Debits and Credits (Kipling)

Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems and two scenes from a play^[1] by Rudyard Kipling. The collection was first published in 1926. Four of the poems are translations of odes by Horace. The copyright in the United States expires in 2020.^[2]

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Stories 1.2 Poems 1.3 Play Fragments 2 Online texts 3 References 4 External links

Contents

Stories

• "The Enemies to Each Other"

The story of Adam and Eve retold in the style of a Muslim fable

• "Sea Constables: a Tale of ’15"

Weekend sailors turned naval officers discuss their patrolling of the coast over dinner

• " 'In the Interests of the Brethren' "

An account of the generous hospitality of a Masonic Lodge in wartime

• "The United Idolaters"

A tale of school life, in which Stalky & Co discover Uncle Remus and outrage a new master

• "The Wish House"

An old Sussex woman talks about the love of her life and the price she paid for loving him

• "The Janeites"

An still-bewildered old soldier recalls how he came to join a 'secret society' of Jane Austen admirers and gives his own unique take on her oeuvre

• "The Prophet and the Country"

A stranded motorist meets an exiled American who explains his passionate objection to Prohibition

• "The Bull that Thought"

A story about an uncannily intelligent bull with a flair for the bullfight

• "A Madonna of the Trenches"

After the war, a soldier reveals the true cause of his "shell-shock"

• "The Propagation of Knowledge"

A tale of school life, in which Stalky & Co bait their English master with the Curiosities of Literature and the Baconian theory

• "A Friend of the Family"

An Australian soldier avenges his friend by waging war on the home front

• "On the Gate: a Tale of ’16"

A fantasy in which St Peter and the administrators of Heaven struggle to cope with the surge of souls from the war

• "The Eye of Allah"

In a mediaeval abbey, an artist shows some doctors an early microscope, which provokes debate

• "The Gardener"

A story about respectability and mother-love

Poems

• The Changelings
• The Vineyard
• ‘Banquet Night’
• To the Companions (Horace, ode 17, Bk. v.)
• The Centaurs
• ‘Late Came the God’
• Rahere
• The Survival (Horace, Ode 22 Bk. v.)
• Jane’s Marriage
• The Portent (Horace, Ode 20, Bk, v.)
• Alnaschar and the Oxen
• Gipsy Vans
• The Birthright
• A Legend of Truth
• We and They
• The Supports
• Untimely
• The Last Ode: Nov. 27, B.C. 8 (Horace, Ode 31, Bk. v.)
• The Burden

Play Fragments

• Gow’s Watch : Act IV. Sc. 4
• Gow’s Watch: Act V. Sc. 3

Online texts

• "Banquet Night"
• Debits and Credits

References

External links

• A Readers' Guide to Debits and Credits