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Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Volume I (Classic Reprint)
Selected Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume I - Classic Reprint Author:Rudyard Kipling SOLDIERS THREE THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE Hit a man an' help a woman, an' ye can't bo far wroogaay ways. -Maxims of Private Mulvaney The Inexpressibles gave a ball. They borrowed a seven-pounder from the Gunners, and wreathed it with laurels, and made the dancing-floor plate-glass, and provided a supper, the like of which had never been eaten befo... more »ro, and set two sentries at the door of the room to hold the tra)'s and programme cards. My friend, Private Mulvaney, was one of the sentries, because he was the tallest man in the regiment. When the dance was fairly started the sentries were released, and Private Mulvaney fled to curry favor with the mess sergeant in charge of the supper. Whether the mess sergeant gave, or Mulvaney took, I cannot say. All that I am certain of is that, at supper-time, I found Mulvaney with Private Ortheris, two-thirds of a ham, a loaf of bread, half a pate de foie gras, and two magnums of champagne, sitting on the roof of my carriage.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; VOLUME ONE;
SOLDIERS THREE; The God from the Machine 7; Private Learoyd's Story 1*; The Big Drunk Draf' 25; The Solid Muldoon 35; With the Main Guard 45; In the Matter of a Private 60; Black Jack 70; L'Envoi 89; Only a Subaltern 90;
IN BLACK AND WHITE; Dray Wara Yow Dee 109; The Judgment of Dungara 119; At Howli Thana 138; Gemini 133; At Twenty-two 142; In Flood Time 153; The Sending of Dana Dee; On the City Wall 178;
THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS; Poor Dear Mamma 199; The World Without 209; The Tents of Kedar 319; With any Amazement 230; The Garden of Eden 240; Fatima 249; The Valley of the Shadow 262; The Swelling of Jordan 272; L'Envoi 282;
THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW AND OTHER TALES; The Phantom 'Rickshaw 283; My Own True Ghost Story 308; The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes 317; The Man who would be King 341;