The Portable Kipling

Table Of Contents

The Portable Kipling – Edited by Irving Howe Editor’s Introduction
Chronology with Dates of Major Publications
I. Stories
STORIES OF INDIA
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Man Who Would Be King
Without Benefit of Clergy
Lispeth
The Head of the District
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
The Story of Muhammad Din
Jews in Shushan

SOLDIERS’ TALES
The Courting of Dinah Shadd
On Greenhow Hill
Black Jack

FROM THE JUNGLE BOOKS
Toomai of the Elephants
The King’s Ankus

FROM JUST SO STORIES
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
The Cat That Walked by Himself

ENTERTAINMENTS
The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat
Brugglesmith
Brother Square-Toes
“A Priest in Spite of Himself”

HISTORICAL STORIES
The Church That Was at Antioch
The Eye of Allah

UTOPIAN/ANTIUTOPIAN
As Easy as A.B.C.

LATE STORIES
Mrs. Bathurst
Friendly Brook
The Wish House
Mary Postgate
The Gardener
Dayspring Mishandled
II. Poems
L’Envoi
The Broken Men
McAndrew’s Hymn
The “Mary Gloster”
The Last Chantey
The Long Trail
The Gipsy Trail
The Last of the Light Brigade
The Settler
My Boy Jack
The Vampire
When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted
The Holy War
France
Mesopotamia
The Veterans
The White Man’s Burden
Recessional
“For All We Have and Are”
The Benefactors
The Craftsman
“When ‘Omer Smote ‘Is Bloomin’ Lyre”
Epitaphs of the War
Danny Deever
Tommy
Gunga Din
The Widow at Windsor
Mandalay
Private Ortheris’s Song
Shillin’ a Day
That Day
The Ladies
The Sergeant’s Weddin’
Chant-Pagan
Piet
The Return
“Cities and Thrones and Powers”
The Recall
The Way Through the Woods
Sir Richard’s Song
A Charm
Cold Iron
The Waster
Harp Song of the Dane Women
A St. Helena Lullaby
The Fabulists
A Pict Song
MacDonough’s Song
The Heritage
Mowgli’s Song Against People
Song of the Galley-Slaves
The Roman Centurion’s Song
Dane-geld
Norman and Saxon
Edgehill Fight
The Dutch in the Medway
III. Essays
Literature
An Interview with Mark Twain
My Great and Only