Poems of Rudyard Kipling (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

I~ thc old fairy tales the cradles of new-born infants
were visited by beneficent beings who granted special
gifts of fortune, beauty, t..llent, though sometimes a
jealoUs hag would slink in and by a malevolent cotlntereharm
try to spoil the bright future. Such things ha.ve
long ago ceased in commonplace Engla.nd, but it is differ~
ont in India; and ',,-e can hardly help believing that the
po,,,-er of understanding the speech of animals and birds
is still occasionally conferred on fortunate morta.ls', Else
110W can onc explain "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," and" Tomai
of the Elephants"?
Fortunate for special pUl'poses is the man of one race
and language who is born amid tIle men of a.nother, ami
thus inherits two tongues and the knowledge of two
peoples.
Such was the good fortune of Rudyard Kipling, and
it is not a mere legend that, on meeting with Indian
elephants amid the t.awdry surroundings of an American
circus, ho was able to talk and undel'stand the mystic
la.ngu

Table of Contents

BARRACK-ROOM nAI,LADS; PAGII; O,lDQ)" Doo""'er , 1; "Tommy" , , 5; " Fuzzy V'uzzy It ••••••••••••••••• , • •• • • ••• • • • • • • • • • •• • • 9; 0011 ts I 110 f • • • • • • ·13; wot~ eo , t , • 18; Soldier, Soluier 4 , ',' , 'f • • • • 23; The Sons of the 'Vidow 26; Troopin' ~ , 29; G unga Din • • • • • 3~; lI[andalay •• , • • • • • • • 38; The Young Briti!>

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.