Kipling's plagiarism

Oh, Kippy. Apparently Rudyard Kipling had no problem telling people that he borrowed material quite liberally from other authors and was so blasé about it that he couldn't even remember where he did his pilfering. In a letter he wrote in 1895, Kipling owns up to using someone else's work in The Jungle Book. Hard to be upset at him considering what he created with said material.

And now, a joke:
"Do you like Kipling?"
"I don't know, I've never Kippled."