Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling

                                       You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An’ you’ll lick [...]

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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Halfway through Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling’s half-pint hero Harvey has “another mystery of the sea to brood upon.” After falling out of an ocean liner Harvey Cheyne is thrown into a foreign environment. Much like Kipling’s Jungle Book, which I have not read and like Kim, which I have read, Captains Courageous poses the reader [...]

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