Plain Tales from the Hills/Dedication and Preface

by Rudyard Kipling

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.