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Title: Soldier Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Release Date: April 8, 2009 [EBook #28537]

Language: English

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SOLDIER STORIES

SOLDIER STORIES

BY

RUDYARD KIPLING

AUTHOR OF "PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS," "UNDER THE
DEODARS," "THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW," "WEE
WILLIE WINKIE," ETC., ETC.

_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS_

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1896

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1896,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

WITH THE MAIN GUARD 1

THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT 25

THE MAN WHO WAS 78

THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD 101

THE INCARNATION OF KRISHNA MULVANEY 139

THE TAKING OF LUNGTUNGPEN 182

THE MADNESS OF PRIVATE ORTHERIS 191

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS