Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1901 — A Kipling Story. [ARTICLE]

A Kipling Story.

As a preface to his attack upon the recent army appointments in England Rudyard Kipling tells a stcry of a man who was carrying a bag and of whom a fellow traveler asked what it was that the bag contained. “Mongooses,” was the answer. “My brother sees snakes, and I’m taking the mongooses up to kill them.” “But vour brother doesn’t see real snales?” “No; but these aren’t real mongooses.”