Identifier: kiplingsindia00muns (find matches)
Title: Kipling's India
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Munson, Arley Isabel, 1871-
Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 India -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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wasso soon to become his own, nasty and cold—horribly (47) KIPLING S INDIA cold. This cemetery is the cool rest-house down theglen, of Possibilities, >> His place forgets him; other men Have bought his ponies, guns, and traps.His fortune is the Great Perhaps And that cool rest-house down the glen, Whence he shall hear, as spirits may,Our mundane revel on the height.Shall watch each flashing rickshaw-light Sweep on to dinner, dance, and play. A Ballad of Burial tells of a plainsmans longingto be carried after death to that little cemetery atSimla: I could never stand the Plains. Think of blazing June and May,Think of those September rains Yearly till the Judgment Day!I should never rest in peace, I should sweat and lie awake.Rail me then, on my decease. To the Hills for old sakes sake. The cemetery is mentioned again in An Old Song asthose grim glades below, Where heedless of the flying hoof And clamour overhead.Sleep, with the grey langur for guard Our very scornful Dead.(48)
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Cii;. M-^li I , 1 iilrrwood tt Underwood, N V. SIMLA —THE LOWER BAZAAR Tlie Simla home of Mahl)ub Ali (/vzm) . . . the crowdedrabbit-warren that climbs vip to the Town Hall at an angle offorty-five. A man who knows his way there can defy all thepohce of Indias summer capital, so cunningly does verandacommunicate with veranda, alley-way with alley-way, andbolt-hole with bolt-hole. Here live grocers, oil-sellers, curio-venders, fire-wood dealers, priests, pickpockets, and nativeemployees of the Government; here are discussed by courtesansall the things which are supposed to be profoundest secrets ofthe India Council; and here gather all the sub-sub-agents ofhalf the native States ANGLO-INDIA The Himalayan-Thibet Road, which leads off fromthe Jakko Road is no more than six feet wide in most places, and the drop into thevalley below may be anything between one and two thousand feet. It was along this path that the Tertiam Quid rode tohis ghastly fate. In Chota Simla, only a short distan

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