The Phantom 'Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Author:Rudyard Kipling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Phantom 'Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling, EBK ISBN: 9781909676466, Fantastica, 144pp, A selection of Kipling's ghost stories including: The Phantom 'Rickshaw, My Own True Ghost Story, The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The Man Who Would Be King, The Finest Story in the World.Rudyard Kipling, was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the 19th and 20th centuries., A noble prize winner, he is most famous for his adventure tales and poems. He was born in Bombay, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling's best work include: The Jungle Book (ISBN:9781909676534), The Second Jungle Book (ISBN: 9781909676558), Just So Stories (ISBN: 9781909676541), Kim (ISBN: 9781909676527).Kipling, Ghost, ghost stories, paranormal, adventure, apparitions, goblins, magic
Publisher: Fantastica
Published: 2013-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

(One) That me and you will settle this matter

together; i.e., to be Kings of Kafiristan.

(Two) That you and me will not, while this

matter is being settled, look at any

Liquor, nor any Woman, black, white,

or brown, so as to get mixed up with

one or the other harmful.

(Three) That we conduct ourselves with Dignity

and Discretion, and if one of us gets

into trouble the other will stay by him.

Signed by you and me this day.

Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan.

Daniel Dravot.

Both Gentlemen at Large.

“There was no need for the last article,” said Carnehan, blushing modestly; “but it looks regular. Now you know the sort of men that loafers are,—we are loafers, Dan, until we get out of India,—and do you think that we would sign a Contrack like that unless we was in earnest? We have kept away from the two things that make life worth having.”

“You won’t enjoy your lives much longer if you are going to try this idiotic adventure. Don’t set the office on fire,” I said, “and go away before nine o’clock.”

I left them still poring over the maps and making notes on the back of the “Contrack.” “Be sure to come down to the Serai to-morrow,” were their parting words.

The Kumharsen Serai is the great foursquare sink of humanity where the strings of camels and horses from the North load and unload. All the nationalities of Central Asia may be found there, and most of the folk of India proper. Balkh and Bokhara there meet Bengal and Bombay, and try to draw eye-teeth. You can buy ponies, turquoises, Persian pussy-cats, saddle-bags, fat-tailed sheep, and musk in the Kumharsen Serai, and get many strange things for nothing. In the afternoon I went down to see whether my friends intended to keep their word or were lying there drunk.

A priest attired in fragments of ribbons and rags stalked up to me, gravely twisting a child’s paper whirligig. Behind him was his servant bending under the load of a crate of mud toys. The two were loading up two camels, and the inhabitants of the Serai watched them with shrieks of laughter.

“The priest is mad,” said a horse-dealer to me. “He is going up to Kabul to sell toys to the Amir. He will either be raised to honour or have his head cut off. He came in here this morning and has been behaving madly ever since.”

“The witless are under the protection of God,” stammered a flat-cheeked Usbeg in broken Hindi. “They foretell future events.”

“Would they could have foretold that my caravan would have been cut up by the Shinwaris almost within shadow of the Pass!” grunted the Eusufzai agent of a Rajputana trading-house whose goods had been diverted into the hands of other robbers just across the Border, and whose misfortunes were the laughing-stock of the bazaar. “Ohé, priest, whence come you and whither do you go?”

“From Roum have I come,” shouted the priest, waving his whirligig; “from Roum, blown by the breath of a hundred devils across the sea! O thieves,

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