This week's quiz: Rudyard Kipling

[Jeffrey Kopp]

The poem appears in Kipling's 1901 novel, "Kim," at the top of
Chapter 9.  Its entire text is available at
http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/kipling/kim/index.html

Many of Kipling's other poems are available at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2012/poems/poem-kl.html

(Couldn't locate a copy of "From Sea to Sea" on-line, unfortunately,
though several of the included works might be around separately.)

Well, back to the grind, I'm playing hooky from my homework.

Regards,

Jeff


On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:38:14 -0800, you wrote:

>('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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