SHORT STORIES BY RUSKIN BOND 1. A Bicycle Ride With Uncle Ken 2. A Crow for All Seasons 3. A Crow in the House 4. A Dream of Gardens 5. A Face in the Dark 6. A Face in the Night 7. A Gentle Adventurer 8. A Great Soldier: Benoit de Boigne 9. A Guardian Angel 10. A Hill Station’s Vintage Murders 11. A Hornbill Called Harold 12. A Job Well Done 13. A Knock at the Door 14. A Little World of Mud 15. A Long Story 16. A Long Walk for Bina 17. A long Walk with Granny 18. A Love of Long Ago 19. A Meeting by Moonlight 20. A Narrow Escape 21. A New Flower 22. A Photograph 23. A Rupee Goes a Long Way 24. A Station for Scandal 25. A Steal of Clothes 26. A Sweet Savour 27. A Tiger in the House 28. A Wayside Teashop 29. A Week in the Jungle 30. Adventure in the Banyan Tree 31. After the Monsoon 32. All About my Walkabouts 33. All Creatures Great and Small 34. All my Writing Days 35. All You Need Is Paper 36. Alone In the World 37. An English Jester at the Moghul Court 38. And at the Bank 39. And in the Loo 40. Animals on the Track 41. As Time Goes By 42. At Sea with Uncle Ken 43. Bansi and the Ayah 44. Bat – Poem 45. Battles Long Ago 46. Bear in the Ball Room 47. Belting around Mumbai 48. Best of All Windows 49. Better to Have a Bird in the Bush 50. Bhabiji and Her Family 51. Bhabiji’s House 52. Binya 53. Binya Passes By 54. Bitter Gooseberries 55. Boy Scouts Forever 56. Bus Stop, Pipalnagar 57. By the Fireside 58. Cahchi’s Funeral 59. Calypso Christmas 60. Claude Martine: A Frenchman at the Court of Oudh 61. Coaxing a Garden from Himalayan Soil 62. Colonel Gardner and the Princes of Cambay 63. Coming Home to Dehra 64. Cricket for the Crocodile 65. Dacoits Outside Jaipur 66. Dead Man’s Gift 67. Death of a Familiar 68. Death of the Trees 69. Dragon in the Tunnel 70. Dukhi and the Maharani 71. Dust on the Mountain 72. Elephant Rock-and-Roll 73. Escape from Java 74. Eye of the Eagle 75. Eyes of the Cat 76. Faraway Places 77. Four Boys on a Glacier 78. From Small Beginnings 79. From the Pool to the Glacier 80. From the Primaeval Past 81. Ganpat’s Story 82. Gems from a Bygone Era 83. George and Ranji 84. Getting Granny’s Glasses 85. Ghost Trouble 86. Ghosts of the Savoy 87. Glories of the Hookah 88. Going Home 89. Gone Fishing 90. Grand Plans for Momabasa 91. Grandfather Fights an Ostrich 92. Grandfather’s Earthquake 93. Grandfather’s Many Faces 94. Grandfather’s Private Zoo 95. Granny’s Fabulous Kitchen 96. Granny’s Pickles 97. Great Spirits of the Trees 98. Great Trees I Have Known 99. Hanging at the Mango-Tope 100. Hazoor Ali 101. He Said it with Arsenic 102. Henry: A Chameleon 103. Here Comes Mr. Oliver 104. HH 105. Hill of the Fairies 106. Hills and Beyond 107. His Neighbour’s Wife 108. Home 109. How Far Is the River? 110. In a Crystal Ball: A Mussoorie Mystery 111. In Praise of Older Women 112. In Search of John Lang 113. In Search of Sweet-peas 114. Interlude in Chandni Chowk 115. It Happened One Spring 116. It Must Be in the Mountains (Play) 117. Jamnagar 118. Jumbo and the Cassowary 119. Keemat Lal 120. Kipling’s Simla 121. Kishan Singh 122. Kishen Again 123. Koki Plays the Game 124. Koki’s Song 125. Life with Uncle Ken 126. Listen to the Wind 127. Love and Cricket 128. Love is a Sad Song 129. Masterji 130. Meetings on the Tehri Road 131. Miss Babcock’s Big Toe 132. Miss Bun and Others 133. Monkey on the Roof 134. Monkey Trouble 135. Most Beautiful 136. Mother Hill 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. 181. 182. 183. 184. 