Table of Contents
General Preface vii
Introduction xii
Note on the Text xxiii
Select Bibliography xxx
A Chronology of Kipling's Life and Works xxxiii
Plain Tales From The Hills
Dedication 3
Preface 5
Lispeth 7
Three and-an Extra 12
Thrown Away 16
Miss Youghal's Sais 24
'Yoked with an Unbeliever' 30
False Dawn 35
The Rescue of Pluffles 43
Cupid's Arrows 48
The Three Musketeers 53
His Chance in Life 59
Watches of the Night 65
The Other Man 71
Consequences 75
The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin 81
The Taking of Lungtungpen 86
A Germ-Destroyer 92
Kidnapped 97
The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly 102
In the House of Suddhoo 108
His Wedded Wife 116
The Broken-Link Handicap 122
Beyond the Pale 127
In Error 133
A Bank Fraud 137
Tod's Amendment 144
The Daughter of the Regiment 150
In the Pride of his Youth 156
Pig 162
The Rout of the White Hussars 169
The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case 179
Venus Annodomini 185
The Bisara of Pooree 190
A Friend's Friend 195
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows 201
The Madness of Private Ortheris 207
The Story of Muhammad Din 215
On the Strength of a Likeness 218
Wressley of the Foreign Office 224
By Word of Mouth 229
To be Filed for Reference 234
Appendix A Bitters Neat 243
Appendix B Haunted Subalterns 247
Explanatory Notes 252
