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989:Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
73:McGivering, John (12 October 2006).
1020:Rudyard Kipling: A Remembrance Tale
761:The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
1163:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
719:The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
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901:The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
558:The Gods of the Copybook Headings
1215:Short stories by Rudyard Kipling
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1046:Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling
460:The Ballad of the 'Clampherdown'
20:" is a short story or fable by
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782:The Drums of the Fore and Aft
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434:A Choice of Kipling's Verse
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852:The Man Who Would Be King
537:The Female of the Species
957:Yoked with an Unbeliever
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453:The Absent-Minded Beggar
402:The Fringes of the Fleet
205:The Story of the Gadsbys
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824:In the House of Suddhoo
984:Indian Railway Library
887:The Rescue of Pluffles
694:The White Man's Burden
437:(by T. S. Eliot, 1941)
331:All the Mowgli Stories
307:The Second Jungle Book
79:Kipling reader's guide
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1094:Georgiana Burne-Jones
1070:John Lockwood Kipling
733:Bread upon the Waters
593:The King's Pilgrimage
315:Letting in the Jungle
142:The Light That Failed
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915:Three and – an Extra
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418:Limits and Renewals
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929:Thrown Away
645:Recessional
638:My Boy Jack
544:Fuzzy-Wuzzy
530:A Death-Bed
339: 1895
181:Collections
84:12 December
1204:Categories
1057:(daughter)
796:False Dawn
789:Fairy-Kist
666:Submarines
994:Iron Ring
831:Kidnapped
565:Gunga Din
516:Dane-geld
509:Cold Iron
60:Footnotes
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1073:(father)
950:Wireless
614:Mandalay
1129:(uncle)
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967:Related
845:Lispeth
322:Red Dog
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680:Tommy
502:Boots
445:Poems
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