Plain Tales from the Hills/Dedication and Preface
Appearance
TO
THE WITTIEST WOMAN
IN INDIA
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
PREFACEEight-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.