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or

carried

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in

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In

and

this

condensed

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climax,

first

period.
at

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all

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manifestly

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gather

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easy

than

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marriage

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insure

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of

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into

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riage
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Kipling's

view,

formality,
tie, one

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Clergy"

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marriage
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put

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magazine,

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of

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length.

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way,

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and

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for

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title.

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stories;

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union

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in

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than

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regarded

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published

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1890, and

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our

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purpose

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fatally
less

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pawn-shop.

minutes

will

than

cover

the

KIPLING

70

of

rest

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into

the

blotting-pad

his

teeth, "Now

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that

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of

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story

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to

point

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fairies

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view

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and

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points

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relations
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mystery,

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of

beloved

of

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de

France,

of

of

tale
the

motif;

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judgments

Stevenson's

had,

Ameera

Marie

of

"

perfection

her

adventures

indeed

story

final

story,

; he

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compare
Beach
of Falesa,

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sort

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(in

of those

man.

would

certain

have

he

Mouth

did

animalistic,

trouble

to

did

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he

while

profession."

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like

to

you

the

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senses

persuade
is

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aim,

ever

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the

member

daring.

day,

that

' '

was

frankly

aim

of

critic puts

apparel,

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any

soldiers

they, worthy

Kipling

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less

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and

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Englishmen

the

French

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of

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from

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and

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world."

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"

and

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and

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like

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into

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novelists, had

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upon

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sun

women

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; he

and

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natural

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skated

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spirits, the
light-hearted

but

says,

walk

to

animal

and

life,
and

its scandal

the

liqueurs,

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106

We

aren't

But

single

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if

them

sit in

to

their

are

should

attitude

the

Baa
' '

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would

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says

pagal,

'

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clear

voice

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well

from

out

whatever
have

of

people
for

who

ask

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the

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or

that

type.

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say,

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the

respectable people;
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hearts

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heroes

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be

be!

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the

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alike

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just

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what

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the

tolerance

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as

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course,

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and

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to

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reveal

of
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performs

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function,

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stories

there

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is often

there

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and

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out

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in

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of

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the

understand

as

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appreciate
for

appreciation,

system

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chiefly criticizes

he

or

army,

generalize.

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the

McGoggin,

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what

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or

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usual,

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men's

other

of

India.

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satirist

as

conduct

clan, of

the

administration,

the

assert

part

one

singer of

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the

to

relations.

personal

difficult,as

to

understanding

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and

work

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venture

of

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in

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and

means

every

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that

may

no

officers.

over

range

creed

by

empire,

the

outlined, in

only

humor

satire.

beginning,

of the

nation,

he

both.

humorous

intimate

more

at

comments

107

immoral.

as

Kipling's moralizing
involved

of

both

stories, shafts

regarded

SIGNIFICANCE

other, often

the

now

touches

are

stories

humorous
be

AND

necessity of

the

points of view,

another;

that

he

chiefly

pleads.
is essential

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for

the

matter

dominant
as

this

Policeman
as

and

the

natives

idol

of

his

character

by

Bronckhorst
murdered

its

subjects.

the

It

themselves."

of

because

and

Biel

easily purchased

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had

he

patted

from

not

the

the

natives

consequences

the

destruction

evidence

in

Imray,

save

head

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native

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on

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is therefore

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save

Hanuman,

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Divorce

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as

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emphasis.

extraordinary

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the

Indian

continual

"held

point of view,

native

understand

should

knew

Strickland

defiling

was

India

the

demand

to

ironically,

in

of

to

race

seems

Kipling

says

understand

to

native

The
who

child

KIPLING

108

later, died

who,
Tods,

of

independence
construed

villages

native

the

Russia,
the

know

that

and

is

be

can

know

these

Head

of

known

things,
District

result.

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all

clemency

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of

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Tods'

as

that, if such

and

will

stricted
re-

natives,

to

dangerous;12

the

with

conflict

is

fight side by side with

to

on

the

be

governed,

murder

counted

with

to

native

Yet, in the

weakness.''13

as

came

it is necessary

appointed, confusion

is

one

what

bill which

popular

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respect of the

the

command

cannot

that

aware

was

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not

was

introduced

to

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point of view,

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his master

tells

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the

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and

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generous

by

courage

forward

step

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Marrowbie
On

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the

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who

home,

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Jukes.

