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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 20, 19 May 1909, Page 42

The Rev. J. <”. Harris, pastor of the nal Cburva. who recently leetnned on "Rudyard Kipling,” told an excellent Kipling story. He -aid it was hard to believe that the man v o would write the “Recessional” cc'Uld de-eend to the level of "Pay. f ty, pay,” but no man was more keenly alive to his own blunders than Mr Kipling. Mr Harris -aid he was sitting witK Mr Kipling in his garden at Rottingdean one day when a street organ struck up "The Absent-Minded Beggar.” Kipling was silent oiie moment, and then remarked. "If it was not suicide I would kill the man who wrote that.”