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Read the following passage from the short story “Memoirs of a Yellow Dog” by O.’ Henry and answer the question that follows.
“I don’t suppose it will knock any of you people off your perch to read a contribution from an animal. Mr. Kipling and a good many others have demonstrated the fact that animals can express themselves in remunerative English, and no magazine goes to press nowadays without an animal story in it, except the old-style monthlies that are still running pictures of Bryan and the Mont Pélee horror.
But you needn’t look for any stuck-up literature in my piece, such as Bearoo, the bear, and Snakoo, the snake, and Tammanoo, the tiger, talk in the jungle books. A yellow dog that’s spent most of his life in a cheap New York flat, sleeping in a corner on an old sateen underskirt (the one she spilled port wine on at the Lady Longshoremen’s banquet), mustn’t be expected to perform any tricks with the art of speech.”
Why is Mr. Kipling mentioned in the first paragraph?
Nothing specific, just a name given by the author.
Kipling is known for his novel Jungle Book that has animals speaking. The author has referenced Kipling to demonstrate that animals can speak.
This is a continuation of a story left unfinished by Rudyard Kipling.
The yellow dog is named Mowgli.
“I don’t suppose it will knock any of you people off your perch to read a contribution from an animal. Mr. Kipling and a good many others have demonstrated the fact that animals can express themselves in remunerative English, and no magazine goes to press nowadays without an animal story in it, except the old-style monthlies that are still running pictures of Bryan and the Mont Pélee horror.
But you needn’t look for any stuck-up literature in my piece, such as Bearoo, the bear, and Snakoo, the snake, and Tammanoo, the tiger, talk in the jungle books. A yellow dog that’s spent most of his life in a cheap New York flat, sleeping in a corner on an old sateen underskirt (the one she spilled port wine on at the Lady Longshoremen’s banquet), mustn’t be expected to perform any tricks with the art of speech.”
Why is Mr. Kipling mentioned in the first paragraph?
Nothing specific, just a name given by the author.
Kipling is known for his novel Jungle Book that has animals speaking. The author has referenced Kipling to demonstrate that animals can speak.
This is a continuation of a story left unfinished by Rudyard Kipling.
The yellow dog is named Mowgli.
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Kipling is known for his novel Jungle Book that has animals speaking. The author has referenced Kipling to demonstrate that animals can speak.