Rikki-tikki-tavi

[tikific]

Don't know why Jungle Book references have been popping up in my stuff lately, but it's all public domain, and I just found a full text link to one of my favorite chapters, Rikki-tikki-tavi. (I was googling to make sure I had the spelling right.)

If you write, this stuff is really worth reading (or re-reading). Kipling had a rare gift to make things very simple but still evocative. I'd pay Skwisgaar's million billion dollars to be able to write that way.

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[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Kipling wrote this book, or longish short story, that was told from the point of view of a dog named Boots. Our friend Warlord searched long and hard for that, and sent me a link a few years ago--and it was amazing. I can't think of the title, but it was pretty cool--Boots is owned by this officer dude, who then hooks up with a lady who owns a dog of the same breed named Slippers, and it's about their lives and their trials and tribulations with the cat, and the other dogs they know, include a possibly psychic hunting hound. Very cool stuff!

[tikific.livejournal.com]

Yay for intarnets, that I do not have to search for years. It is "Thy Servant a Dog," and it's pretty cool and crazy!

http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/ThyServantADog/servantdog.html

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

That's it!! Oh, god, I love that story. I love how he writes in the half-English that the dog speaks, and he maintains that for the WHOLE FRIGGIN' STORY. (Hey! Kipling invented the LOLdog before there were LOLcats!)

Thank you!!! Bookmarkage!

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Haven't read that story since I was a kid - thanks! I think I first saw it in some anthology of animal stories, although I did read Jungle Book at one point in time.