EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Of these tales appeared originally in the Civil and Militars Gazette. I am indebted to the kindness of the Proprietors of that paper for permission to reprint them.The remaining tales are, more or less, new.

In this collection of short stories Kipling succeeds in shattering such misapprehensions about life in India during the British Raj. Drawing on his own experiences as a cub reporter, he is able to interpret the ways and beliefs as well as the work and pleasures of the Imperial administrators and the races they governed that were half a world away from his original Victorian readers.

Viceroys and beggars, soldiers and their officers, civil servants and children - and some very clever women - all play their parts in the history of a sub-continent. And although everywhere there are barriers between the races, the classes and the sexes, the inevitable misunderstandings between them as often end in comedy as in tragedy.

Lispeth

Three and---an Extra

Thrown Away

Miss Youghal's Sais

' Yoked with an Unbeliever'

False Dawn

The Rescue of Pluffles

Cupid's Arrows.

The Three Musketeers

His Chance in Life

Watches- of the Night

The Other Man

Consequences

The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin

The Tsking of Lungtungpen

A Germ-Destroyer

Kidnapped

The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly

In the House of 8uddhoo

His Wedded Wife

The Broken-link Handicap

Beyond the Pale

In Error

A Bank Fraud

Tods' Amendment

The Daughter of the Regiment

In the Pride of his Youth

Pig

The Rout of the White Hussars

The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case

Venus Annodomini

The Bisara of Poorce

A Friend's Friend

The Crate of the Hundred Sorrows

The Madness of Private Ortheris

The Story of Muhtmmad Din

On the Strength of a Likeness

Wressley of the Foreign Office

By Word of Mouth

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