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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
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+Title: Just So Stories
+
+Author: Rudyard Kipling
+
+Illustrator: Joseph M. Gleeson
+
+Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32488]
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+Language: English
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+[Illustration: JUST SO STORIES]
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+[Illustration: How the Whale Got His Throat]
+
+Transcriber's Note: Not being able to ascertain which words were Kipling
+being clever and which were his printer's creativity, all spelling
+anomalies except the few glaringly obvious ones noted at the end have
+been retained. For example, "He married ever so many wifes" was retained
+on page 227. For the HTML version, the page images have been included so
+that the reader may make comparisons.
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+
+JVST SO STORIES
+
+BY RVDYARD KIPLING
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Pictures by Joseph M. Gleeson_
+
+          Doubleday Page & Company
+          1912
+
+
+
+
+          Copyright, 1912, by Rudyard Kipling
+
+          "Just So Stories," have also been copyrighted
+          separately as follows: How the Whale Got His Tiny
+          Throat. Copyright, 1897, by the Century Company.
+          How the Camel Got His Hump. Copyright, 1897, by
+          the Century Company. How the Rhinoceros Got His
+          Wrinkly Skin. Copyright, 1898, by the Century
+          Company. The Elephant's Child. Copyright, 1900, by
+          Rudyard Kipling; Copyright, 1900, by the Curtis
+          Publishing Company. The Beginning of the
+          Armadillos. Copyright, 1900, by Rudyard Kipling.
+          The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo. Copyright, 1900
+          by Rudyard Kipling. How the Leopard Got His Spots,
+          Copyright, 1901, by Rudyard Kipling. How the First
+          Letter Was Written. Copyright, 1901, by Rudyard
+          Kipling. The Cat That Walked by Himself,
+          Copyright, 1902, by Rudyard Kipling.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                     PAGE
+
+          How the Whale Got His Throat                  1
+
+          How the Camel Got His Hump                   15
+
+          How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin              29
+
+          How the Leopard Got His Spots                43
+
+          The Elephant's Child                         63
+
+          The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo            85
+
+          The Beginning of the Armadillos             101
+
+          How the First Letter was Written            123
+
+          How the Alphabet was Made                   145
+
+          The Crab that Played with the Sea           171
+
+          The Cat that Walked by Himself              197
+
+          The Butterfly that Stamped                  225
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT
+
+
+IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and
+he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the
+dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the
+mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All
+the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth--so! Till
+at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a
+small 'Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale's right ear, so
+as to be out of harm's way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and
+said, 'I'm hungry.' 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.'
+
+'Then fetch me some,' said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with
+his tail.
+
+'One at a time is enough,' said the 'Stute Fish. 'If you swim to
+latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will
+find, sitting _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the sea, with nothing
+on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must
+_not_ forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one
+shipwrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity.'
+
+So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty
+West, as fast as he could swim, and _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the
+sea, _with_ nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a
+pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best
+Beloved), _and_ a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked
+Mariner, trailing his toes in the water. (He had his mummy's leave to
+paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity.)
+
+Then the Whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly
+touched his tail, and he swallowed the shipwrecked Mariner, and the raft
+he was sitting on, and his blue canvas breeches, and the suspenders
+(which you _must_ not forget), _and_ the jack-knife--He swallowed them
+all down into his warm, dark, inside cupboards, and then he smacked his
+lips--so, and turned round three times on his tail.
+
+But as soon as the Mariner, who was a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity, found himself truly inside the Whale's
+warm, dark, inside cupboards, he stumped and he jumped and he thumped
+and he bumped, and he pranced and he danced, and he banged and he
+clanged, and he hit and he bit, and he leaped and he creeped, and he
+prowled and he howled, and he hopped and he dropped, and he cried and
+he sighed, and he crawled and he bawled, and he stepped and he lepped,
+and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn't, and the Whale felt most
+unhappy indeed. (_Have_ you forgotten the suspenders?)
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Whale swallowing the Mariner
+with his infinite-resource-and-sagacity, and the raft and the jack-knife
+_and_ his suspenders, which you must _not_ forget. The buttony-things
+are the Mariner's suspenders, and you can see the knife close by them.
+He is sitting on the raft, but it has tilted up sideways, so you don't
+see much of it. The whity thing by the Mariner's left hand is a piece of
+wood that he was trying to row the raft with when the Whale came along.
+The piece of wood is called the jaws-of-a-gaff. The Mariner left it
+outside when he went in. The Whale's name was Smiler, and the Mariner
+was called Mr. Henry Albert Bivvens, A.B. The little 'Stute Fish is
+hiding under the Whale's tummy, or else I would have drawn him. The
+reason that the sea looks so ooshy-skooshy is because the Whale is
+sucking it all into his mouth so as to suck in Mr. Henry Albert Bivvens
+and the raft and the jack-knife and the suspenders. You must never
+forget the suspenders.]
+
+So he said to the 'Stute Fish, 'This man is very nubbly, and besides
+he is making me hiccough. What shall I do?'
+
+'Tell him to come out,' said the 'Stute Fish.
+
+So the Whale called down his own throat to the shipwrecked Mariner,
+'Come out and behave yourself. I've got the hiccoughs.'
+
+'Nay, nay!' said the Mariner. 'Not so, but far otherwise. Take me to my
+natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and I'll think about it.'
+And he began to dance more than ever.
+
+'You had better take him home,' said the 'Stute Fish to the Whale. 'I
+ought to have warned you that he is a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity.'
+
+[Illustration: HERE is the Whale looking for the little 'Stute Fish, who
+is hiding under the Door-sills of the Equator. The little 'Stute Fish's
+name was Pingle. He is hiding among the roots of the big seaweed that
+grows in front of the Doors of the Equator. I have drawn the Doors of
+the Equator. They are shut. They are always kept shut, because a door
+ought always to be kept shut. The ropy-thing right across is the Equator
+itself; and the things that look like rocks are the two giants Moar and
+Koar, that keep the Equator in order. They drew the shadow-pictures on
+the doors of the Equator, and they carved all those twisty fishes under
+the Doors. The beaky-fish are called beaked Dolphins, and the other fish
+with the queer heads are called Hammer-headed Sharks. The Whale never
+found the little 'Stute Fish till he got over his temper, and then they
+became good friends again.]
+
+So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his
+tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the
+Mariner's natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed
+half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and
+said, 'Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations
+on the _Fitch_burg Road;' and just as he said 'Fitch' the Mariner walked
+out of his mouth. But while the Whale had been swimming, the Mariner,
+who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, had taken his
+jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running
+criss-cross, and he had tied it firm with his suspenders (_now_ you know
+why you were not to forget the suspenders!), and he dragged that grating
+good and tight into the Whale's throat, and there it stuck! Then he
+recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard it, I will
+now proceed to relate--
+
+          By means of a grating
+          I have stopped your ating.
+
+For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an. And he stepped out on the
+shingle, and went home to his mother, who had given him leave to trail
+his toes in the water; and he married and lived happily ever afterward.
+So did the Whale. But from that day on, the grating in his throat, which
+he could neither cough up nor swallow down, prevented him eating
+anything except very, very small fish; and that is the reason why whales
+nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls.
+
+The small 'Stute Fish went and hid himself in the mud under the
+Door-sills of the Equator. He was afraid that the Whale might be angry
+with him.
+
+The Sailor took the jack-knife home. He was wearing the blue canvas
+breeches when he walked out on the shingle. The suspenders were left
+behind, you see, to tie the grating with; and that is the end of _that_
+tale.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          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!'
+
+[Illustration: How the Camel Got His Hump]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP
+
+
+NOW this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump.
+
+In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the
+Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he
+lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work;
+and besides, he was a Howler himself. So he ate sticks and thorns and
+tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most 'scruciating idle; and when
+anybody spoke to him he said 'Humph!' Just 'Humph!' and no more.
+
+Presently the Horse came to him on Monday morning, with a saddle on his
+back and a bit in his mouth, and said, 'Camel, O Camel, come out and
+trot like the rest of us.'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Horse went away and told the Man.
+
+Presently the Dog came to him, with a stick in his mouth, and said,
+'Camel, O Camel, come and fetch and carry like the rest of us.'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Dog went away and told the Man.
+
+Presently the Ox came to him, with the yoke on his neck and said,
+'Camel, O Camel, come and plough like the rest of us.'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Ox went away and told the Man.
+
+At the end of the day the Man called the Horse and the Dog and the Ox
+together, and said, 'Three, O Three, I'm very sorry for you (with the
+world so new-and-all); but that Humph-thing in the Desert can't work, or
+he would have been here by now, so I am going to leave him alone, and
+you must work double-time to make up for it.'
+
+That made the Three very angry (with the world so new-and-all), and
+they held a palaver, and an _indaba_, and a _punchayet_, and a pow-wow
+on the edge of the Desert; and the Camel came chewing milkweed _most_
+'scruciating idle, and laughed at them. Then he said 'Humph!' and went
+away again.
