Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling

(although he was a Tewara). Behind them came the Head Chief, the Vice-Chief, the Deputy and Assistant Chie ...

he hopped on one foot. ‘I wanted the Stranger-man to fetch Daddy’s spear, so I drawded it,’ said Taffy. ‘Ther ...

I suppose it is all Taffy’s fault), very few little girls have ever liked learning to read or write. M ...

HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best ...

‘Really?’ said her Daddy, in the voice that grown-ups use when they are truly attending. ‘Go on, Taffy.’ ‘O ...

or a stone. So an egg or a stone will do for that.’ ‘You can’t always find eggs or stones. We’l ...

‘And still it would be just the same as if you stood there and said, “G’way, Taffy, or you’ll get feve ...

made thin.’ ‘Then s’pose we draw a thin round egg, and pretend it’s a frog that hasn’t eaten an ...

finishing as well as ending, doesn’t it?’ ‘So it does,’ said Tegumai. ‘To-las means that there’s no water ...

on the wall and giggling together till her Mummy said, ‘Really, Tegumai, you’re worse than my Taffy ...

And after thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and after Hieroglyphics and Demotics, and N ...

THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA BEFORE the High and Far-Off Times, O my Best Beloved, came the Tim ...

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician, meaning, ‘That is quite right’; and he breathed upon the great r ...

after it, so that there is nothing left but mud, and my canoe is upset. Is that the play you told ...

Sea before you had taught him his play. And the Eldest Magician said, ‘How wise are little children who see an ...

moonlight. There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma—for he was the King Crab of all Crabs. Not a ...

Then Pau Amma said, ‘That is good, but I do not choose yet. Look! there is that Man who talked to y ...

can eat nuts. I can crack shells. I can dig holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe in the dry air, and I c ...

babies make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under every stone and bunch of weed on the sands; you can s ...

THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, ...