339:): The Head catches the three boys out of bounds and smoking and has them caned, and they intend revenge. Some Old Boys (former pupils) visit at the end of the term. One of them, Crandall, an army officer in India, had seen another Old Boy die after a skirmish. The Head has Crandall sleep in his old dormitory, and boys crowd in to hear his story. To punish them for leaving their beds, the Head has them do prep. (study) on the last night. The pupils riot. The three boys had learned that when the Head had happened upon them out of bounds, he had been out to save another pupil from
387:): The characters are now about thirty, and most are civil servants or soldiers in India. All the participants in the Aladdin pantomime except Stalky reunite in England at the estate of a friend ("the Infant", who narrated Kipling's story "A Conference of the Powers"). They tell Beetle (the narrator of this story) how Stalky, an army captain, got his small force out of a siege by shooting at his enemies to get them to fight each other, as he had got the carter to throw stones at Mr. King; meanwhile Stalky used his charisma and language skills to keep his
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519:"The Satisfaction of a Gentleman" (1920): Beetle and one of the "Aladdin" players have a war of pranks. They conclude with a duel that turns into a chaotic battle on the nearby golf course using guns loaded with dust shot (very small shotgun pellets). As Beetle flees, he collides with an elderly golfer who turns out to be on the school's Council. The Head canes Beetle, Stalky, and M'Turk to appease him.
290:): Mr. King taunts Beetle for having formerly been afraid of bathing in the sea, leading the boys of King's house (dormitory) to taunt those of Prout's house as "stinkers". With the help of architectural knowledge Beetle has recently learned, the boys put a cat that they killed above the ceiling in King's house, causing a real stink, to King's house's much greater embarrassment.
978:... or rather, like the essence of Crofts distilled with genius, with the perspective of more than thirty years to colour even Kipling's recollection of the real man. The first written of the stories, "Slaves of the Lamp", suggests that to begin with Kipling's "mixture" for King contained a large percentage of Crofts, but with a certain admixture of Mr. F. W. Haslam...
359:): A general on the College's Board of Council sees Sergeant Foxy drilling boys, including Stalky and Beetle, as a punishment for lateness. He thinks they're drilling voluntarily and decides the school should have a well-equipped cadet-corps. A number of boys participate enthusiastically to prepare for their intended careers as military officers. However, a
613:, noting that a master incites the three boys to bully the two bullies with "gusto" (shared by the author) and that the Head seems to approve it, he saw authority and supposed morality as the typical justification for cruelty. He added, "In this we have the key to the ugliest, most retrogressive, and finally fatal idea of modern imperialism; the idea of
1338:, a book that went through nearly fifty editions in as many years. It is a novel that Stalky & Co. know very well and constantly ridicule. Eric's troubles begin one night in the dormitory when he listens to boys swearing and fails to warn them about the dangers of foul language. From there on it's moral decay all the way."
324:): The Rev. John Gillett suggests that the three boys protect a small boy who is being bullied. They trick the bullies (two older boys) into letting themselves be tied up for a game, and in a scene that has horrified many readers, torment the bullies without mercy until they convincingly agree to behave themselves.
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Wontner, including abducting him to the Infant's mansion. As Wontner intends to create a scandal that will end their careers, Stalky diverts him by helping to tie up and embarrass the pranksters, after which Wontner is as guilty as they
136:, thus flaunting his more worldly outlook. The final chapter recounts events in the lives of the boys when, as adults, they are in the armed forces in India. It is implied that the mischievous pranks of the boys in school were splendid training for their role as instruments of the British Empire.
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named Tulke sees them, they persuade Mary to kiss him. The prefects try to criticise the three for immorality, but they turn the tables by reporting Tulke's "immorality" and suggesting that the other prefects are conspiring with him. The three boys grudgingly agree not to tell the rest of the
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whose three juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 after the stories had appeared in magazines during the previous two years. It is set at a school dubbed "the
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is practiced. When M'Turk tells the keeper's employer, a colonel who owns land adjoining their school, he gratefully invites them to visit his land. Later
Sergeant Foxy, Mr. King, and Mr. Prout follow the boys to see what they're up to when far from the school, and Stalky leads them onto the
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is invited to give a speech on 'patriotism' to the school. He tactlessly outrages the boys' deep and private feelings about their military families and future, culminating by waving a Union Jack, an action which baffles them. Led by Stalky, the members of the cadet-corps quit the next
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improvised by Stalky, Beetle, and M'Turk. As the school is nearly set on fire, the Head punishes many pupils. A new master obsessed with the possibility of homosexuality at the school thinks the Tar Baby was indecent, and the resulting quarrel with the other masters ends with his
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in 1923). Several pupils at the Coll. are caught and locked in a barn while trying to steal cattle for fun. Corkran leads Beetle and M'Turk in rescuing them and locking the farmhands in the barn. The boys change
Corkran's nickname "Corky" to "Stalky" (which rhymes with it in the
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of "Aladdin", Mr. King interrupts, as he has found lampoons Beetle wrote about him. He takes Beetle to his study and reprimands him in front of the younger boy who showed King the verses. By shooting a drunken carter with a
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by sucking the pseudo-membrane out of his throat, at great risk to the Head's life. They spread the report of the Head's heroism. When he comes to stop the rioting, all the pupils cheer him incessantly despite his
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colonel's land. The colonel upbraids them for trespassing, amusing the boys, who are eavesdropping. Though the Head finds out that the boys are technically innocent, he canes them for causing trouble.
305:): Mr. Prout evicts the three boys from their study because each has been doing the others' work in the classes that he is good at. They give the impression of conspiracies, intrigues, and systematic
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Charybdis", that remained unpublished in his lifetime. It depicts Stalky and his friends catching a colonel cheating at golf near
1027:(1929) It is twinned with "Slaves of the Lamp Part II", in which the tactics used by Stalky against his enemies at school are used again with great success on the North West Frontier of India.
1470:, which includes the text of all of his stories. Isabel Quigly's notes on the Stalky stories are available by navigating to each story, then clicking "Background", then "Notes on the text".
576:, in which Buchanan saw Kipling's work as a sign of British culture's reversion to barbarism, and said of the book, "The vulgarity, the brutality, the savagery reeks on every page."
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765:. In the story "In Ambush", Beetle twice calls Sgt. Foxy "
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Reginald (or Reggie) Beetle, based on Kipling himself.
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508:"The Propagation of Knowledge" (1926, collected in
2538:Works originally published in The Windsor Magazine
1043:. Vol. 2. London: Haskell House. p. 48.
416:"Stalky" (originally published 1898, collected in
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789:Uncle Remus and His Legends of the Old Plantation
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1804:Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition
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1599:The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales
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850:in 1982. The six-part series starred
2367:Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
312:"The Moral Reformers" (March, 1899,
2398:Rudyard Kipling: A Remembrance Tale
2139:The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin
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621:' massacres in tsarist Russia, the
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1167:Buchanan, Robert (December 1899).
954:Volume 2, Number 2, 1978 pp. 16–26
951:The Lion and the Unicorn (journal)
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1936:The Gods of the Copybook Headings
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903:Inside the Whale and Other Essays
811:Posthumously published manuscript
2424:Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling
1838:The Ballad of the 'Clampherdown'
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966:"Some Notes on the Characters"
964:Green, Roger Lancelyn (1961).
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582:called the book "deplorable";
542:"The Honours of War" (1917 in
525:"Slaves of the Lamp (Part II)"
476:"Regulus" (1917, collected in
327:A Little Prep." (April, 1899,
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2160:The Drums of the Fore and Aft
1978:The Last of the Light Brigade
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1169:"The Voice of 'The Hooligan'"
1091:"Slaves of the Lamp, Part II"
1039:Livingston, Flora V. (1972).
1025:The Complete Stalky & Co.
990:Livingston, Flora V. (1972).