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in

point of view
the

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stories

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time

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as

jealousy
ing
anticipatBooks.

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-as

the

in

made

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of

the

celebrates

who
officials,

English

Civil

officials

End

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bitterly satirizes
the

long

as

object of Kipling's

affairs, of

Indian

the

orang-outang,

significant as

are

of

murderous

to

Benefit of Clergy, while

unhesitatingly
he

death,
at

alike.

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stories

just

of the

and

subject

themselves

ignorance

army

and

Passage
the

English

is home

attack

of

variation

and

work

of

knowledge

points of view

will

longer

no

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and

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those

men"
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the

ranks

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as

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for

PLOTS

Lower

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of

tion

Atkins.

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kebmen,

has

Kipling
better

known

countrymen.
essential

studies

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is in

develop

in

kind

of

of

the

necessity
how

of

to

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of

the

or,

more

the

few

in

of

and

views

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army

first

ranks

to

and

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soldier

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other

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over-

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is

sheer

in

part

time,
teach

how

the

makes

to

when

talk

nonsense.

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to

study

the

prove
' '

the

play

military information

other

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of

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game

great

men.

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the

night

at

fellow-

in

good

so

to

written

for

his

by

soldier

which
as

the

in the

snug

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in

running

was

fire

old soldiers

concerning

is

Aft

under

officers and

in

crime

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of homesickness

attacks

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less
Doubt-

Thomas

the

heat, enforced
's

greasy

illustration

of

of his mind

man

o'

loyalty, Kipling

and

how

how

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convey

making

of

out

full

appreciated

insanity,

out

themselves

are

discussion
of

of

battle, and

value

far

shows

regiment

make

to

so

prevalence

green

shows

climax

and

's uniform.

continual

the

to

temporary

and

of

and

of courage

and

result

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in

that

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way,

peculiar psychology

be

may

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addition

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hysteria,

about

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nostalgia,

Ortheris

is in

better

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liked

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cholera.

found

final act

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as

the

inapprecia-

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wearing

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as

down

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of

approach

England

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because

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'arf -license
'

in

India, talking of

about
at

Learoyd

crime.

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measly

fly

existed, also,

Thomas

career

and

rule,

109

SIGNIFICANCE

ignorantly

prevalent opinion

the
in

British

of

THEIE

wander

Tooting,

benefits

AND

the

impossible.
profounder

of

conduct
in

stated
There

few

very

"

life

of the
which

Kipling 's stories.


have

moralists,

vast
are

number

implied,

Exhaustive

been

among

the

who

have

held

writers

higher

KIPLING

110

who

ideals,

have

thought

thoroughgoing

and

such

another

opinions

interest

his

of

the

the

dragon

of

number

whom

jumbling
have

his

have

and
of
lost

evidence,"

already

staggers

him;

characters,

the

all

their

clue

to

is still

the

says

quoted,
in

no

"The

the

meaning."

moral

part
of

opera

ling
Kip-

person,
manner

for

all

discuss

to

of

evidence

with

is,

He

reviewer,

of

of

the

imagination,

Quarterly

of

the

system.

genius
the

through

editorial

able

hurly-burly

disappointments

the

assurance,

himself

said,

have
he

this

all

conceives

he

thinker,
"The

for

spoke

own

the

the

manner,

in

his

that

Gazette

sings

mouth
in

be

the

as

air

an

may

editorial

megaphone,

But

the

writing

megaphone

stories,

the

as

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but

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with

It

as

journalist

which

speak

to

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dragon's

the

aside

develops,

fact.

of

with

basso

it is

simply

subjects

the

number

knowledge,

question.

