Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

"The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat" is one of Kipling's rare humorous stories. A group of friends out for a motor jaunt find themselves up on a trumped up speeding charge exacerbated by some outrageously insulting sarcasm from a country town magistrate. The group pit their ample wits and resources to exact their extraordinary revenge...