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'"Shtrip, bhoys," sez I. Shtrip to the buff, an' shwim in where glory waits!"': Archibald Standish Hartrick's first illustration to the story, from Kipling's 1896 collection, Soldier Tales.

'There was a melly av a sumpshus kind for a whoile.' – from the same.

"The Taking of Lungtungpen" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 11 April 1887. In book form, the story appeared in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.