Dear Catherine
I don't know the answer to your question, but I will circulate it to the
Kipling Mailbase in case anyone else can help !
All good wishes, John Radcliffe
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From: Mike Stallybrass <[log in to unmask]>
To: r-k <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 12:25 AM
Subject: Muldoon
> My daughter has asked me to ask this: a colleague at work is known to his
> staff as "Muldoon". When she asked why someone told her they thought it
> had to do with Kipling. I pointed her at "A Walking Delegate" in "The
> Day's Work" and she agreed that the retired Belt Line horse had traits in
> common with her colleague! "But, why", she asks "did Kipling call the
> horse Muldoon in the first place? Is it an allusion to some well-known
> character elsewhere or what?"
> Help please!
>
> Catherine Stallybrass
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