Excerpt from The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling: In Black and White With your people that is truth, said I. But in regard to our people they desire new tales, and when all is written they rise up and declare that the tale were better told in such and such a man ner, and doubt either the truth or the invention thereof. But what folly is theirs said Gobind, throw ing out his knotted hand. A tale that is told is a true tale as long as the telling lasts. And of their talk upon it - you know how Bilas Khan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.