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Beginning of the Armadilloes Kipling, Rudyard
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1902

JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN

THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOES

by Rudyard Kipling








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THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and
Far-Off
Times. In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly
Hedgehog, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating
shelly snails and things. And he had a friend, a Slow-Solid
Tortoise, who lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating green
lettuces and things. And so оthatп * was all right, Best Beloved. Do
you see?
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* In DOS versions italicized text is enclosed in оchevrons.п
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But also, and at the same time, in those High and Far-Off Times,
there was a Painted Jaguar, and he lived on the banks of the turbid
Amazon too; and he ate everything that he could catch. When he could
not catch deer or monkeys he would eat frogs and beetles; and when
he could not catch frogs and beetles he went to his Mother Jaguar, and
she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises.
She said to him ever so many times, graciously waving her tail,
'My son, when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and
then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop
him out of his shell with your paw.' And so that was all right, Best
Beloved.
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One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted