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In the short span of four years, he produced, in addition to the ''[[The Jungle Book (disambiguation)|Jungle Books]]'', a collection of short stories (''The Day's Work''), a novel (''[[Captains Courageous]]''), and a profusion of poetry, including the volume ''The Seven Seas''. The collection of ''[[Barrack-Room Ballads]]'', first published individually for the most part in 1890, which contains his poems "[[Mandalay (poem)|Mandalay]]" and "[[Gunga Din]]" was issued in March 1892. He especially enjoyed writing the Jungle Books—both masterpieces of imaginative writing—and enjoyed too corresponding with the many children who wrote to him about them.<ref name=gilmour/> | In the short span of four years, he produced, in addition to the ''[[The Jungle Book (disambiguation)|Jungle Books]]'', a collection of short stories (''The Day's Work''), a novel (''[[Captains Courageous]]''), and a profusion of poetry, including the volume ''The Seven Seas''. The collection of ''[[Barrack-Room Ballads]]'', first published individually for the most part in 1890, which contains his poems "[[Mandalay (poem)|Mandalay]]" and "[[Gunga Din]]" was issued in March 1892. He especially enjoyed writing the Jungle Books—both masterpieces of imaginative writing—and enjoyed too corresponding with the many children who wrote to him about them.<ref name=gilmour/> | ||
The writing life in ''Naulakha'' was occasionally interrupted by visitors, including [[John Lockwood Kipling|his father]], who visited soon after his retirement in 1893,<ref name=gilmour/> and British author [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], who brought his golf-clubs, stayed for two days, and gave Kipling an extended | The writing life in ''Naulakha'' was occasionally interrupted by visitors, including [[John Lockwood Kipling|his father]], who visited soon after his retirement in 1893,<ref name=gilmour/> and British author [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], who brought his golf-clubs, stayed for two days, and gave Kipling an extended golf lesson.<ref name=mallett>Mallet, Phillip. 2003. ''Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life''. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. ISBN 0-333-55721-2</ref><ref name=ricketts>Ricketts, Harry. 1999. ''Rudyard Kipling: A life''. Carroll and Graf Publishers Inc., New York. ISBN 0-7867-0711-9.</ref> Kipling seemed to take to golf, occasionally practising with the local [[Congregational]] minister, and even playing with red painted balls when the ground was covered in snow.<ref name=carrington>Carrington, Charles. 1955. ''Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work. Macmillan and Company, London and New York.</ref><ref name=ricketts/> However, the latter game was "not altogether a success because there were no limits to a drive; the ball might skid two miles (3 km) down the long slope to [[Connecticut river]]."<ref name=carrington/> | ||
From all accounts, Kipling loved the outdoors,<ref name=gilmour/> not least of whose marvels in Vermont was the turning of the leaves each fall. He described this moment in a letter: "A little [[maple]] began it, flaming blood-red of a sudden where he stood against the dark green of a pine-belt. Next morning there was an answering signal from the swamp where the [[sumac]]s grow. Three days later, the hill-sides as fast as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold. Then a wet wind blew, and ruined all the uniforms of that gorgeous army; and the [[oak]]s, who had held themselves in reserve, buckled on their dull and bronzed [[cuirass]]es and stood it out stiffly to the last blown leaf, till nothing remained but pencil-shadings of bare boughs, and one could see into the most private heart of the woods."<ref>Kipling, Rudyard. 1920. ''Letters of Travel (1892–1920)''. Macmillan and Company.</ref> | From all accounts, Kipling loved the outdoors,<ref name=gilmour/> not least of whose marvels in Vermont was the turning of the leaves each fall. He described this moment in a letter: "A little [[maple]] began it, flaming blood-red of a sudden where he stood against the dark green of a pine-belt. Next morning there was an answering signal from the swamp where the [[sumac]]s grow. Three days later, the hill-sides as fast as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold. Then a wet wind blew, and ruined all the uniforms of that gorgeous army; and the [[oak]]s, who had held themselves in reserve, buckled on their dull and bronzed [[cuirass]]es and stood it out stiffly to the last blown leaf, till nothing remained but pencil-shadings of bare boughs, and one could see into the most private heart of the woods."<ref>Kipling, Rudyard. 1920. ''Letters of Travel (1892–1920)''. Macmillan and Company.</ref> | ||