Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by
Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's
Preface, were initially published in the
Civil and Military Gazette in
Lahore,
Punjab,
British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the
CMG—his first job—since 1882, when he was not quite 17.)