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                   The Riverside Literature Series


                      Kipling Stories and Poems

                       Every Child Should Know


                               BOOK II


                  _From Rudyard Kipling's The Seven

                      Seas, The Days Work, Etc._



                              EDITED BY

           MARY E. BURT AND W. T. CHAPIN, PH.D. (Princeton)





              BOSTON  NEW YORK   CHICAGO  SAN FRANCISCO

                       HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

                    The Riverside Press Cambridge





         COPYRIGHT, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898,
               1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1909

                          BY RUDYARD KIPLING


                COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY WOLCOTT BALESTIER

         COPYRIGHT, 1892, 1893, 1895, BY MACMILLAN & COMPANY

           COPYRIGHT, 1893, 1905, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY

      COPYRIGHT, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1898, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY

                COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

          COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY


                        PUBLISHED, APRIL, 1909


                         The Riverside Press

                      CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS

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CONTENTS


                                                 PAGE

Biographical Sketch--Charles Eliot Norton         vii


PART IV

(_Continued from Book I, Riverside Literature
    Series, No. 257_)

IV.   Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (from "Under
        the Deodars," etc.)                       143

V.    Wee Willie Winkie (from "Under the
        Deodars," etc.)                           188

VI.   The Dove of Dacca (from "Departmental
        Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room
        Ballads")                                 205

VII.  The Smoke upon Your Altar Dies
        (from "Departmental Ditties and
        Ballads and Barrack-room Ballads")        207

VIII. Recessional (from "The Five Nations")       208

IX.   L'Envoi (from "The Seven Seas")             210


PART V

I.    The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
        (from "Just So Stories")                  213

II.   Fuzzy Wuzzy  (from "Departmental
        Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room
        Ballads")                                 222

III.  The English Flag (from "Departmental
      Ditties and Ballads and
      Barrack-room Ballads")                      225

IV.   The King (from "The Seven Seas")            231

V.    To the Unknown Goddess (from "Departmental
        Ditties and Ballads and
        Barrack-room Ballads")                    234

VI.   The Galley Slave (from "Departmental
        Ditties and Ballads and
        Barrack-room Ballads")                    235

VII.  The Ship That Found Herself (from
        "The Day's Work")                         238


PART VI

I.    A Trip Across a Continent (from
        "Captains Courageous")                    267

II.   The Children of the Zodiac (from
        "Many Inventions")                        274

III.  The Bridge Builders (from "The
        Day's Work")                              299

IV.   The Miracles (from "The Seven Seas")        351

V.    Our Lady of the Snows (from "The
        Five Nations")                            353

VI.   The Song of the Women (from "The
        Naulahka")                                356

VII.  The White Man's Burden (from "The
        Five Nations")                            359

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY RUDYARD KIPLING


Initial for "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"   213

A picture of Old Man Kangaroo when he was
the Different Animal with four short legs         215

Old Man Kangaroo at five in the afternoon,
when he had got his beautiful hind legs
just as Big God Nqong had promised                217

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A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

BY CHARLES EL