famine-relief

Updated: May 11, 2025

'Just when I wanted to take leave, too! said a voice across the room. 'There won't be much leave this year, but there ought to be a great deal of promotion. I've come in to persuade the Government to put my pet canal on the list of famine-relief works. It's an ill-wind that blows no good. I shall get that canal finished at last.

Rudyard Kipling - Life's Handicap

Then my cab-driver showed me business blocks gay with signs and studded with fantastic and absurd advertisements of goods, and looking down the long street so adorned, it was as though each vender stood at his door howling: "For the sake of my money, employ or buy of me, and me only!" Have you ever seen a crowd at a famine-relief distribution?

Rudyard Kipling - American Notes