185. Mountains Are Kind to Writers Mountains In My Blood Mukesh Keeps a Goat Mukesh Starts a Zoo Mukesh’s Brush with Art World Mussoorie’s Landour Bazaar My Failed Omelettes My Father and I My Father’s Trees in Dehra My First Love My Mother Night of the Millennium Of Tigers and Bullock Carts On Fairy Hill On Foot with Faith On the Road with Mumta Once Upon a Mountain Time Our Great Escape Panther’s Moon Picnic at Fox-Burn Pistols at Twenty Paces: A duel at Poona Prem Ranji’s Wonderful Bat Reunion at Regal Riding Through the Flames Running Away Saga of a Soldier Seven Brides for Seven Princes – Retold Sitaram Skinner and His Yellow Boys Snake Trouble Some Early Australian Ghosts (Retold) Something in the Water Somi and Rusty Song of the Whistling Thrush Sounds of the Sea Susanna’s Seven Husbands Tea at the Dhaba The Adventures of Toto The Banyan Tree The Big Race The Black Cat The Box Man The Boy Who Broke the Bank The Chameleon with an Attitude The Cherry Tree The Company’s Wines The Conceited Python The Coral Tree 186. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. 192. 193. 194. 195. 196. 197. 198. 199. 200. 201. 202. 203. 204. 205. 206. 207. 208. 209. 210. 211. 212. 213. 214. 215. 216. 217. 218. 219. 220. 221. 222. 223. 224. 225. 226. 227. 228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. The Crooked Tree The Daffodil Case The Earthquake The Elephant and the Cassowary The Eyes Have It The Eyes of the Eagle The Face in the Dark The Family Ghost The Fight The Flute Player The Four Feathers The Friendship of Heera and Lal – Retold The Funeral The Garden of Memories The Garlands on His Brow The Ghost in the Garden The Ghost Who Got In The Girl from Copenhagen The Girl on the Train The Good Old days The Great Train Journey The Haunted Bicycle The Haunted Bungalow The Himalaya Club (by John Lang) The Joy of Water The King and the Tree-Goddess The Kitemaker The Lady of Sardhana The Last Time I Saw Delhi The Last Truck Ride The Leopard – BRB The Long Day The Man Who Was Kipling The Monkeys The Most Potent Medicine of All The Night the Roof Blew Off The Night Train at Deoli The Old Lama The Open Road The Overcoat The Parrot Who Wouldn’t Talk The Photograph The Playing Fields of Simla The Prize The Prospect of Flowers The Regimental Myna The Road to Anjani Sain The Road to the Bazaar The Romance of the Mail Runner The Room of Many Colours 236. 237. 238. 239. 240. 241. 242. 243. 244. 245. 246. 247. 248. 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254. 255. 256. 257. 258. 259. 260. 261. 262. 263. 264. 265. 266. 267. 268. 269. 270. 271. 272. 273. 274. 275. 276. 277. 278. 279. 280. 281. 282. 283. 284. 285. 286. The Story of ‘Bombay Church’ The Story of a Hill Station The Story of Karnal The Story of Madhu The Summer Season The Thief The Tiger in the Tunnel The Tomb and City of Tughlaq Shah The Trail to the Bank The Tree Lover The Trouble with Jinns The Tunnel The Vision The Visitor The Wind on the Haunted Hill The Window The Wise Parrot – Retold The Woman on Platform No. 8 The Zigzag Walk These I have Loved Three Bears Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright Time Stops at Shamli Topaz Trapped by a Tiger Travels with my Bank Manager Tribute to a Dead Friend Uncle Ken Uncle Ken at the Wheel Uncle Ken at the Wicket Uncle Ken Does Nothing Uncle Ken Goes Birdwatching Uncle Ken on the Job Uncle Ken’s Feathered Bees Uncle Ken’s Rumble in the Jungle Untouchable Up at Sisters Bazaar Upon An Old Wall Dreaming Voting at Barlowganj We Capture a Ghost What’s Your Dream? Whatever Happened to Romance? When Darkness Falls When Grandfather Tickled a Tiger When the Guavas are Ripe When the Lamp Is Lit When You Can’t Climb Trees Anymore Where Rivers Meet Where the Grass Grows Greener Whispering in the Dark Whistling in the Dark 287. 288. 289. 290. 291. White Mice Who Kissed me in the Dark? Wilson’s Bridge Would Astley Return? Zoffany’s Last Super