I am searching for a Kipling story that I read long ago. It is part of
his later, living-in-Sussex work. Writing in the first person, as though
it had happened to him, he reports being in either a club or restaurant,
sitting by the window. Looking out at the Sussex hill he became terrified,
thinking that he saw a monster coming down over the hills. Bottom line,
he finally realized that the problem was one of perspective.
The "monster" was a small caterpillar crawling down the window beside
him. His mind had thought that it was far distant, on the hill, and so
assumed it to be huge and distant, instead of small and close.
I need to find the story, but don't know the title or what collection it
is in. Can anyone help, please?
Diana Robinson
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