[ Kipling / "Namgay Doola"]
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1836) was one of the most popular writers of his time. An English journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and poet, Kipling now meets with a complex reception. As the voice of Victorian imperialism and a richly evocative interpreter of the British presence in India (where Kipling was born), he is often understood as a defender of colonialism, though his literary talent and achievement — which goes beyond imperial justification — was and still is widely acknowledged. He was the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907); he turned down the Poet Laureateship of Britain, and declined a knighthood as well. Today Kipling may well be best known for his childrens' tales, particularly The Jungle Book and Just-So Stories.
This comic short story of life in the hills of India and the "mingling" of Irish and Indian culture contains only one metaphorical references to Newfoundlands:
The moon was at full and drew out the rich scent of the tasselled crop. Then I heard the anguished bellow of a
Himalayan cow, one of the little black crummies no bigger than Newfoundland dogs.
[A "crummie" is "A cow with 'crumpled' or crooked horns; often a kind of proper name for any cow." (OED)]