+
+Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling
+in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic),
+and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three.
+
+'Djinn of All Deserts,' said the Horse, '_is_ it right for any one to be
+idle, with the world so new-and-all?'
+
+'Certainly not,' said the Djinn.
+
+'Well,' said the Horse, 'there's a thing in the middle of your Howling
+Desert (and he's a Howler himself) with a long neck and long legs, and
+he hasn't done a stroke of work since Monday morning. He won't trot.'
+
+'Whew!' said the Djinn, whistling, 'that's my Camel, for all the gold in
+Arabia! What does he say about it?'
+
+'He says "Humph!"' said the Dog; 'and he won't fetch and carry.'
+
+'Does he say anything else?'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Djinn making the beginnings
+of the Magic that brought the Humph to the Camel. First he drew a line
+in the air with his finger, and it became solid; and then he made a
+cloud, and then he made an egg--you can see them both at the bottom of
+the picture--and then there was a magic pumpkin that turned into a big
+white flame. Then the Djinn took his magic fan and fanned that flame
+till the flame turned into a magic by itself. It was a good Magic and a
+very kind Magic really, though it had to give the Camel a Humph because
+the Camel was lazy. The Djinn in charge of All Deserts was one of the
+nicest of the Djinns, so he would never do anything really unkind.]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'Only "Humph!"; and he won't plough,' said the Ox.
+
+'Very good,' said the Djinn. 'I'll humph him if you will kindly wait a
+minute.'
+
+The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across
+the desert, and found the Camel most 'scruciatingly idle, looking at his
+own reflection in a pool of water.
+
+'My long and bubbling friend,' said the Djinn, 'what's this I hear of
+your doing no work, with the world so new-and-all?'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel.
+
+The Djinn sat down, with his chin in his hand, and began to think a
+Great Magic, while the Camel looked at his own reflection in the pool of
+water.
+
+'You've given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on
+account of your 'scruciating idleness,' said the Djinn; and he went on
+thinking Magics, with his chin in his hand.
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel.
+
+'I shouldn't say that again if I were you,' said the Djinn; 'you might
+say it once too often. Bubbles, I want you to work.'
+
+[Illustration: HERE is the picture of the Djinn in charge of All Deserts
+guiding the Magic with his magic fan. The camel is eating a twig of
+acacia, and he has just finished saying "humph" once too often (the
+Djinn told him he would), and so the Humph is coming. The long
+towelly-thing growing out of the thing like an onion is the Magic, and
+you can see the Humph on its shoulder. The Humph fits on the flat part
+of the Camel's back. The Camel is too busy looking at his own beautiful
+self in the pool of water to know what is going to happen to him.
+
+Underneath the truly picture is a picture of the World-so-new-and-all.
+There are two smoky volcanoes in it, some other mountains and some
+stones and a lake and a black island and a twisty river and a lot of
+other things, as well as a Noah's Ark. I couldn't draw all the deserts
+that the Djinn was in charge of, so I only drew one, but it is a most
+deserty desert.]
+
+And the Camel said 'Humph!' again; but no sooner had he said it than
+he saw his back, that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing up into
+a great big lolloping humph.
+
+'Do you see that?' said the Djinn. 'That's your very own humph that
+you've brought upon your very own self by not working. To-day is
+Thursday, and you've done no work since Monday, when the work began. Now
+you are going to work.'
+
+'How can I,' said the Camel, 'with this humph on my back?'
+
+'That's made a-purpose,' said the Djinn, 'all because you missed those
+three days. You will be able to work now for three days without eating,
+because you can live on your humph; and don't you ever say I never did
+anything for you. Come out of the Desert and go to the Three, and
+behave. Humph yourself!'
+
+And the Camel humphed himself, humph and all, and went away to join
+the Three. And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we
+call it 'hump' now, not to hurt his feelings); but he has never yet
+caught up with the three days that he missed at the beginning of the
+world, and he has never yet learned how to behave.
+
+
+          THE Camel's hump is an ugly lump
+            Which well you may see at the Zoo;
+          But uglier yet is the hump we get
+            From having too little to do.
+
+          Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,
+          If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
+                We get the hump--
+                Cameelious hump--
+          The hump that is black and blue!
+
+          We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
+            And a snarly-yarly voice.
+          We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
+            At our bath and our boots and our toys;
+
+          And there ought to be a corner for me
+          (And I know there is one for you)
+                When we get the hump--
+                Cameelious hump--
+          The hump that is black and blue!
