Life is so short, and eternity so long. Is it possible that all we ever get is this one brief opportunity? If you don't know the answer, then you're in good company. This question also puzzled a man who was one of the world's greatest writers of adventure stories, Mr Rudyard Kipling - and because he was a writer, every time he had a thought that puzzled him, he wrote a story about it, and this is the story of how he happened to write this story. Meet Mr Rudyard Kipling himself...