THE SOLID MULDOON

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, who wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. The Kipling’s writer masterpiece characterized by portrayals of people, history, and culture of his time, so Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

“The Solid Muldoon” is a story written by Rudyard Kipling about a Mulvaney who tells a tale of his youth, when he was a corporal and "the divil av a man". He had tried to get a kiss from the attractive Annie Bragin. who turned him down, encountered the ghost of a soldier whose wife had died of cholera, and fought with Annie's husband. "...the times that was...".