Identifier: kiplingsindia00muns 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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Text Appearing After Image: Copyright by H. C. White Company, N. Y. BY THE OLD MOULMEIXPAGODA Copyright by H. C. White Company, X. Y. THE TIXKLY TEMPLEBELLS For the temple-lxlls are callin, an its then that I would be—By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy a1the sea. —Mandalay ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY sun. Then the forest trees crowd close to the edge ofthe stream; bright-plumaged birds flutter among thebranches; green monkeys gambol on the river banks;and farther back in the quiet depths the wild elephant,the rhinoceros, and the tiger have their haunts. Afeature of peculiar charm in the scenery of the Irra-waddy is the frequent occurrence of flowering trees,whose boughs, laden with blossoms or leaves of crimsonor scarlet or gold, shine through the rich green of thewoodland with splendid effect. In *The Taking of Lungtungpen* (Plain Tales fromthe Hills), Mulvaney, with Lieutenant Brazenose and hismen, stripped and swam the Irrawaddy River that darknight when, not having time to dress again, theycaptured the

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