Latrator's frst use of that pen-name way tu the "Civil and Military Gesette" this special article' by him on Rudyard Kipling hae @ personal interest, Readers of "Kim" will*recall the Character of the curator of the museum at Lahore outside the door of which Zam-Zammah stood. That curator was in fact, J. Lockwood Kipling the ilustrater of "Kim" and the father of its author. tle one day old the Editor of" the "Civil and Military Gazette that his young: son Rudyard, aged 17 was reluming' India—he had been born in Bombay—from Westward Ho, where he had finished his education, as "Staley Ca." later' bore witness, The Editor Agreed to take the young man on th" staff of the paper as a reporter and sub-editor, "In this junior position Rudyard Kipling (ook advantage of hi father's deep knowledge of Indin to break away from the routine of station fe. He made friends with the sold-lets at the Fort, he was irrepressibly outspoken in hig comments at the old Punjab Club and he generally proved an uncomfortable member of the AnglocIndian (old style) society. fact, tolding forth in the Club' one day, on the self-sumMeieney of the official of the Indian Civil Service, he was violently attacked by a yours and enthusiastic Irish civilian named Michael O'Dwyer. Friends separated. the {wo in time {0 preserve the future poet of Empire from being' thrown down the stairs. Many years later Sir Michael O'Dwyer, as Licutenant= Governor of the Punjab, unveiled tablet on the offices of the "Civil Miltary Gazette" in memory of the fact that "Rudyard: Kipling worked ere from 1882 10 1
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