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Can't find Mr Johnson's address so am sending this to mailbase. I think there must be a misprint in the edition he's using. The last verse of 'The Disciple' begins: 'He that hath a Gospel / Whereby Heaven is won / (Carpenter, or Cameleer, or Maya's dreaming son)...' [not 'Myra']. Kipling means Gautama Buddha, whose mother's name was Maya, according to the Penguin edition's notes on Kim, chapter 1. Lisa Lewis %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%