Kipling's Six Honest Serving Men

Kipling's Six Honest Serving Men

Kipling's Six Honest Serving Men is the famous phrase listing the main interrogative words. It comes from four lines of poetry by Rudyard Kipling:

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

These lines comprise part of the epigraph to Kipling's short story, "The Elephant's Child".


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