Identifier: justsostoriesforkipling (find matches)
Title: Just so stories for litle children
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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urtiosity. Pooh, said the Elephants Child. I dontthink you peoples know anything about spank-ing; but / do, and Ill show you. Then he uncurled his trunk and knockedtwo of his dear brothers head over heels. O Bananas ! said they, where did youlearn that trick, and what have you done toyour nose ? I got a new one from the Crocodile on thebanks of the great grey-green, greasy LimpopoRiver, said the Elephants Child. I askedhim what he had for dinner, and he gave methis to keep. This is just a picture of the Elephants Child going to pull bananasoff a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long trunk. I dont thinkit is a very nice picture ; but I couldnt make it any better, becauseelephants and bananas are hard to draw. The streaky things behind theElephants Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa.The Elephants Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the mud thathe found there. I think it would look better if you painted the banana-tree green and the Elephants Child red. 78
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The Elephants Child 81 It looks very ugly, said his hairy uncle,the Baboon. It does, said the Elephants Child. Butits very useful, and he picked up his hairyuncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hovehim into a hornets nest. Then that bad Elephants Child spanked allhis dear families for a long time, till they werevery warm and greatly astonished. He pulledout his tall Ostrich aunts tail-feathers ; and hecaught his tall uncle, the Giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush;and he shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippo-potamus, and blew bubbles into her ear whenshe was sleeping in the water after meals; buthe never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird. At last things grew so exciting that his dearfamilies went off one by one in a hurry to thebanks of the great grey-green, greasy LimpopoRiver, all set about with fever-trees, to borrownew noses from the Crocodile. When they cameback nobody spanked anybody any more; andever since that day, O Best Beloved, all theElephants yo

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