+
+          The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
+            Or frowst with a book by the fire;
+          But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
+            And dig till you gently perspire;
+
+          And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
+          And the Djinn of the Garden too,
+                Have lifted the hump--
+                The horrible hump--
+          The hump that is black and blue!
+
+          I get it as well as you-oo-oo--
+          If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo--
+                We all get hump--
+                Cameelious hump--
+          Kiddies and grown-ups too!
+
+[Illustration: How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN
+
+
+ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red
+Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were
+reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Parsee lived by the
+Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of
+the kind that you must particularly never touch. And one day he took
+flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made
+himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick. It was
+indeed a Superior Comestible (_that's_ magic), and he put it on the
+stove because _he_ was allowed to cook on that stove, and he baked it
+and he baked it till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental.
+But just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the
+Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose,
+two piggy eyes, and few manners. In those days the Rhinoceros's skin
+fitted him quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anywhere. He looked
+exactly like a Noah's Ark Rhinoceros, but of course much bigger. All the
+same, he had no manners then, and he has no manners now, and he never
+will have any manners. He said, 'How!' and the Parsee left that cake and
+climbed to the top of a palm tree with nothing on but his hat, from
+which the rays of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental
+splendour. And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the
+cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his
+nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate
+and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of
+Mazanderan, Socotra, and the Promontories of the Larger Equinox. Then
+the Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put the stove on its legs
+and recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard, I will
+now proceed to relate:--
+
+          Them that takes cakes
+          Which the Parsee-man bakes
+          Makes dreadful mistakes.
+
+And there was a great deal more in that than you would think.
+
+_Because_, five weeks later, there was a heat-wave in the Red Sea, and
+everybody took off all the clothes they had. The Parsee took off his
+hat; but the Rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his
+shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe. In those days it
+buttoned underneath with three buttons and looked like a waterproof. He
+said nothing whatever about the Parsee's cake, because he had eaten it
+all; and he never had any manners, then, since, or henceforward. He
+waddled straight into the water and blew bubbles through his nose,
+leaving his skin on the beach.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Parsee beginning to eat his
+cake on the Uninhabited Island in the Red Sea on a very hot day; and of
+the Rhinoceros coming down from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior,
+which, as you can truthfully see, is all rocky. The Rhinoceros's skin is
+quite smooth, and the three buttons that button it up are underneath, so
+you can't see them. The squiggly things on the Parsee's hat are the rays
+of the sun reflected in more-than-oriental splendour, because if I had
+drawn real rays they would have filled up all the picture. The cake has
+currants in it; and the wheel-thing lying on the sand in front belonged
+to one of Pharaoh's chariots when he tried to cross the Red Sea. The
+Parsee found it, and kept it to play with. The Parsee's name was
+Pestonjee Bomonjee, and the Rhinoceros was called Strorks, because he
+breathed through his mouth instead of his nose. I wouldn't ask anything
+about the cooking-stove if _I_ were you.]
+
+Presently the Parsee came by and found the skin, and he smiled one
+smile that ran all round his face two times. Then he danced three times
+round the skin and rubbed his hands. Then he went to his camp and filled
+his hat with cake-crumbs, for the Parsee never ate anything but cake,
+and never swept out his camp. He took that skin, and he shook that skin,
+and he scrubbed that skin, and he rubbed that skin just as full of old,
+dry, stale, tickly cake-crumbs and some burned currants as ever it could
+_possibly_ hold. Then he climbed to the top of his palm-tree and waited
+for the Rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee sitting in his
+palm-tree and watching the Rhinoceros Strorks bathing near the beach
+of the Altogether Uninhabited Island after Strorks had taken off his
+skin. The Parsee has put the cake-crumbs into the skin, and he is
+smiling to think how they will tickle Strorks when Strorks puts it on
+again. The skin is just under the rocks below the palm-tree in a cool
+place; that is why you can't see it. The Parsee is wearing a new
+more-than-oriental-splendour hat of the sort that Parsees wear; and he
+has a knife in his hand to cut his name on palm-trees. The black things
+on the islands out at sea are bits of ships that got wrecked going down
+the Red Sea; but all the passengers were saved and went home.
+
+The black thing in the water close to the shore is not a wreck at all.
+It is Strorks the Rhinoceros bathing without his skin. He was just as
+black underneath his skin as he was outside. I wouldn't ask anything
+about the cooking-stove if _I_ were you.]
