Humorous tales from Rudyard Kipling /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cleaver, Reginald
Other Authors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Format: Photo
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; [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.