This week's quiz: Rudyard Kipling

[David Robertson]

('I don't know if I like Kipling,' as the old joke goes, 'but I'd very
much like to try some day.')

S'doaks was the son of Yelth the wise --
Chief of the Raven clan.
Itswoot the Bear had him in care
To make him a medicine-man.
He was quick and quicker to learn --
Bold and bolder to dare:
He danced the dread Kloo-Kwallie Dance
To tickle Itswoot the Bear!
	--Kipling, "Oregon Legend"

This week's quiz is:  How many of the non-English words in this poem can
you identify and explain to the group?

A tip of the hat to the _Journal of the Oregon Historical Society_, volume
36, number 4, December 1935, pages 384 and 385, and especially to Lewis A.
McArthur.

For more on Kipling in the Northwest, please see, for example, "From Sea
to Sea; Letters of Travel" (The Works of Rudyard Kipling, volume 2);
published in New York by Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.  His
subsequent conversation with Mark Twain is naturally priceless.

Klahowyam,
Dave



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