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maze

the

of

ready

more

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pronouncement.

in

subjects

not

sense

bewilders

to

he

more,

from

lay

the

developed

assurance.

authority,

of

Kipling

the

all

any

the

or

through

to

confident

on

such

For

kinds

mighty

the

moralist

the

all

be

must

made

conduct.

journalist.

on

finality

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forgets

once

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as

with

dealt

human

the

ex-cathedra

much

paper

has

Kipling

judgments

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the

of

command

at

Gazette

the

of

and

meaning

the
none

Kipling

and

Siegfried.

vast

regard

readers.

for

manner

of

to

and

authority

writing

of

phases

have

only

not

also

the

of

of

phase

must

or

But

enlightening

most

of

them.

variety

find

to

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attempt

confronted

which

STORY

THE

his

senses

the

events,

fortune,

he

seems

CHAPTER

GENERAL

IV

CHARACTERISTICS

Kipling

his

senses

of

Kipling,

found

and

orderly
based

of

reasonable

an

analysis

on

himself.

These
if

in

up

And

The

had,

of

causes

by

nature,

desire

to

long

too

Atkins

's

early

be

An
all

the

of

Kipling

characteristics
I

can,

think,

is

technique

be

developed

have

an

properly

training

to

pressed
im-

give

to

very

and

is

profusion

attempt
may

shown

Kipling's

with

richness,

prevailing

the

He

position.

same

it

of

technique

personality

urally,
nat-

his

of

be

summed

realistic, romantic,

all

the

and

he

of

pages
of

one

of

clearness

them,

vision
had

an

seek.

to

had

rather

insatiable

of

instinct

an

he

book

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far

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are

He
velous
mar-

curiosity,

life, dwelling

like

his

own

not

Tommy

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to

these

terms

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admire
to

be

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But

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certain

any

For

realism

Kipling's

observation

turn

upon

For

Poetry.

of

powers

of

his

the

intense.1

and

critic

characteristics

these

adjectives:

three

it all, the

of

think,

inevitably,

not

technique.

the

can,

of

the

account

of

meaning

methods.

Kipling's

and

the

the

with

of

by

of

much

variety,

the

confusion

in

evidence

staggered

the

to

analysis

an

himself

with

and

clew

no

after

stories, finds

and

bewildered

was

THE

PERIOD

FIRST

If

OF

can't

are

for

'old

this

no

good
drop

denned

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see,

world
to

it

in

if

so

wide

"

me,
I

tried.

Professor

W.

A.

Neilson

's

The

Essentials

KIPLING

112

qualities of Kipling's

These

much

too

not

is

Kim

at

outside.
is

Sheep

of

It is not

life.

He

of

later

stories

Suspicion,

Hate,
of

is

tales;

in

the

is not

He

dislikes, the

kind

College;

makes

much

was

but

to

Army

or

students

interest

clear,

The

its aim

Navy

or

were

scholars;

Balliol

training

in

ignorant

not

was

Civil
of
pure

wit
of

and

of

the

the

middle

as

classes

but

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give

but

did

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not

Kipling

master

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presently,

see

the

readin'

the

practical
for

out

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sarcastic
the

' '

an

solely

for

to

make

had

"

no

Latin,
and

book.
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crass

its

of

cent

taught

of

in

fact

per

or

who

and

preparation

set

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us

Services

Who.

of

sense

"villain"

"

is

Seventy-five

concerning

these

does

shall

we

scholar, inexcusably

boys, is the

same

of

United

the

general culture,

scholarship

the

the

begin with, purely

to

officers.

continually holding forth


brutality

was,

in

he

he

keen

already

Service.

King,

whatever.
man,

the

in

speak, Why

to

imagination,

the

college

sons

and

so

read

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but

bitter

early tastes, his likes

received

he

narrow

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longer

no

an

period

the

may

Company,

spectacled

his

nature,

cultivate

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purpose

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as

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deep

autobiography;

own

cultivate

to

more

future
in

he

his

and

the

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this

nature

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accurate

to

as

he

human

Despair."

and

manifestly

one

writing

clews

many

last

of

he

life, Stalky

school

Kipling

way.

jealousy;

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of

impression

side

unfriendly

safely regarded

be

own

seamy

and

all of Baa

that

it may

Kipling's

religiosity, hypocrisy,
waters

assumed

real

the

of

found

Kipling

parents

with

and

's illustrations

latter

his

haps
per-

artist

the

father,

of the

face

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saw

his

from

to

be

to

of

summary

his

face

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detail

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world

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STORY

THE

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marks.

