Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling

And the Elephant’s Child’s nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant’s Child spread all his little four legs an ...

couldn’t have done that with a mere-smear nose. Try and eat a little now.’ Before he thought what he ...

trunk and said, ‘How do you do?’ They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, ...

I Keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) T ...

THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal ...

salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds; he ran through the blue gums; he ran through the spinifex; he ran till ...

Down sat Dingo—Poor Dog Dingo—always hungry, dusky in the sunshine; hung out his tongue and howled. Down sat Ka ...

Hadn’t been given a name. They ran thirty degrees, From Torres S ...

THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times. In ...

uncoils.’ ‘I don’t think it was at all like that,’ said Painted Jaguar, but he felt a little puzzled; ‘bu ...

‘I don’t know, because I’ve never been scooped out of my shell before; but I tell you truly, if you want ...

‘now attend to me and remember what I say. A Hedgehog curls himself up into a ball and his prickl ...

shouldn’t know you from one of my own family. Two holes, I think, you said? A little more expression, please ...

Solid. ‘Why are you so rude and forgetful to-day?’ ‘Don’t you remember what your mother told you?’ sai ...

I’ve never seen a Jaguar, Nor yet an Armadill O dilloing ...

HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jut ...

‘It’s too far for your little fat legs,’ said Tegumai. ‘Besides, you might fall into the beaver-swamp and ...

wonderful child. She waves her arms and she shouts at me, but I don’t understand a word ...

you, and I’ve put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand, just to remind you that you’re to ...

hard, so that he panted, and his legs were scratched with brambles, but he still tried to be polite. As ...