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COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS
COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY MACMILLAN AND CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY RUDYARD KIPLING
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REVISED, APRIL, 1899

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY RUDYARD KIPLING

THE FIVE NATIONS AND THE SEVEN SEAS
COPYRIGHT, 1903

BY RUDYARD KIPLING

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Army Head-Quarters

Ahasuerus Jenkins of the 'Operatic Own'

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Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink

Potiphar Gubbins, C. E., stands at the top of

the tree

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Delilah

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Delilah Aberyswith was a lady-not too young

A Legend of the Foreign Office

Rustum Beg of Kolazai-slightly backward Na-

Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep

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