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When fillers were needed for the paper, Kipling wrote them: verse (Departmental Ditties) or prose (Plain Tales from the Hills). Other Indian papers began to buy his stuff; soon there were half a dozen paperbacked books signed Kipling on Indian railway bookstalls. By now Kipling had some money saved up...
Many a U. S. schoolboy knows that Kipling looked like a big-browed, jut-jawed Groucho Marx; but few people anywhere would recognize a picture of his wife. Kipling married a Vermont girl, Caroline Balestier, but readers of Something of Myself are led to infer that she could hardly be...
Kipling was in South Africa when the Boer War began, and he stayed through it, enjoyed himself hugely. Very popular with the troops, he raised quarter of a million pounds for them from the royalties of some popular verses (The Absent-Minded Beggar). Very British about the Boers, he recalls...
To Kipling at 70, looking back over his career, it seemed that every card in it "had been dealt me in such a manner that I had but to play it as it came." True, he had wanted to write a big novel-something "worthy to lie alongside The Cloister...
*The famed but unpublishable ballad, The Bastard King of England, generally credited to Kipling, is supposed to have cost him the post of Poet Laureate.