Dedication and Preface
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| From Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) |
TO
THE WITTIEST WOMAN IN INDIA
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
PREFACE
EIGHT-AND-TWENTY of these tales appeared originally in the Civil and Military Gazette. I am indebted to the kindness of the Proprietors of that paper for permission to reprint them. The remaining tales are, more or less, new.
RUDYARD KIPLING.