This transcription is of an 1899 American edition of a work first published in 1898 in England. The 12 stories it contains had all been published earlier in newspapers and periodicals. Original publication information, based on Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling (1927), by Flora V. Livingston, is given in the Notes for each story.
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