Excerpt from The Heart of Little Shikara: And Other Stories I saw the sergeant of the jungle, Little Shikara said after one of these excursions. And this made no sense at all. There are none of the king's soldiers here, the brown village folk replied to him. Either thou liest to us, or thine eyes lied to thee. And didst thou also see the chevron that told his rank? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.