SHAM KIPLING.
NEW YORK MAGISTRATE TELLS HIM HE IS A POOR POET AND SENDS HIM TO' PRISON.
A miserable creature charged at Bloomsfield (New Jersey) with drunkenness declared his name was Kipling, Rudyard Kipling. He went oni ‘ ‘l pray the good magistrate to admonish me, and I’ll go back to England and my verselets.” , Asked if he was any relation to the real Rudyard Kipling, the man replieo : My writings made me famous Till others stole my name, But I would have you understand I’m Kipling just the same. “Where do you really live?” uemanded the magistrate, and the defendant promptly rejoined: My home is on the ocean blue, I tell you this because it’s true. I’ve tried at times to mend my ways,
But suppose I’m good for thirty days. “That’s enough for once,” said the magistrate, “you are a mighty poor poet, but a good guesser. Thirty days for Rudyard.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3282, 29 July 1911, Page 9
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152SHAM KIPLING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3282, 29 July 1911, Page 9
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