THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW AND OTHER TALES BY RUDYARD KIPLING Authorized Edition NEW YORK JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY 142 TO 150 WORTH STREET CORNER MISSION PLACE PREFACE. THIS is not exactly a book of downright ghost-stories as the cover makes belief. It is rather a collection of facts that never quite explained themselves. All that the collector is certain of is, that one man insisted upon dying because he believed himself to be haunted; another man either made up a wonderful lie and stuck to it, or visited a very strange place; while the third man was indubitably crucified by some person or persons unknown, and gave an extraordinary account of himself. The peculiarity of ghost-stories is that they are never told first-hand. I have managed, with infinite trouble, to secure one exception to this rule. It is not a very good |