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KIPLING

114

patriotism,

about

coining,

his

volunteer

time

Beetle's

him

the

Master

gave

scented

library without
mentions

list
classical
of

writers

Shakespeare
failed

or

of

vision
alike.
"

Beetle

"side"

of

of

suggestion

the

ignorance

of the

Indian

an

Beetle

face

to

had

wide

to

face

observe

what

the

the

contrast

of his

and

observation,
He

vivid

more

the

familiarity with

long

and

because

English
them

and

ago,

they

life of his
in

childhood.

bullies,

friends

the

the

brought

his

was

with

in

the

its vivid

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were

school
It

days,
was

of

him

side.

profession,

but

the

pounds

seamy

it

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become

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to

gullibility of

the

three

with

more

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susceptibility

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"

justice

pets.

to

paid

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for

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the

course

seventeen,

"

and

cowardice
'

clear

and

sarcasm,

peculiar

the

to

precision

clever

masters

passage

his

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STOSY

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pack,

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story

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men

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leader

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wolves

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him,

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stoned

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tells

had

village.

the

the

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met

of

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kill

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definitely placed.

tale

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alone.

hunt

foster-parents,

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the

led

and

destroy

beasts

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himself

out

treasure-vault.

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episode,

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death

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villagers,

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to

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But

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on

lead

to

the

to

the

to

the

Letting
Mowgli

return

back

went

wished

they

his

on

143

TECHNIQUE

of

the

be

regarded
division

of

divisions

the

of

less, than
whole,

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as

while

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whole

the

into

narrative

single episode,
others

are

con-

KIPLING

144

the

only by

nected
from

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Tiger!
And

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significant also

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incident.

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python

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requirements.

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follows.

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example,

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leading

stories

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fulfil, in

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out

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history of
of his
the
thus

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stories

twilight."
dipping
had

been

forgotten,

KIPLING

146

Intimate

animals,

association,
is

again,

situation

is

animals

THE

reversed.

of

For

permitted

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WEITEE

footing of equality, with

on

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is

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beasts.3

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147

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TECHNIQUE

TRANSITIONAL

to

and

the

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KIPLING

148

qualities.
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Kipling

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149

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TECHNIQUE

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150

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elaborates

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motives.

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present.

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tells
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characters

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view

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the

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than

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than

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Canterbury
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"

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mysterious

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Mowgli

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subtle

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no

and

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151

TECHNIQUE

TRANSITIONAL

IRE

his

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in

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rank

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Novastoshnah,

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stand

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friends.

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tale

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real

closely, and

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us,

masterpieces

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long

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WRITES

elements

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lingered

have

STORY

interest.

human

greater

those

on

ruin.

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THE

and

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even

Island,
to

Pardoner's

KIPLING

154

to

but

man,

imperfections.

human
as

at

little

here."

busy
"all

the

seas,

and

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the

of

satire

humored

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obvious
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seal, the

only

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order

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down
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of

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're

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wanderings

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good-

the

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significant thing

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bitterness

is

is

earlier

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of

the

his

village

general,

the

of

tales

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of the

and

friends

his

whole

only

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hermit,

warned

him

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by

one

one,

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that

slew

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so

in

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human

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holy
time

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reveal

'

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to

men,

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and

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family

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day 's work,

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part

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people;

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at

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WRITER

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STOEY

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structure

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limits

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insertion,

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fact

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between

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search
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unity

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of

days
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piece

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two

of

the

tales

must

be

thoroughly

Tiger!

Tiger!,

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as

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tales, finally, are

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tale,

story

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near

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tales

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how

down

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This

study

tells

floating

boat

Majesty's

Her

Six

Empire.

and

of

the

psychology,

the

story

and

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Came,

Ankus,

the

as

which

compression,

King's

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in

crocodile

he

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situation

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of

partakes

men,

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him.

shoots

man,

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to

type.

