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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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ickly. Remember that, because its important. But, said the Tortoise, when you paw yourmeat you drop it into a Tortoise with a scoop.Why cant you understand ? This is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in Red and Black.It hasnt anything to do with the story except that there are two Arma-dillos in it—up by the top. The inciting part are the adventures thathappened to the men who went along the road marked in red. I meant todraw Armadillos when I began the map, and I meant to draw manateesand spider-tailed monkeys and big snakes and lots of Jaguars, but it wasmore inciting to do the map and the venturesome adventures in red. Youbegin at the bottom left-hand corner and follow the little arrows allabout, and then you come quite round again to where the adventuresomepeople went home in a ship called the l^oyal Tiger. This is a mostadventuresome picture, and all the adventures are told about in writing,so you can be quite sure which is an adventure and which is a tree ora boat. 104
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105 Beginning of the Armadillos 107 You are making my spots ache, said PaintedJaguar ; and besides, I didnt want your adviceat all. I only wanted to know which of you isHedgehog and which is Tortoise. I shant tell you, said Stickly - Prickly. but you can scoop me out of my shell if youlike. Aha ! said Painted Jaguar. Now I knowyoure Tortoise. You thought I wouldnt !Now I will. Painted Jaguar darted out hispaddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curled himselfup, and of course Jaguars paddy-paw was justfilled with prickles. Worse than that, heknocked Stickly-Prickly away and away into thewoods and the bushes, where it was too dark tofind him. Then he put his paddy-paw into hismouth, and of course the prickles hurt himworse than ever. As soon as he could speak hesaid, Now I know he isnt Tortoise at all.But—and then he scratched his head withhis un-prickly paw— how do I know that thisother is Tortoise ? But I am Tortoise, said Slow-and-Solid. Your mother was quite right. She said thatyou w

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