Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (1902)

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An Elephant's Child—who was full of 'satiable curtiosity.

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But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

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And the small 'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice, 'Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?' 'No,' said the Whale. 'What is it like?' 'Nice,' said the small 'Stute Fish. 'Nice but nubbly.'

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I keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.

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I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

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Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.

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When the cabin port-holes are dark and green
Because of the seas outside;
When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between)
And the steward falls into the soup-tureen,
And the trunks begin to slide;
When Nursey lies on the floor in a heap,
And Mummy tells you to let her sleep,
And you aren't waked or washed or dressed,
Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed)
You're 'Fifty North and Forty West!'

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One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes.... That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent...

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The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frost with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire.

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Before the High and Far-Off Times, O my Best Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings; and that was in the days when the Eldest Magician was getting Things ready. First he got the Earth ready; then he got the Sun ready; and then he told all the Animals that they could come out and play.

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