Rudyard Kipling 
The Courting of Dinah Shadd 

‘The Courting of Dinah Shadd’ is one of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Soldier Stories.’ The narrator camps out with his troops, and as they begin to settle, one of his comrades, Terance Mulvaney, an Irishmen, starts telling the story of how he met his wife, Dinah Shadd. As the story moves forward, the reader understands what the narrator already knows.