Possible Clues:

• Kipling classic
• Kipling poem
• 1939 adventure film starring Cary Grant
• My better weapon, notice, tossed in the drink
• Poem by Kipling
• Kipling hero
• You're a better man than I am, - - ! (Kipling)
• Kipling character
• Weapon brought by tribe in water carrier
• Kipling's "limpin' lump o' brick-dust"