HIS CHANCE IN LIFE

Joseph Rudyard Kipling   was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Не was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children, and he also was the first to use Cockney dialect in serious poetry. 
«His Chance in Life» is a short story, which was first published in the first Indian edition of “Plain Tales from the Hills”, and in subsequent editions of that collection. The story is illuminating about Kipling's attitudes to race, which are less cut-and-dried than is often thought. The story concerns his new posting to the telegraph station at Tibasu, a remote sub-station whose real function is only to relay messages. An entertaining story, which has a little life lesson to accompany it!