Today is the the birthday of short-story writer, poet, and novelist (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay, India (1865). He settled in Vermont. It was there, in a rented cottage surrounded by snow, that he began to reimagine the India of his childhood, and he wrote the book for which he's best known today, "The Jungle Book "(1894), about a boy raised by wolves, who grows up with the other jungle animals until a tiger forces him to go back and live with people.