Jungle Tales

by B.M. Croker

Excerpt from Jungle Tales A Free-Will Offering.
"Kismiss," as the natives call it, is anything but a jovial and merry season to me, and I Heartily sympathize with those prudent souls who flee from the station or cantonment, and bury themselves afar off in the jungle, until the festive season has been succeeded by the practical New Year! Christmas in India is an expensive anniversary to a needy subaltern such as I am.

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1913

About the author

Bithia Mary (or May) Croker (née Sheppard, c. 1848-1920) was an Irish novelist, most of whose work concerns life and society in British India. Her 1917 novel The Road to Mandalay, set in Burma, was the uncredited basis for a 1926 American silent film, of which only excerpts survive. She was also a notable writer of ghost stories.
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