# Quote — Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

> When the cabin port-holes are dark and green
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> Because of the seas outside;
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> When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between)
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> And the steward falls into the soup-tureen,
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> And the trunks begin to slide;
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> When Nursey lies on the floor in a heap,
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> And Mummy tells you to let her sleep,
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> And you aren't waked or washed or dressed,
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> Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed)
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> You're ‘Fifty North and Forty West!'

- Author: [Rudyard Kipling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling.md)
- Book: [Just So Stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling#Just_So_Stories_(1902)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories/when-the-cabin

## More from this book

> I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories/i-am-the.md)

> I keep six honest serving-men:
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> (They taught me all I knew)
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> Their names are What and Where and When
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> And How and Why and Who.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/just-so-stories/i-keep-six.md)