''Traffics and Discoveries'' is a collection of poems and short stories by

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. ...

, published by

Macmillan and Co. Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ...

of London and Doubleday, Page of New York in 1904. Stories (11): * The Captive * The Bonds of Discipline * A Sahibs' War * "Their Lawful Occasions" (as Part I and Part II) * The Comprehension of Private Copper * Steam Tactics * "Wireless" *

The Army of a Dream "The Army of a Dream" is a speculative fiction short story written by Rudyard Kipling, published in the ''Morning Post'' in June 1904. In it Kipling puts forward various methods for reforming the British Army of the period. Plot The story begins ...

(as Part I and Part II) * "They" * Mrs. Bathurst * Below the Mill Dam One poem precedes each story, as in many Kipling collections: *''From the Masjid-Al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi)'' *''Poseidon's Law'' *''The Runners'' *''The Wet Litany'' *''The King's Task'' *''The Necessitarian'' *'' Kaspar's Song in "Varda"'' *''Song of the Old Guard'' *''The Return of the Children'' *''From Lyden's "Irenius"'' *''"Our Fathers Also"'' The use of italic font for all poem titles only follows the Contents list in the first edition (London: Macmillan and Co., 1904). The use of quotation marks follows that list, and also the story headings and running heads, except that the first edition uses single quotation marks throughout.

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