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Set: The Taking of Lungtungpen

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The Taking of Lungtungpen is a story by Rudyard Kipling in which three soldiers manage to take a city by swimming across a river (stripping naked to do so), and then engaging in a fight on the other side, still naked. It's eight pages long, and still my edition of Soldier Tales gives two illustrations to it, because, let's face it, naked people are funny. It's written in Kipling's phonetic (but apparently rather accurate) Irish English, hence the spellings in the captions.

1. '"Shtrip, bhoys," sez I. "Shtrip to the buff, an' shwim in where glory waits!"'
2. 'There was a melly av a sumpshus kind for a whoile.'

Reason: These are illustrations to one of Kipling's more bizarre tales of British soldiers. The Swantype engraving process is a little grainy, but if the originals even exist, I'd be somewhat surprised, much more so if they're at all publicly accessible. This is from the first edition of Soldier Tales (1896).; Scanned at 800dpi, so, as usual, the ink might look a smidgen odd. Since we have articles for most of the tales in Soldier Tales, I'm going to nominate them in smaller, easier to review batches (that don't make me disappear from FPC for three weeks); Although I do think it's tastefully done, we don't get a lot of male nudity here; if this is a problem to anyone, I have no problem with putting these behind a {{hat}} tag.
Articles in which this image appears: The Taking of Lungtungpen.
FP category for this image: WP:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations
Creator: Archibald Standish Hartrick (Best name ever, 1864–1950). Restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:01, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support - We have to counterbalance the female nudity on the MP. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:55, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T (talk) 10:48, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support.Nikhil (talk) 23:54, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Shupport sez I. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 04:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 18 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 1.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:04, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 19 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 2.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:04, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]