Rudyard Kipling. Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
PREFACE
THE LANG MEN O’ LARUT
REINGELDER AND THE GERMAN FLAG
THE WANDERING JEW
THROUGH THE FIRE
THE FINANCES OF THE GODS
THE AMIR’S HOMILY
JEWS IN SHUSHAN
THE LIMITATIONS OF PAMBE SERANG
LITTLE TOBRAH
BUBBLING WELL ROAD
‘THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT’
GEORGIE PORGIE
NABOTH
THE DREAM OF DUNCAN PARRENNESS
THE INCARNATION OF KRISHNA MULVANEY
THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD
ON GREENHOW HILL
THE MAN WHO WAS
THE HEAD OF THE DISTRICT
WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY
AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE
THE MUTINY OF THE MAVERICKS
THE MARK OF THE BEAST
THE RETURN OF IMRAY
NAMGAY DOOLA
BURTRAN AND BIMI
MOTI GUJ – MUTINEER
L’ENVOI
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The Chief Engineer’s sleeping suit was of yellow striped with blue, and his speech was the speech of Aberdeen. They sluiced the deck under him, and he hopped on to the ornamental capstan, a black pipe between his teeth, though the hour was not seven of the morn.
‘Did you ever hear o’ the Lang Men o’ Larut?’ he asked when the Man from Orizava had finished a story of an aboriginal giant discovered in the wilds of Brazil. There was never story yet passed the lips of teller, but the Man from Orizava could cap it.
