id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9486 Stalky & Co. - Wikipedia .html text/html 2511 275 78 Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is set at a school dubbed "the College" or "the Coll.", which is based on the actual United Services College that Kipling attended as a boy.[1] The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly based on Kipling himself, while the charismatic character Stalky is based on Lionel Dunsterville, M'Turk is based on George Charles Beresford, Mr King is based on William Carr Crofts,[2] and the school Head, Mr. Bates, is based on Cormell Price. Kipling describes "Stalky" as the first of the Stalky & Co tales to be written: it was originally published in The Windsor Magazine and McClure's Magazine in 1898.[13] ^ "Boy-Society in Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.", Lynne M. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9486.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9486.txt