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A Society member, Sir John Chaple, tells me that he was schoolboy to the biographer Carrington who maintained that much of Kipling's verse - at least in strophic form - was written to an underlying tune. Carrington had, apparently, identified many and John can recall the following: Screw-guns Eton boating song Recessional Eternal Father Strong to Save M'Andrews Hymn The Church's One Foundation Danny Dever Bollocky Bill Shilling a Day Vilikins and his Dinah Follow me Home Dead March in Saul Jobson's Amen Onward Christian Soldiers Let us now praise Famous Men Pop Goes the Weasel Would colleagues advance any further tunes? -- Jeffery Lewins 133 Thornton Road Girton CB3 0NE (01223) 276285