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There are twenty posts in The Copy Book credited to Rudyard Kipling. (In the case of some authors, the list may include translations and paraphrases.)

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1

The Water Truce

By Rudyard Kipling

The animals in the jungle agree that amidst the drought, the sport of hunter and hunted has to be suspended.

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Posted November 7 2024

2

Our England is a Garden

By Rudyard Kipling

There is plenty of work in the garden of England for everyone, whether he has a green thumb or not.

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Posted June 26 2024

3

Thus Was the Empire Born

By Rudyard Kipling

According to Kipling, the British Empire was the last resort of Englishmen who could not stand conditions at home.

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Posted April 19 2024

4

Dane-Geld

By Rudyard Kipling

Three years before the Great War, Rudyard Kipling recalled how one English king simply paid his bullying neighbours to stay at home.

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Posted December 18 2022

5

The Phantom Rickshaw

By Rudyard Kipling

Jack Pansay has just bought an engagement ring for the bewitching Kitty Mannering, yet to his annoyance it is the late Mrs Wessington he is thinking about.

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Posted August 7 2021

6

‘Kings in Our Own Right’

By Rudyard Kipling

Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.

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Posted April 2 2021

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