Departmental Ditties and other verses

by

Rudyard Kipling

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2009

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Table of Contents

Departmental Ditties

  1. General Summary
  2. Army Headquarters
  3. Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink
  4. Potiphar Gubbins, C. E.,
  5. A Legend
  6. The Story of Uriah
  7. The Post That Fitted
  8. Public Waste
  9. Delilah
  10. What Happened
  11. Pink Dominoes
  12. The Man Who Could Write
  13. Municipal
  14. A Code of Morals
  15. The Last Department
  16. The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House
  17. As the Bell Clinks
  18. An Old Song
  19. Certain Maxims of Hafiz
  20. The Grave of the Hundred Head
  21. The Moon of Other Days
  22. The Overland Mail
  23. What the People Said
  24. The Undertaker’s Horse
  25. The Fall of Jock Gillespie
  26. Arithmetic on the Frontier
  27. The Betrothed
  28. A Tale of Two Cities

Ballads

  1. The Ballad of East and West
  2. The Last Suttee
  3. The Ballad of the King’s Mercy
  4. The Ballad of the King’s Jest
  5. The Ballad of Boh Da Thone
  6. The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief
  7. The Rhyme of the Three Captains
  8. The Ballad of the Clampherdown
  9. The Ballad of the “Bolivar”
  10. The English Flag
  11. “Cleared”
  12. An Imperial Rescript
  13. Tomlinson

Barrack-Room Ballads

  1. Dedication
  2. Danny Deever
  3. Tommy
  4. Fuzzy-Wuzzy
  5. Soldier, Soldier
  6. Screw-Guns
  7. Gunga Din
  8. Oonts
  9. Loot
  10. ‘Snarleyow’
  11. The Widow at Windsor
  12. Belts
  13. The Young British Soldier
  14. Mandalay
  15. Troopin’
  16. Ford O’ Kabul River
  17. Route Marchin’

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