The Riverside Literature Series Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know BOOK II From Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas, The Days Work, Etc. EDITED BY MARY E. BURT and W. T. CHAPIN, Ph.D. (Princeton) MARY E. BURT and W. T. CHAPIN, Ph.D. BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1909 BY RUDYARD KIPLING COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY WOLCOTT BALESTIER COPYRIGHT, 1892, 1893, 1895, BY MACMILLAN & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1893, 1905, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1898, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY HARPER & BROTHERS COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHED, APRIL, 1909 The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE ยท MASSACHUSETTS CONTENTS Part IV Part V Part VI ILLUSTRATIONS BY RUDYARD KIPLING [vii] [vii] A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON