By all accounts, including his own, writing for the paper was a labor of love and the young Kipling was often covered in ink from his writings. He returned in October, 1882 and began writing at the Civil and Military Gazette. Lacking the financial resources to continue his education it was decided that Rudyard should return to India. In 1878, Kipling was admitted to United Services College at Westward Ho!, a college that prepared young men for the military. Also, badly-treated children have a clear notion of what they are likely to get if they betray the secrets of a prison-house before they are clear of it'. He recorded: 'Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. When he was old, and his treatment under the Halloway's was known to his family, his aunt asked why he had not made his suffering known at the time. Yet it made me give attention to the lies I soon found it necessary to tell: and this, I presume, is the foundation of literary effort'. I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture - religious as well as scientific. If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. 'If you cross-examine a child of seven or eight on his day’s doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep) he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. He credited the experience in his autobiography for sparking his literary career, While his sister seemed to be a favorite - she later married the Halloway's son - Rudyard was treated harshly at the boarding house. Sarah Halloway, who acted as custodians for British Nationals serving in India. They were boarded with Captain Pryse Agar Halloway and Mrs. Keeping with custom, Rudyard and his younger sister were returned to England to receive an education when Rudyard was five years old. Though he spent most of his life outside of India, like his parents he thought of himself as 'Anglo Indian.' He referred to his early days in India as the days of strong light and darkness. The English novelist, poet, and short story writer particularly beloved for his Just So Stories, was born in Bombay India on December 30, 1865.

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) lived an extraordinary life. Pen Name: Rudyard Kipling Born: December 30, 1865, Mumbai Died: January 18, 1936, Middlesex Hospital

Tales of the Occult by Rudyard Kipling