+
+And the Rhinoceros did. He buttoned it up with the three buttons,
+and it tickled like cake-crumbs in bed. Then he wanted to scratch, but
+that made it worse; and then he lay down on the sands and rolled and
+rolled and rolled, and every time he rolled the cake-crumbs tickled him
+worse and worse and worse. Then he ran to the palm-tree and rubbed and
+rubbed and rubbed himself against it. He rubbed so much and so hard that
+he rubbed his skin into a great fold over his shoulders, and another
+fold underneath, where the buttons used to be (but he rubbed the buttons
+off), and he rubbed some more folds over his legs. And it spoiled his
+temper, but it didn't make the least difference to the cake-crumbs. They
+were inside his skin and they tickled. So he went home, very angry
+indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros
+has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the
+cake-crumbs inside.
+
+But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree, wearing his hat, from which
+the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour,
+packed up his cooking-stove, and went away in the direction of Orotavo,
+Amygdala, the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo, and the Marshes of Sonaput.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          THIS Uninhabited Island
+              Is off Cape Gardafui,
+          By the Beaches of Socotra
+              And the Pink Arabian Sea:
+          But it's hot--too hot from Suez
+              For the likes of you and me
+                  Ever to go
+                  In a P. and O.
+              And call on the Cake-Parsee!
+
+[Illustration: How the Leopard Got His Spots]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS
+
+
+IN the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard
+lived in a place called the High Veldt. 'Member it wasn't the Low Veldt,
+or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the 'sclusively bare, hot,
+shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and
+'sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass. The Giraffe and the Zebra
+and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they
+were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over; but the Leopard, he was
+the 'sclusivest sandiest-yellowish-brownest of them all--a
+greyish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast, and he matched the
+'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one
+hair. This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of
+them; for he would lie down by a 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish
+stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland
+or the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would
+surprise them out of their jumpsome lives. He would indeed! And, also,
+there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows (a 'sclusively
+greyish-brownish-yellowish man he was then), who lived on the High Veldt
+with the Leopard; and the two used to hunt together--the Ethiopian with
+his bows and arrows, and the Leopard 'sclusively with his teeth and
+claws--till the Giraffe and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga and
+all the rest of them didn't know which way to jump, Best Beloved. They
+didn't indeed!
+
+After a long time--things lived for ever so long in those days--they
+learned to avoid anything that looked like a Leopard or an Ethiopian;
+and bit by bit--the Giraffe began it, because his legs were the
+longest--they went away from the High Veldt. They scuttled for days and
+days and days till they came to a great forest, 'sclusively full of
+trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows, and there
+they hid: and after another long time, what with standing half in the
+shade and half out of it, and what with the slippery-slidy shadows of
+the trees falling on them, the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew
+stripy, and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker, with little wavy grey
+lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk; and so, though you could
+hear them and smell them, you could very seldom see them, and then only
+when you knew precisely where to look. They had a beautiful time in the
+'sclusively speckly-spickly shadows of the forest, while the Leopard and
+the Ethiopian ran about over the 'sclusively greyish-yellowish-reddish
+High Veldt outside, wondering where all their breakfasts and their
+dinners and their teas had gone. At last they were so hungry that they
+ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits, the Leopard and the Ethiopian,
+and then they had the Big Tummy-ache, both together; and then they met
+Baviaan--the dog-headed, barking Baboon, who is Quite the Wisest Animal
+in All South Africa.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is Wise Baviaan, the dog-headed Baboon, Who is
+Quite the Wisest Animal in All South Africa. I have drawn him from a
+statue that I made up out of my own head, and I have written his name on
+his belt and on his shoulder and on the thing he is sitting on. I have
+written it in what is not called Coptic and Hieroglyphic and Cuneiformic
+and Bengalic and Burmic and Hebric, all because he is so wise. He is not
+beautiful, but he is very wise; and I should like to paint him with
+paint-box colours, but I am not allowed. The umbrella-ish thing about
+his head is his Conventional Mane.]
+
+Said Leopard to Baviaan (and it was a very hot day), 'Where has all the
+game gone?'
+
+And Baviaan winked. _He_ knew.
+
+Said the Ethiopian to Baviaan, 'Can you tell me the present habitat of
+the aboriginal Fauna?' (That meant just the same thing, but the
+Ethiopian always used long words. He was a grown-up.)
+
+And Baviaan winked. _He_ knew.
+
+Then said Baviaan, 'The game has gone into other spots; and my advice to
+you, Leopard, is to go into other spots as soon as you can.'
+
+And the Ethiopian said, 'That is all very fine, but I wish to know
+whither the aboriginal Fauna has migrated.'
+
+Then said Baviaan, 'The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora
+because it was high time for a change; and my advice to you, Ethiopian,
+is to change as soon as you can.'
+
+That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian, but they set off to look
+for the aboriginal Flora, and presently, after ever so many days, they
+saw a great, high, tall forest full of tree trunks all 'sclusively
+speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and
+hatched and cross-hatched with shadows. (Say that quickly aloud, and you
+will see how _very_ shadowy the forest must have been.)
+
+'What is this,' said the Leopard, 'that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet
+so full of little pieces of light?'
+
+'I don't know,' said the Ethiopian, 'but it ought to be the aboriginal
+Flora. I can smell Giraffe, and I can hear Giraffe, but I can't see
+Giraffe.'
+
+'That's curious,' said the Leopard. 'I suppose it is because we have
+just come in out of the sunshine. I can smell Zebra, and I can hear
+Zebra, but I can't see Zebra.'
+
+'Wait a bit,' said the Ethiopian. 'It's a long time since we've hunted
+'em. Perhaps we've forgotten what they were like.'
+
+'Fiddle!' said the Leopard. 'I remember them perfectly on the High
+Veldt, especially their marrow-bones. Giraffe is about seventeen feet
+high, of a 'sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and
+Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a 'sclusively grey-fawn
+colour from head to heel.'
+
+'Umm,' said the Ethiopian, looking into the speckly-spickly shadows of
+the aboriginal Flora-forest. 'Then they ought to show up in this dark
+place like ripe bananas in a smoke-house.'
+
+But they didn't. The Leopard and the Ethiopian hunted all day; and
+though they could smell them and hear them, they never saw one of them.
+
+'For goodness' sake,' said the Leopard at tea-time, 'let us wait till it
+gets dark. This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal.'
+
+So they waited till dark, and then the Leopard heard something breathing
+sniffily in the starlight that fell all stripy through the branches, and
+he jumped at the noise, and it smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra,
+and when he knocked it down it kicked like Zebra, but he couldn't see
+it. So he said, 'Be quiet, O you person without any form. I am going to
+sit on your head till morning, because there is something about you that
+I don't understand.'
+
+Presently he heard a grunt and a crash and a scramble, and the Ethiopian
+called out, 'I've caught a thing that I can't see. It smells like
+Giraffe, and it kicks like Giraffe, but it hasn't any form.'
+
+'Don't you trust it,' said the Leopard. 'Sit on its head till the
+morning--same as me. They haven't any form--any of 'em.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So they sat down on them hard till bright morning-time, and then Leopard
+said, 'What have you at your end of the table, Brother?'
+
+The Ethiopian scratched his head and said, 'It ought to be 'sclusively a
+rich fulvous orange-tawny from head to heel, and it ought to be Giraffe;
+but it is covered all over with chestnut blotches. What have you at
+_your_ end of the table, Brother?'
+
+And the Leopard scratched his head and said, 'It ought to be 'sclusively
+a delicate greyish-fawn, and it ought to be Zebra; but it is covered all
+over with black and purple stripes. What in the world have you been
+doing to yourself, Zebra? Don't you know that if you were on the High
+Veldt I could see you ten miles off? You haven't any form.'
+
+'Yes,' said the Zebra, 'but this isn't the High Veldt. Can't you see?'
+
+'I can now,' said the Leopard. 'But I couldn't all yesterday. How is it
+done?'
+
+'Let us up,' said the Zebra, 'and we will show you.'
+
+They let the Zebra and the Giraffe get up; and Zebra moved away to some
+little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy, and Giraffe
+moved off to some tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy.
+
+'Now watch,' said the Zebra and the Giraffe. 'This is the way it's done.
+One--two--three! And where's your breakfast?'
+
+Leopard stared, and Ethiopian stared, but all they could see were stripy
+shadows and blotched shadows in the forest, but never a sign of Zebra
+and Giraffe. They had just walked off and hidden themselves in the
+shadowy forest.
+
+'Hi! Hi!' said the Ethiopian. 'That's a trick worth learning. Take a
+lesson by it, Leopard. You show up in this dark place like a bar of soap
+in a coal-scuttle.'
+
+'Ho! Ho!' said the Leopard. 'Would it surprise you very much to know
+that you show up in this dark place like a mustard-plaster on a sack of
+coals?'
+
+Well, calling names won't catch dinner, said the Ethiopian. 'The long
+and the little of it is that we don't match our backgrounds. I'm going
+to take Baviaan's advice. He told me I ought to change; and as I've
+nothing to change except my skin I'm going to change that.'
+
+'What to?' said the Leopard, tremendously excited.
+
+'To a nice working blackish-brownish colour, with a little purple in it,
+and touches of slaty-blue. It will be the very thing for hiding in
+hollows and behind trees.'
+
+So he changed his skin then and there, and the Leopard was more excited
+than ever; he had never seen a man change his skin before.
+
+'But what about me?' he said, when the Ethiopian had worked his last
+little finger into his fine new black skin.
+
+'You take Baviaan's advice too. He told you to go into spots.'
+
+'So I did,' said the Leopard. 'I went into other spots as fast as I
+could. I went into this spot with you, and a lot of good it has done
+me.'
+
+'Oh,' said the Ethiopian, 'Baviaan didn't mean spots in South Africa. He
+meant spots on your skin.'
+
+'What's the use of that?' said the Leopard.
+
+'Think of Giraffe,' said the Ethiopian. 'Or if you prefer stripes,
+think of Zebra. They find their spots and stripes give them perfect
+satisfaction.'
+
+'Umm,' said the Leopard. 'I wouldn't look like Zebra--not for ever so.'
+
+'Well, make up your mind,' said the Ethiopian, 'because I'd hate to go
+hunting without you, but I must if you insist on looking like a
+sun-flower against a tarred fence.'
+
+'I'll take spots, then,' said the Leopard; 'but don't make 'em too
+vulgar-big. I wouldn't look like Giraffe--not for ever so.'
+
+'I'll make 'em with the tips of my fingers,' said the Ethiopian.
+'There's plenty of black left on my skin still. Stand over!'
+
+Then the Ethiopian put his five fingers close together (there was plenty
+of black left on his new skin still) and pressed them all over the
+Leopard, and wherever the five fingers touched they left five little
+black marks, all close together. You can see them on any Leopard's skin
+you like, Best Beloved. Sometimes the fingers slipped and the marks got
+a little blurred; but if you look closely at any Leopard now you will
+see that there are always five spots--off five fat black finger-tips.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Leopard and the Ethiopian
+after they had taken Wise Baviaan's advice and the Leopard had gone
+into other spots and the Ethiopian had changed his skin. The Ethiopian
+was really a negro, and so his name was Sambo. The Leopard was
+called Spots, and he has been called Spots ever since. They are out
+hunting in the spickly-speckly forest, and they are looking for Mr.
+One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast. If you look a little you will see
+Mr. One-Two-Three not far away. The Ethiopian has hidden behind a
+splotchy-blotchy tree because it matches his skin, and the Leopard is
+lying beside a spickly-speckly bank of stones because it matches his
+spots. Mr. One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast is standing up eating
+leaves from a tall tree. This is really a puzzle-picture like 'Find the
+Cat.']
+
+'Now you _are_ a beauty!' said the Ethiopian. 'You can lie out on
+the bare ground and look like a heap of pebbles. You can lie out on the
+naked rocks and look like a piece of pudding-stone. You can lie out on a
+leafy branch and look like sunshine sifting through the leaves; and you
+can lie right across the centre of a path and look like nothing in
+particular. Think of that and purr!'
+
+'But if I'm all this,' said the Leopard, 'why didn't you go spotty too?'
+
+'Oh, plain black's best for a nigger,' said the Ethiopian. 'Now come
+along and we'll see if we can't get even with Mr.
+One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast!'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So they went away and lived happily ever afterward, Best Beloved. That
+is all.
+
+Oh, now and then you will hear grown-ups say, 'Can the Ethiopian
+change his skin or the Leopard his spots?' I don't think even grown-ups
+would keep on saying such a silly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopian
+hadn't done it once--do you? But they will never do it again, Best
+Beloved. They are quite contented as they are.
+
+
+      I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones,
+      'Let us melt into the landscape--just us two by our lones.'
+      People have come--in a carriage--calling. But Mummy is there....
+      Yes, I can go if you take me--Nurse says _she_ don't care.
+      Let's go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails!
+      Let's say things to the bunnies, and watch 'em skitter their tails!
+      Let's--oh, _anything_, daddy, so long as it's you and me,
+      And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!
+      Here's your boots (I've brought 'em), and here's your cap and stick,
+      And here's your pipe and tobacco. Oh, come along out of it--quick.
+
+[Illustration: The Elephant's Child]
+
+
+
+
+THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD
+
+
+IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no
+trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he
+could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things
+with it. But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's
+Child--who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked
+ever so many questions. _And_ he lived in Africa, and he filled all
+Africa with his 'satiable curtiosities. He asked his tall aunt, the
+Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the
+Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. He asked his tall uncle,
+the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe,
+spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of 'satiable
+curtiosity! He asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why her eyes were
+red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, spanked him with her broad,
+broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted
+just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy,
+hairy paw. And _still_ he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! He asked
+questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or
+touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. And still he was
+full of 'satiable curtiosity!
+
+One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this
+'satiable Elephant's Child asked a new fine question that he had never
+asked before. He asked, 'What does the Crocodile have for dinner?' Then
+everybody said, 'Hush!' in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him
+immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.
+
+By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting
+in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, 'My father has
+spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have
+spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity; and _still_ I want to know what
+the Crocodile has for dinner!'
+
+Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the
+great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees,
+and find out.'
+
+That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes,
+because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this
+'satiable Elephant's Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little
+short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple
+kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all
+his dear families, 'Good-bye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy
+Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the
+Crocodile has for dinner.' And they all spanked him once more for luck,
+though he asked them most politely to stop.
+
+Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating
+melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up.
+
+He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama's
+Country, and from Khama's Country he went east by north, eating melons
+all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green,
+greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as
+Kolokolo Bird had said.
+
+Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very
+week, and day, and hour, and minute, this 'satiable Elephant's Child had
+never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. It was all
+his 'satiable curtiosity.
+
+The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled
+round a rock.
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but have you seen
+such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'
+
+'_Have_ I seen a Crocodile?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in
+a voice of dretful scorn. 'What will you ask me next?'
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but could you kindly tell me
+what he has for dinner?'
+
+Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly
+from the rock, and spanked the Elephant's Child with his scalesome,
+flailsome tail.
+
+'That is odd,' said the Elephant's Child, 'because my father and my
+mother, and my uncle and my aunt, not to mention my other aunt, the
+Hippopotamus, and my other uncle, the Baboon, have all spanked me for my
+'satiable curtiosity--and I suppose this is the same thing.'
+
+So he said good-bye very politely to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake,
+and helped to coil him up on the rock again, and went on, a little warm,
+but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about,
+because he could not pick it up, till he trod on what he thought was a
+log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo
+River, all set about with fever-trees.
+
+But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile
+winked one eye--like this!
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but do you happen
+to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'
+
+Then the Crocodile winked the other eye, and lifted half his tail out of
+the mud; and the Elephant's Child stepped back most politely, because he
+did not wish to be spanked again.
+
+'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile. 'Why do you ask such
+things?'
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but my father has
+spanked me, my mother has spanked me, not to mention my tall aunt, the
+Ostrich, and my tall uncle, the Giraffe, who can kick ever so hard, as
+well as my broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my hairy uncle, the Baboon,
+_and_ including the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, with the scalesome,
+flailsome tail, just up the bank, who spanks harder than any of them;
+and _so_, if it's quite all the same to you, I don't want to be spanked
+any more.'
+
+'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile, 'for I am the Crocodile,'
+and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true.
+
+Then the Elephant's Child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled
+down on the bank and said, 'You are the very person I have been looking
+for all these long days. Will you please tell me what you have for
+dinner?'
+
+'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile, 'and I'll whisper.'
+
+Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's
+musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose,
+which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger
+than a boot, though much more useful.
+
+'I think,' said the Crocodile--and he said it between his teeth, like
+this--'I think to-day I will begin with Elephant's Child!'
+
+At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant's Child was much annoyed, and he
+said, speaking through his nose, like this, 'Led go! You are hurtig be!'
+
+Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake scuffled down from the bank and
+said, 'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly,
+pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in
+the large-pattern leather ulster' (and by this he meant the Crocodile)
+'will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack
+Robinson.'
+
+This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
+
+Then the Elephant's Child sat back on his little haunches, and pulled,
+and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch. And the Crocodile
+floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his
+tail, and _he_ pulled, and pulled, and pulled.
+
+And the Elephant's Child's nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant's
+Child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and
+pulled, and his nose kept on stretching; and the Crocodile threshed his
+tail like an oar, and _he_ pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and at each
+pull the Elephant's Child's nose grew longer and longer--and it hurt him
+hijjus!
+
+Then the Elephant's Child felt his legs slipping, and he said through
+his nose, which was now nearly five feet long, 'This is too butch for
+be!'
+
+Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake came down from the bank, and
+knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch round the Elephant's Child's
+hind legs, and said, 'