The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

by Rudyard Kipling · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 8 · 2,071 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Ghost stories, English

Words worth knowing: lingo · matchlock · cob · illegible · personate · earshot · hyena · memento

THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW AND OTHER GHOST STORIES By Rudyard Kipling 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” THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest.

--Evening Hymn. One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability.

After five years’ service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred Civilians in his Province, all the Messes of ten or twelve Regiments and Batteries, and some fifteen hundred other people of the non-official caste.

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