Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>December</span></a> 30, 1865<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> Rudyard <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Kipling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kipling</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> & <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a>, is born.</p><p>Here's a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garden</span></a> excerpt from <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RikkiTikkiTavi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RikkiTikkiTavi</span></a>:</p><p>"Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. <br>But he did not grow too <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Proud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Proud</span></a>.</p><p>& He kept that <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garden</span></a> as a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Mongoose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mongoose</span></a> should keep it, <br> w/ <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Tooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tooth</span></a> <br> & <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Jump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jump</span></a> <br> & <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spring</span></a> <br> & <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bite</span></a>, <br>Till never a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Cobra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cobra</span></a> dared show its head inside the walls."</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gardening</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gardener</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GardenersofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GardenersofMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a></p>