The Man Who
Would be King

By

Rudyard Kipling




Published by Brentano’s at
31 Union Square New York

THE MAN WHO WOULD
BE KING

“Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he
be found worthy.”

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct
of life, and one not easy to follow. I
have been fellow to a beggar again and
again under circumstances which prevented
either of us finding out whether the other
was worthy. I have still to be brother to a
Prince, though I once came near to kinship
with what might have been a veritable King
and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom
—army, law-courts, revenue and policy
all complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear