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Updated: May 2, 2025
Kipling in his Sabbath moods, it was with what we may call his Saturday night moods that he first won the enthusiasm of the young men. They loved him for his bad language long before he had ever preached a sermon or written a leading article in verse.
How many of us who love the sea and have followed it to greater or less extent in the way of business or pleasure have in the past echoed those famous lines of Rudyard Kipling: "'Good-bye Romance! the skipper said. He vanished with the coal we burn."
In this particular instance I was the exception to the rule, that hair generally gives a boy no great trouble from the time he merges out of babyhood until he puts on long pants and begins to discern something strangely and subtly attractive about the sex described by Mr. Kipling as being the more deadly of the species.
The newspapers have lately been making large quotations from the poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling. They might, if they had been so minded, have laid under similar contribution the Revelation of St. John the Divine.
"Not always was the Kangaroo as now we behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs." From "Old Man Kangaroo": "Just So Stories," Rudyard Kipling. "Whichever way I turn," said the weather-cock on a high steeple, "no one is satisfied." From "Fire-side Fables," Edwin Barrow. "A set of chessmen, left standing on their board, resolved to alter the rules of the game." From the same source.
As one of them said to Rudyard Kipling when he was down visiting them, "What were trees for if they were not to be cut down?" Towards the middle of December, one evening there was a sharp tap on the tent of Capt. "Come in" he cried. The laces were undone and Sergeant Kipple stepped into the tent. The Sergeant was a good man an old soldier and reliable as the proverbial watch.
And so it goes in Colombo. Each day presents a picture not to be adequately described by a less gifted writer than Kipling. Colombo is the westermost town of that great division of Asia wherein subject races black, brown and yellow haul the white man in jinrickshaws. No institution of the East stamps the superiority of the European more than this menial office of the native.
Kipling was original, and his tricks of manner, often irritating, and his deplorable views of human society, were usually carried off by his genius for observation, and the spontaneity of the drama of his stories. But when his story was thin, and he was wandering in an excursion with his childish philosophy, he was usually facetious.
Means something to you." "Oh, hold on! I'm floundering beyond my depth! Help! help!" Azalea put her hands over her ears and shook her head, laughing at Van Reypen's earnest face as he racked his brain for further explanatory phrases. "I won't stop! I'm in earnest. I want to matter to mean something to you! I want to count with you " "Kipling says, 'let all men count with you, and none too much."
Of course we know from Kipling that that means, 'You'd better bunk, and be sharp about it, so we came away. I do like Albert's uncle. I shall be like that when I'm a man. He gave us our Jungle books, and he is awfully clever, though he does have to write grown-up tales. We told Father about it that night. He was very kind.
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