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Just an interesting article: '...But of all recent offenders the most hardy and unashamed is Mr. Rudyard Kipling. When he was a very young man and wrote in the Pioneer and the Civil and Military Gazette, he used to bluff so crudely that people laughed, and the phrase, "There was a cooly-woman once, but that is another story," became a proverb in India. ... Indeed, if I were a tyrant with a tyrant's taste for good literature hot and hot, I would clap Mr. Kipling into my dungeons and make him show his cards. I would learn at last whom he meant by the Biggest Liar in Asia; perhaps a pretty bit of autobiography might be extracted under threats of the bastinado...' From "The book of the Cambridge Review, 1879-1897 (1898)" http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofcambridger00cambiala/bookofcambridger00cambiala_djvu.txt http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofcambridger00cambiala/bookofcambridger00cambiala.djvu ON BLUFFING (pp.27-30)