RUDYARD KIPLING.
An old pressman tplls an amusing story of Kipling coming to Auckland in the early nineties. Certain of 'the newspaper men of that day went the railway station )to welcome Rudyard on his arrival in our Qn®® n ' City, and extend the glad- hand. The great man, glasses and all, stepped, out of his carriage, and a venerable scribe (long dead) advanced with: “On behali of (the journalists and citizens of Auckland,, we— —■*’ and there he came to a full stop. But let the old pressman tell the rest of the story in his own words : Kipling pushed past us, stubby of face and evidently rusty in temper, and rubbing his chin, as he made rush for a hansom, said: “Oh, d n it, let me get a shave first. That was the first and last I saw of him.” Allowances must be made for R.K._ X had come from Rotorua ‘express”—a fearsome journey '• now, and worse them
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 682, 8 November 1921, Page 4
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160RUDYARD KIPLING. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 682, 8 November 1921, Page 4
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