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My workroom in the Bliss Cottage was seven feet by eight, and from December to April the snow lay level with its window-sill … After blocking out the main idea in my head, the pen took charge, and I watched it begin to write stories about Mowgli and animals, which later grew into the Jungle Books . |
This is from the fifth chapter of Something of Myself. The young Kiplings, newly married, had lost all their savings in a bank failure. Now in the depths of a Vermont winter, Rudyard was settling down to his writing to restore their fortunes. |
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