DEBITS AND CREDITS Books by Rudyard Kipling Actions and Reactions Brushwood Boy, The Captains Courageous Collected Verse Day’s Work, The Debits and Credits Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads Diversity of Creatures, A Eyes of Asia, The Feet of the Young Men, The Five Nations, The France at War Fringes of the Fleet From Sea to Sea History of England, A Independence Irish Guards in the Great War, The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, Second Just So Song Book Just So Stories Kim Kipling Anthology, A Prose and Verse Kipling Calendar Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know Kipling Birthday Book, The Land and Sea Tales Letters of Travel Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People Light That Failed, The Many Inventions Naulahka, The (With Wolcott Balestier) Plain Tales From the Hills Puck of Pook’s Hill Rewards and Fairies Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 Sea Warfare Seven Seas, The Soldier Stories Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, and In Black and White Song of the English, A Songs for Youth Songs from Books Stalky & Co. The Two Jungle Books They Traffics and Discoveries Under the Deodars, The Phantom ’Rickshaw, and Wee Willie Winkie With the Night Mail Years Between, The DEBITS AND CREDITS By Rudyard Kipling [Illustration: Colophon] GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1926 [Illustration: Rudyard Kipling Signature] COPYRIGHT, 1919, 1924, 1926, BY RUDYARD KIPLING. COPYRIGHT, 1915, 1918, BY THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE COMPANY. COPYRIGHT, 1925, 1926, BY THE MCCALL COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. CONTENTS PAGE The Enemies to Each Other 1 _The Changelings_ 19 Sea Constables: A Tale of ’15 20 _The Vineyard_ 41 “_Banquet Night_” 45 “In the Interests of the Brethren” 47 _To the Companions_ (_Horace, Ode 17, Bk._ V) 69 The United Idolaters 70 _The Centaurs_ 89 “_Late Came the God_” 93 The Wish House 94 _Rahere_ 117 _The Survival_ (_Horace, Ode 22, Bk._ V) 123 The Janeites 124 _Jane’s Marriage_ 148 _The Portent_ (_Horace, Ode 20, Bk._ V) 153