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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

#12 (of 446) BEST OF 1001 GARM-A HOSTAGE by RUDYARD KIPLING

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A humorous Rudyard Kipling story based upon his time serving the military in India when it was a British colony. The narrator is an officer who has been given an extremely intelligent bull terrier by a subordinate whose career he saved after a drunken incident. The officer tries to find ways to return the dog to his owner but the owner keeps refusing, believing he has to serve "penance" for his mistakes..

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Promo. And the The Welcome back everyone to a new year and to one thousand one classic short stories and

1:03.5

tales our first story of the year garm hostage it's a dog story that I think you'll

1:08.8

enjoy very much one night a very long time ago I drove to an Indian military cantonment called

1:16.4

Myanmar to see amateur theatricals. At the back of the infantry barracks a soldier

1:21.6

his cap over one eye rushed in front of the infantry barracks, a soldier, his cap over one eye, rushed in front of the horses and shouted

1:25.0

that he was a dangerous highway robber.

1:27.5

As a matter of fact, he was a friend of mine, so I told him to go home before anyone

1:31.5

caught him, but he fell under the pole and I heard

1:34.2

voices of a military guard in search of someone.

1:37.7

The driver and I coached my friend to the carriage, drove home swiftly, undressed him and put

1:42.4

him to bed, where he waked next morning with a sore headache, very much ashamed.

1:47.0

When his uniform was cleaned and dried, and he had been shaved and washed and made neat,

1:52.0

I drove him back to barracks with his arm and a fine white sling

1:55.2

and reported that I accidentally run over him.

1:58.0

I did not tell this story to my friends a sergeant who was a hostile and

2:01.3

unbelieving person, but to his lieutenant, who did not know us quite so well.

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