Humorous tales from Rudyard Kipling /
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[1931]
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Table of Contents:
- The jest beheld with streaming eyes. Frontispiece [from] The necessitarian
- He told them tales [from] The legend of mirth
- 'Go on ye mad Irishman!' [from] The taking of Lungtungpen
- 'Not a woman of our village would look at him' [from] Moti Guj--mutineer
- He worried the thing off in a minute or two [from] The rout of the White Hussars
- Nobby drew his porpoise-harpoon, with line attached, in among the crew [from] The first sailor
- 'As she floats again I will fight you' [from] Judson and the empire
- 'Come forth, Namgay, Doola, and command the King's Army' [from] Namgay Doola
- 'You'll wait along o'me, you will' [from] My Sunday at home
- Pinecoffin found nothing to say save bad words [from] Pig
- 'Charged my horse from behind' [from The bull that thought]
- 'The minute they landed the natives all left' [from] A flight of fact
- Mrs. DeSussa began to cry [from] Private Learoyd's story
- 'Thou art half the height of the bat!' [from] The finances of the Gods
- Mr. Marsh's wizardry among the pots and pans [from] His gift
- 'I give this person in charge for assault' [from] The village that voted the earth was flat
- 'Idiots!' she said, and once more, 'Idiots!' [from] The puzzler
- 'I wud have you to know that I am a god' [from] The incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
- He furled the umbrella, and with it beat the prostrate Abdul [from] Little foxes
- 'Maybe 'twas the temptin'ness av his back or the whisky' [from] My lord the elephant
- The high silk hat crackled and the owner dropped like a log [from] 'Brugglesmith'
- The other six turned up at intervals among the visitors [from] The sending of Dana Da
- The Agent-General went out over the back of the car [from] The vortex.