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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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is in the middle, learning how to bend,and that is why the shelly plates on his back are so spread apart. He isstanding on the Hedgehog, who is waiting to learn how to swim. TheHedgehog is a Japanesy Hedgehog, because I couldnt find our ownHedgehogs in the garden when I wanted to draw them. (It was daytime,and they had gone to bed under the dahlias.) Speckly Jaguar is lookingover the edge, with his paddy-paw carefully tied up by his mother, becausehe pricked himself scooping the Hedgehog. He is much surprised to seewhat the Tortoise is doing, and his paw is hurting him. The snoutything with the little eye that Speckly Jaguar is trying to climb over is theArmadillo that the Tortoise and the Hedgehog are going to turn intowhen they have finished bending and swimming. It is all a magic picture,and that is one of the reasons why I havent drawn the Jaguars whiskers.The other reason was that he was so young that his whiskers had notgrown. The Jaguars pet name with his Mummy was Doffies. 116
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H7 Beginning of the Armadillos 119 couldnt swim, swims, and the one that you saidcouldnt curl up, curls ; and theyve gone sharesin their prickles, I think, because both of themare scaly all over, instead of one being smoothand the other very prickly; and, besides that,they are rolling round and round in circles, andI dont feel comfy. Son, son! said Mother Jaguar ever so manytimes, graciously waving her tail, a Hedgehogis a Hedgehog, and cant be anything but aHedgehog; and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, andcan never be anything else. But it isnt a Hedgehog, and it isnt aTortoise. Its a little bit of both, and I dontknow its proper name. Nonsense ! said Mother Jaguar. Every-thing has its proper name. I should call itArmadillo till I found out the real one. AndI should leave it alone. So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especi-ally about leaving them alone; but the curiousthing is that from that day to this, O BestBeloved, no one on the banks of the turbidAmazon has ever called Stickly-Pric

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