Transcriber’s Notes Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_; small-caps text has been changed to all-caps. Bracketed page numbers, such as [Page 17], at the beginning of each Poem, were added as a Search aid by Transcriber, as the Table of Contents is in alphabetical, rather than page number sequence. THE SERVICE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING THE FIVE NATIONS VOL. II THE FIVE NATIONS BY RUDYARD KIPLING IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II [Illustration] METHUEN AND CO., LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. _First Published_ _September 1903_ _Second Edition_ _1903_ _Third Edition_ _1907_ _Fourth Edition_ _1908_ _Fifth and Sixth Editions_ _1909_ _Seventh Edition_ _1910_ _Eighth Edition_ _1911_ _Ninth Edition_ _1912_ _Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Editions_ _1913_ _Fourteenth Edition_ _1914_ _Fifteenth Edition (2 vols.)_ _1914_ CONTENTS THE FIVE NATIONS PAGE BRIDGE-GUARD IN THE KARROO 8 DIRGE OF DEAD SISTERS 26 ISLANDERS, THE 31 LESSON, THE 13 OLD ISSUE, THE 1 PEACE OF DIVES, THE 40 REFORMERS, THE 23 SETTLER, THE 53 SOUTH AFRICA 49 SERVICE SONGS BOOTS 88 CHANT-PAGAN 59 COLUMNS 72 FILES, THE 17 HALF-BALLAD OF WATERVAL 102 INSTRUCTOR, THE 86 LICHTENBERG 95 MARRIED MAN, THE 91 M. I. 64 PARTING OF THE COLUMNS, THE 77 PIET 104 RECESSIONAL 121