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442:"Slaves of the Lamp (Part I)"
384:Cosmopolis: A Literary Review
263:Cosmopolis: A Literary Review
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1301:Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism
1221:The Complete Stalky & Co
1007:"Slaves of the Lamp, Part I"
919:"Land and Sea Tales: Stalky"
836:Magdalene College, Cambridge
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367:"The Last Term" (May, 1899,
178:in Ireland). He is based on
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2272:The Ship that Found Herself
1845:The Ballad of East and West
1812:A Choice of Kipling's Verse
1428:public domain audiobook at
1254:Experiment in Autobiography
505:"The Flag of Their Country"
410:The Complete Stalky and Co.
110:about adolescent boys at a
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2153:The Devil and the Deep Sea
2125:The Butterfly that Stamped
1567:Plain Tales from the Hills
1468:The Kipling Society's site
678:Eric, or, Little by Little
240:"In Ambush" (August 1898,
133:Eric, or, Little by Little
2533:Novels by Rudyard Kipling
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2286:The Taking of Lungtungpen
2230:The Man Who Would Be King
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1915:The Female of the Species
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1371:The Haileybury Connection
1336:Eric, or Little by Little
1316:Kipling, Rudyard (1968).
1306:Ellipsis by Le Gallienne.
1219:Kipling, Rudyard (1987).
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2335:Yoked with an Unbeliever
2118:The Broken-Link Handicap
1831:The Absent-Minded Beggar
1780:The Fringes of the Fleet
1583:The Story of the Gadsbys
825:Imperial Service College
758:The Last of the Mohicans
544:A Diversity of Creatures
479:A Diversity of Creatures
445:"An Unsavoury Interlude"
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180:George Charles Beresford
117:. It is a collection of
2384:Aerial Board of Control
2314:Toomai of the Elephants
2202:In the House of Suddhoo
1374:, Andrew Hambling, 2004
1257:. Victor Gollancz Ltd.
1173:The Contemporary Review
573:The Contemporary Review
570:'s essay on Kipling in
404:An expanded version of
224:Contents with summaries
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124:United Services College
2362:Indian Railway Library
2265:The Rescue of Pluffles
2072:The White Man's Burden
1815:(by T. S. Eliot, 1941)
1709:All the Mowgli Stories
1685:The Second Jungle Book
1391:The Telegraph (online)
1281:The Outline of History
906:. Victor Gollancz Ltd.
641:Language and allusions
529:Other Stalky stories:
2472:Georgiana Burne-Jones
2448:John Lockwood Kipling
2111:Bread upon the Waters
1971:The King's Pilgrimage
1693:Letting in the Jungle
1520:The Light That Failed
1396:Telegraph Media Group
1296:Le Gallienne, Richard
1278:Wells, H. G. (1920).
842:Television adaptation
763:James Fenimore Cooper
536:Actions and Reactions
451:"The Moral Reformers"
2321:Watches of the Night
2300:The Three Musketeers
2293:Three and – an Extra
2104:Baa Baa, Black Sheep
1964:In the Neolithic Age
1631:Barrack-Room Ballads
800:The Railway Children
793:Joel Chandler Harris
735:Robert Smith Surtees
635:Richard Le Gallienne
448:"The Impressionists"
430:The Windsor Magazine
361:Member of Parliament
210:," plus F. W. Haslam
2528:1899 British novels
2244:Miss Youghal's Sais
1796:Limits and Renewals
1783:(1915, non-fiction)
1772:Rewards and Fairies
1764:Puck of Pook's Hill
1540:Captains Courageous
1348:The Kipling Society
1068:The Kipling Society
751:William Shakespeare
671:The Boy's Own Paper
166:Lionel Dunsterville
142:wrote in 1940 that
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2488:Philip Burne-Jones
2480:Edward Burne-Jones
2401:(2006 documentary)
2188:His Chance in Life
2037:The Sons of Martha
1985:The Lowestoft Boat
1950:Hymn Before Action
1788:Debits and Credits
1591:In Black and White
1064:"The English Flag"
1048:McClure's Magazine
917:Kipling, Rudyard.
685:'em splendidly?" (
610:Outline of History
510:Debits and Credits
457:Debits and Credits
434:McClure's Magazine
356:Pearson's Magazine
350:McClure's Magazine
330:McClure's Magazine
315:McClure's Magazine
296:McClure's Magazine
281:McClure's Magazine
249:Pearson's Magazine
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