A Kipling Snake Story.
When Mr Kipling reached London trom India in his search for fame and fortune he loaged in some small rooms in Vilhers street, Strand, up two flights of stairs. One morning a friend called, and when he found himself in Rudyard Kipling's sitting room he was surprised to see a handsome mirror which stood over the fireplace "smashed to smithereens." ''.Snakes " said Kipling, noticing the look of astonishment on his friend's face " I \ was dozing in my chair yesterday eyen- . ing, and my foot slipped out of my shoe, which for comfort 1 had unlaced Half waking, I felt with my foot for the shoe, and began slipping it in when my toea touched the leather tongue. Snakes flashed across mv sleepy brain, l fiave one desperate kick, and when the shoe struck ihat mirror I realised that 1 was in London and not in India."—Daily ISews
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6709, 30 May 1900, Page 4
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151A Kipling Snake Story. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6709, 30 May 1900, Page 4
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