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a

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too

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latter

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of

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essentially

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independent

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structure.

island

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partakes, perhaps,

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epic

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by

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In

for

years

nature

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of

of

natural

the

over-run

scenes,

stories

the

Mowgli's

events,

many

biography,

through

the

to

Purun

of

nature

too

than

tone

perhaps,

stories, implies relatively inorganic


Jungle

of

perfect unity

more

155

TECHNIQUE

Kaa's

of

Hunting,
Quiquem,

Elephants,

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
All

of-fact

fifteen

methods,

crowding
distinct

in
scenes.

show

results

the

than

of concrete
The

the

of

of the

tales
incident

stories

are

imaginative,

more

early period.

there

is

longer,

more

and

less

matter-

There

is less

organization
being

at

the

into
same

136

time

less

It is

as

suit

KIPLING

THE

with

detail, the

packed
if

the

Kipling

short

had

absolutely uniform,
descents

to

shifts

from

as

the

It

is rather

of

explanation

as

well

have

at

Jungle

be

In

from

advance

is

of

with

man

side

earlier

is, with

which

emphasizes

in

ordinarily

are

word,
The

in

the

his

courtesy,

to

treatment

stories

reveal

to

is

animal
so

temper,

distinct

the

ideal

possession of

"hunger,

fixity of

as

purpose

in

the

he

qualities which

heroes, he

greed,"

ties,
quali-

stories

these
of

the

qualities

those

in

parison
com-

on

If,

extent

much

there

mainly

endowed.

peculiar

of

delicacy, in

unflattering

presence

the

these

concerned,

always

animals,

be

not

the

certain

the

in

in

ship,
workman-

show

falls, on
are

lower

sloth, predacity,
good

it is

beasts

animals

lower

supposed

cruelty, vanity,
courage,

the

insists,

them.

in

emphasis

the

with

the

stories

Interpretation

emphasizes

share

men

that

we

is willing

in

of

style,

Jungle

beasts, yet

which

stories, he

and

cynical realism

the

he

insistent

carefulness

preceded

Moral

old

the

agreeable
that

In

of

as

that

as

is necessary;

is less

evident

the

Yet,

Although

bit

improve

to

children.

explanation

tone

stories.

unintelligible, he

be

note

of

unity

work

far

so

something

more

in

anxiety

not

great

so

insert

to

to

marked

earlier

then

's.

is

tone

tone

the

an

of

no

in

general,

all the

Although,

in

and

to

personal

mannerism,

over

satire

Kipling

as

where

the

Books,

of

technical

so

restraint,

freedom

habit

explaining

explanations.
in

fixed

in

rapid.
pace

such

not

change

no

audience

an

his

are

now

pauses

entertain

to

is

less

headlong

though

instruction, betraying

this is

times

old

manner

bitter

to

Kipling

or

to

others, in

the

pathos

that

as

seen,
at

levels; there

prose

his

And
in

breaks

is much

movement

child.

the

WRITER

modified

here

of

steps

STORY

is not

men.

istic.
animal-

thirst, lust,

wisdom,

loyalty,

(as contrasted

THE

TRANSITIONAL

157

TECHNIQUE
.

with

Bandar-log),

the

in

is;

jungle,

that

in

Majesty's

Her

driver

his

on,

to

up

outlined

in

the

is the

of

whole

Now

But

and

The

adherence

Rukh,

with

the

his

which
real
heart

him

and

the

hump

relations
of

are,

and
of

prosaic

Jungle,

Seal

the

world

disposed,

It

be

obeys

the

creed

the

rhyme
be

to

ling's
Kip-

from

drawn

the

his

story,

creations
moreover,

in

and

of

Obey!

"

transition

or

from

whereas
from

that

the

have

of

animals,

under

Thus

mysterious

of

Quiquern,

of

places

to

insist less and

the

The

world

less

that

the

In

relations

Jungle
him

conditions

in

place of

Baloo

of the

and
White

further

are

real

the

romantic

and

Kipling

personae.
on

freer

reveal

Esquimau,

dramatis

the

the

Anglo-Indians,

the

from

his

and

wolf-pack.

and

in

world

the

and

example,

stories

imaginary.

may

of

and

Mowgli
the

period

realism

romance

reveals

place of
the

is

away

friends

we

Law

significant, for

is

world;

India,

Kaa

imaginative

so

Jungle,

second

drift

necessity, wholly

the

and

The

seems

to

the

direction

Jungle

with

and

and

of the

completely

Bagheera

is

of

the

Anglo-Indian

detach

Books

in

first

the

Book

the

they;

are

hoof

general

the

the

imagination.

the

the

in

as

of

mighty

and

haunch

fact,

to

of

play

and

head
the

up

in

McGoggin.

moral

and

lieutenant,"

as

do.

men

as

general, who

Jungle

Laws

general tendencies

summed

involved,

man

driver,

Empress,"

Aurelian

principal

the

are

many

the

his

the

Second

the

his

the

these

and

of

of

his

obeys

obeys

of

the

he

law

of

law

said, "obey

sergeant

servant

of

summary
as

the

Conversion

The

beginning

work

and

brigadier, "who

who

it is

who,

the

To

is the

bullock,

or

law.

to

story

one

Servants;

sergeant,
the

Viceroy,

be

only

horse, elephant,

Mule,

at

obedience

or

natural

KIPLING

158

of

qualities
that

still

speak,

his

of

the

time,

the

in

past,

ventures

in

Again,

upon

he

significant

to

so

machinery,
departs

now

imaginative

an

extremely

the

descends,

romance

ships.

so

more,

tion
reconstruc-

Story

Finest

in

World.

evidence,

is

There

of

imagination

Zodiac,

and

marked

by

And

tales,

obvious

this

way

goes

personal

in

the

in

addition

interest

new

effort

new

in

too,

marchen,

manner.

Jungle

in

novelties

two

or

and

He

finds

of

and

more

play.

beasts,

personification

the

own

the

them

free

has

than

WEITEE

idealize

to

imagination

lower

begins

from

characters,

also

here

and

his

STORY

THE

tale

hit

to

general,

note,

in

the

and

hold

with

the

slower

the

There

Children

are

children,
of

level

style
of

movement

and

the

of

for

restraint,

refinement

greater

form.

certain

of

play

told

greater

freer

The

marvelous

to

artistry,

greater

of

matters

allegory,
of

this

to

the

less

far

of

delicacy

treatment.

Realism,
the

and

of

permit
Form.

then,
intervention

the

insistence

of

corresponding

the

on

author

growth

fact,

observed

the

in

his

in

own

person,

Imagination

and

sity,
Inten-

diminish,
and

Sense

PAET

ENGLISH

THE

with

Kipling
South

he

his

Africa.

took

of

sailed

his

with

attacked

by

feared

that

fallen

six,

terminated

June.

In

family
which

cold

the

He

continues

has

published

to

The

live

Actions

(1901-1904),
and

Reactions

at

Day's

(1897-1900),
Discoveries

in

work

Just

the

the

field

of

So

Stories

of

Puck

(1909),

and

Pook's

Rewards

in

period

Stalky

and

he

pany
Com-

and

and

Traffics
Hill

the

tendency."
this

(1897-1903),

aged

''for

idealistic

(1894-1898),

Work

was

England

Prize

During

Rottingdean.

elder,

to

Nobel

was

daughters

two

the

returned

awarded

was

he

It

his

for

he

1899,

pneumonia.

which

family

The

tion
inten-

York

New

1898,

the

January,

Meantime

disease,

fatally.

distinguished

most

into

recover.

same

Kipling

In

developed

not

with

1907

America.

of

with

In

home.

in

1897-1898

spring

the

Brighton,

near

to

of

in

England

to

permanent

might

he

ill

had

his

it

winter

the

spent

Rottingdean,

at

making

PERIOD

family

Returning

house

THREE

(1905-1906),
Fairies

(1910).

CHAPTER

VI

SETTINGS

THE

In

with

third

the
1910

Yet

it

achievement,
been

back

empire
I

when

half

to

think,

to

India.

the

sea;

is

geography

is

again

all

the

and

of

all

by

accuracy
to

'

him

'

bubbling

follow

next
two

green
two

examining
must

ruined

up

line

faint

houses

field
the

fringed
;

then

brook
the

through
closes

of
with

by

of

deal

the

old
wild

Lost

or

then,

is

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VII

CHARACTERS

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188

prince, overhearing

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190

Brushwood
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191

PSYCHOLOGY

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194

KIPLING

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KIPLING

196

within

view

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WRITES

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172,

211.

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137.

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