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Title: Plain Tales from the Hills

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Posting Date: November 3, 2008 [EBook #1858]
Release Date: August, 1999

Language: English

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Produced by Donald Lainson

PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS

By Rudyard Kipling

CONTENTS

LESPETH

THREE AND AN EXTRA

THROWN AWAY

MISS YOUGHAL'S SAIS

YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER

FALSE DAWN

THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES

CUPID'S ARROWS

HIS CHANCE IN LIFE

WATCHES OF THE NIGHT

THE OTHER MAN

CONSEQUENCES

THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN MCGOGGIN

A GERM DESTROYER

KIDNAPPED

THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY

THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO

HIS WEDDED WIFE

THE BROKEN LINK HANDICAPPED.

BEYOND THE PALE

IN ERROR

A BANK FRAUD

TOD'S AMENDMENT

IN THE PRIDE OF HIS YOUTH

PIG

THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS

THE BRONCKHORST DIVORCE-CASE

VENUS ANNODOMINI

THE BISARA OF POORER

THE GATE OF A HUNDRED SORROWS

THE STORY OF MUHAMMID DIN

ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS

WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE

BY WORD OF MOUTH

TO BE HELD FOR REFERENCE

PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS

LISPETH.

Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these
You bid me please?
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so!
To my own Gods I go.
It may be they shall give me greater ease
Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

The Convert.

She was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadeh his wife. One
year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only
poppy-field just above the Sutlej Valley on the Kotgarth side; so, next
season, they turned Christian, and brought their baby to the Mission
to be baptized. The Kotgarth Chaplain christened her Elizabeth, and
"Lispeth" is the Hill or pahari pronunciation.

Later, cholera