LONDON (AFP) - An unfinished children's tale by British author Rudyard Kipling, dug up after decades in an English school, has been published for the first time, a charity organization dedicated to the author said.


"Scylla and Charybdis", part of Kipling's Stalky and Co. saga about boys at a boarding school, sees Stalky and his friends catch a colonel cheating at golf.


The manuscript was discovered by an archivist at a school built on the same site as the author's own childhood school in Windsor, west of London.


The Kipling Society's secretary Jeffrey Lewis said the novel was probably left unpublished because Kipling did not think it was good enough.


"He started a second draft and didn't complete it," Lewis told the BBC.


Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling did part of his schooling in England. He moved there for good in 1896, after writing "The Jungle Book" in the United States.


Kipling refused most of the awards offered to him, but accepted a Nobel Literature Prize in 1907.


The cult author, beloved of generations of children for his "Kim" and "Just So Stories", died in 1936.




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