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[The author of this article sent a copy of the MSS to Rudyard Kipling, and received in reply a char- acteristic letter, of which this is a /oc simile.] *

"There is none like to me!" says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;

But the Jungle is large, and the Cub he is small,

Let him think and be still.

Hathi the wild elephant, never does anything till the time comes, and that is one of the reasons why he lives so long.

One of the beauties of the Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterwards.

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm tKrough ignorance. (The sheltered life system, foundrno exponent in o