Plain Tales from the Hills

This was a bit hit and miss. Lots of short stories, some linking through with repeated characters. Each of the stories is set in Simla (Shimla), the hill station where the British ‘Summered'.

I had to give the ones written in that gibberish that was intended as an Irish dialect, a miss. It was not well done, and made reading the story too painful to persist with, so I skipped over those (four, I think?) stories.
It was interesting that the narrator told some stories, and was involved in some stories, even comments to the reader in places.
Of the forty )approx) stories, there were a half dozen stories that were very good, twenty that were entertaining and readable, another ten that just didn't entertain, leaving the four unread stories mentioned above.
Overall, worth the read. I picked up a 1910 copy of this, and three other Kipling books, so I expect i will leave the other three for a while before tackling.