Dear Lisa
Your quote is from the Chapter VII heading in "The
Naulahka", and also appears in "Songs from Books".
It begins:
'There is pleasure in the wet, wet clay / When the
artist's hand is potting it;'
and ends almost exactly as you quoted with:
'Not a little place at Tooting / But a country-house
with shooting / And a ring-fence, deer-park Lie.'
With best regards
David Page
Harrow UK
--- Lisa Lewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Kipling
did write a Gilbertian patter -song. Can't
> remember the title or
> first line, but it's about an elaborate lie and ends
> with something like "Not a
> little place at Tooting / But a manor house with
> shooting / And a ring-fence,
> deer-park lie."
>
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