| Show INK SLINGING one peculiarity 0 the great story writer while at work there is one peculiarity of kippings Kip lings v ork says a writer in mcclunes mcclures McC lures magazine which I 1 really must mention namely the amount qt ink he used to throw about ip the beat ot summer white cotton trousers and a thin vest constituted his office attire and by the days end he was spotted all over like a Dal mation dog he had a habit of dipping his pen frequently and deep into the inkpot and as all his movements were abrupt almost jerky the ink used to fly when he darted into my room as lie used to do about one thing or another in connection with the contents of the paper a dozen times in the morning I 1 had to shout to him to stand off otherwise as I 1 knew by experience the abrupt halt he would make and the flourish with which he placed the proof in his hand before me would send the of ink he always had a full pen in his hand flying over me driving or sometimes ome times walking home to breakfast in bis light attire plentifully be sprinkled with ink his spectacled face peeping out under an enormous mushroom shaped pith hat kipling was a quaint looking object that was in hat weather when lahore lay blistering month after month under the sun and every white woman and half ot tiia white men had fled to cooler altitude sta the and only those men were left who like kipling and myself had to stay so it mattered little in what costume we went to and from the office in the winter when society had returned to kipling was rather scrupulous n the matter of dress but his lavish in the matter ot ink changed not with the |
