SOLDIERS THREE

by Rudyard Kipling




CONTENTS

"LOVE-O'-WOMEN" - from "Many Inventions"
THE BIG DRUNK DRAF'
THE MUTINY OF THE MAVERICKS
THE MAN WHO WAS
ONLY A SUBALTERN
IN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATE
THE LOST LEGION - from "Many Inventions"
THE DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT
JUDSON AND THE EMPIRE - from "Many Inventions"
A CONFERENCE OF THE POWERS - from "Many Inventions"




'LOVE-O'WOMEN'

A lamentable tale of things
Done long ago, and ill done.

The horror, the confusion, and the separation
of the murderer from his comrades were all over before I came.