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Subject: quotation by Kipling
Category: Arts and Entertainment
Asked by: ignatz-ga
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Posted: 30 May 2004 09:00 PDT
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Question ID: 353870
How to find end of a quotation by Rudyard Kipling?
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Subject: Re: quotation by Kipling
Answered By: pinkfreud-ga on 31 May 2004 15:22 PDT
 
Here is the Kipling verse that you seek:

"Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel. 
 But, once in a way, there will come a day 
 When the colt must be taught to feel 
 The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, 
 And the sting of the rowelled steel."

This verse prefaces the story "The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin,"
which is Chapter 13 of Kipling's "Plain Tales from the Hills."

World Wide School: Chapter XIII, The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
http://www.worldwideschool.com/library/books/lit/shortstories/PlainTalesfromtheHills/chap13.html

When I'm seeking a complete quotation from a fragment, I usually begin
my search by choosing a representative sample as a search string. In
this case, I selected the line "when the colt must be taught to feel,"
which led me to the source material that provided the rest of the
verse.

Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: "when the colt must be taught to feel"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22when+the+colt+must+be+taught+to+feel

I hope this helps. If anything is unclear, please request
clarification; I'll gladly offer further assistance before you rate my
answer.

Best regards,
pinkfreud
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Subject: Re: quotation by Kipling
From: apteryx-ga on 30 May 2004 11:49 PDT
 
What's the beginning of it?  Put what you have into Google, maybe just
the keywords you're absolutely sure of, and see what happens.

Apteryx
(not a researcher)
Subject: Re: quotation by Kipling
From: ignatz-ga on 31 May 2004 14:50 PDT
 
Ride with an idle whip
Ride with an unused heel
But once in a way there will come a day 
When the colt must be taught to feel
The ---------------------------
And the sting of the roweled steel.
Subject: Re: quotation by Kipling
From: apteryx-ga on 31 May 2004 20:24 PDT
 
Hi, Pink--

I looked it up, too, and read the whole story, which was one I'd never seen before.

Then I tried to find something that would tell me what "beany" means
in this context, but I couldn't turn it up.  Just wondering if any of
Kipling's countrymen might know.

(Yoo-hoo, Bryan?)

Tryx
Subject: Re: quotation by Kipling
From: pinkfreud-ga on 31 May 2004 22:37 PDT
 
Tryx,

I seem to recall having seen "beany" in the sense of "balmy" or
"buggy" (i.e. nutty, flaky, wacko) in one of P.G. Wodehouse's novels.
I don't think it was a Jeeves tale. Perhaps one of the Psmith stories.
Wish I had a Wodehouse concordance.

~Pink

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