



Produced by Judith Boss





THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF RUDYARD KIPLING

By Rudyard Kipling

VOLUME XI.

1889-1896





CONTENTS

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BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

1889-1891



TO WOLCOTT BALESTIER
  Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled --


     BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS


To T. A.
  I have made for you a song,

DANNY DEEVER
  "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.

TOMMY
  I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,

"FUZZY-WUZZY"
  We've fought with many men acrost the seas,

SOLDIER, SOLDIER
  "Soldier, soldier come from the wars,

SCREW-GUNS
  Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,

CELLS
  I've a head like a concertina:  I've a tongue like a button-stick:

GUNGA DIN
  You may talk o' gin and beer

OONTS
  Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire?

LOOT
  If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back,

"SNARLEYOW"
  This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps,

THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR
  'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor?

BELTS
  There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,

THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER
  When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East,

MANDALAY
  By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin