“For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.”

— Rudyard Kipling , book Barrack-Room Ballads

The Ladies, Stanza VIII.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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