The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes

Download or read book The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes written by Rudyard Kipling and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Literature Prize winner Rudyard Kipling pens this riveting adventure tale. One evening Morrowbie Jukes, an English gentleman, is feeling a bit feverish and the barking of the dogs outside his house is upsetting him. So he mounts his horse in order to pursue them. The horse bolts and they eventually fall into a sandy ravine on the edge of a river. He awakens the next morning to find himself in a village of the living dead, where people who appear to have died of, for instance, cholera, but who revived when their bodies were about to be burned, are imprisoned. He quickly learns that it is impossible to climb out because of the sandy slope...