Rikki-tikki-tavi

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.