Indian Tales
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Rudyard Kipling. Indian Tales
"THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD"
WITH THE MAIN GUARD
WEE WILLIE WINKIE
THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS
AT TWENTY-TWO
THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD
THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN
IN FLOOD TIME
MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY
THE BIG DRUNK DRAF'
BY WORD OF MOUTH
THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT
THE SENDING OF DANA DA
ON THE CITY WALL
THE BROKEN-LINK HANDICAP
ON GREENHOW HILL
TO BE FILED FOR REFERENCE
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
THE GATE OF THE HUNDRED SORROWS
THE INCARNATION OF KRISHNA MULVANEY
HIS MAJESTY THE KING
THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES
IN THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO
BLACK JACK
THE TAKING OF LUNGTUNGPEN
THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW
ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS
PRIVATE LEAROYD'S STORY
WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE
THE SOLID MULDOON
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
BEYOND THE PALE
THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE
THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT
THE MADNESS OF PRIVATE ORTHERIS
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"Mary, Mother av Mercy, fwhat the divil possist us to take an' kepe this melancolius counthry? Answer me that, sorr."
It was Mulvaney who was speaking. The time was one o'clock of a stifling June night, and the place was the main gate of Fort Amara, most desolate and least desirable of all fortresses in India. What I was doing there at that hour is a question which only concerns M'Grath the Sergeant of the Guard, and the men on the gate.
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"'Get back to your comp'ny,' sez he; 'you're insolint!'
"'All in good time,' sez I, 'but I'll have a dhrink first.'
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