half-dutchman

Updated: May 18, 2025

There was Keller, of an American paper, on his way back to the States from palace executions in Madagascar; there was a burly half-Dutchman, called Zuyland, who owned and edited a paper up country near Johannesburg; and there was myself, who had solemnly put away all journalism, vowing to forget that I had ever known the difference between an imprint and a stereo advertisement.

Rudyard Kipling - The Kipling Reader: Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling