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Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press, C.E.K.
Posted to Wiretap in July 1993, as jungle.rk.
This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
New York, The Century Co., 1899
© 1893,1894, by RUDYARD KIPLING
©, 1894, by HARPER and BROTHERS
© 1893,1894, by THE CENTURY CO.
THE DE VINNE PRESS
Now Chil, the Kite, brings home the night
That Mang, the Bat, sets free --
The herds are shut in byre and hut,
For loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power,
Talon and tush and claw.
Oh, hear the call! -- Good hunting all
That keep the Jungle Law!
Night-Song in the Jungle.
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| Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) |
Darren Dowling
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Rudyard Joseph Kipling was a writer born of British parents
in Bombay, India. He was educated at boarding school in England
and returned to India in 1882 where he worked as a journalist.
His satirical verses and short stories, such as Plain Tales
From the Hills (1888) and Soldiers Three (1892), won him a
reputation in England, to which he returned in 1889 and settled
in London.
Rudyard Kipling
His verse collections Barrack Room Ballads (1892) and The
Seven Seas (1896) were highly successful, as were the two
Jungle Books (1894-5), which have become classic animal stories.
Kim appeared in 1901, and the classic Just So Stories in 1902.
Later works include Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and the autobiographical
Something of Myself (1937).
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907
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| Kipling and Scouting |
Darren Dowling
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Rudyard Kipling
Baden-Powell needed an concept around which to build the
scouting program for wolf cubs (as they were then). The original
Jungle Book was written in 1894. It was originally published
in chapter form in the American children's magazine, Saint
Nicholas. Kipling was also the author of "The Scout's
Patrol Song" which was the official Boy Scouts of America
song. Part I of the 1908 booklet, "Scouting For Boys"
included a condensed version of Kipling's Kim. He was also
the father of a Scout and later a comissioner in the British
Scouting program.. In 1924, he attended a rally of 6 thousand
Wolf Cubs at the Imperial Jamboree at Wembley where he witnessed
what Baden-Powell had made of his writings.. Jungle Book and
Cub Scouting
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