xx, 324 pages 19 cm

At head of title: The works of Rudyard Kipling

"Eight-and-twenty of these tales appeared originally in the Civil and military gazette"--Preface

Lispeth -- Three and -- an extra -- Thrown away -- Miss Youghal's Sais -- 'Yoked with an unbeliever' -- False dawn -- The rescue of Pluffles -- Cupid's arrows -- Haunted Subalterns -- The three musketeers -- His chance in life -- Watches of the night -- The other man -- Consequences -- The conversion of Aurelian McGoggin -- The taking of Lungtungpen -- Bitters neat -- A germ-destroyer -- Kidnapped -- The arrest of Lieutenant Golightly -- In the House of Suddhoo -- His wedded wife -- The broken-link handicap -- Beyond the pale -- In error -- A bank fraud -- Tods' amendment -- The daughter of the regiment -- In the pride of his youth -- Pig -- The rout of the White Hussars -- The Bronckhorst divorce-case -- Venus annodomini -- The Bisara of Pooree -- A friend's friend -- The gate of the hundred sorrows -- The madness of Private Ortheris -- The story of Muhammad Din -- On the strength of a likeness -- Wressley of the Foreign Office -- By word of mouth -- To be filed for reference

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