Round 10: Tossup 17

A character created by this author names a game of memorizing stones, a skill he learned while being trained as a (-5[1])spy by Mr. Lurgan. The speaker avoids “goin' lunatic” while “sloggin’ over Africa” in a poem by this author inspired by boots marching. A character created by this author ransoms an egg with a cobra named (*) Nagaina. (10[2])The speaker (10[1])of a poem (10[1])by this author praises keeping “your head when all about you / are losing theirs” before declaring “you’ll be a Man, (10[1])my son!” (10[1])An 1894 collection by this author of Kim and the poem “If” (10[3])depicts (10[2])characters like (10[1])the tiger Shere Khan and Mowgli in India. For 10 points, name this author of The Jungle Book. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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