Live Reading | Rudyard Kipling - The Maltese Cat

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The Maltese Cat, a polo pony living among the British in India, achieves glory and honor in the big game against the Archangels.

This is a story about a game of polo – or to be more precise, one polo pony, the ‘Maltese Cat’, in that game. Kipling’s bent for anthropomorphism is once again in evidence, but with more justice, for a pony is at least a sentient being, not like a ship or a railway engine. The setting is India; to be precise, the polo ground at Umballa, then a major army cantonment. We are about to have a description of the Final match of the ‘Upper India Free for All Cup’ in the year 1880-something. Various details will be revealed as the tale is told, but for the uninitiated it may be said that the match is between a team from ‘The Archangels’ and one from ‘The Skidars’. The Archangels are from a British (almost certainly) Cavalry regiment, whose members are well-to-do: The Skidars are a ‘poor but honest native infantry regiment’, whose British officers probably had little to live on beyond their pay.

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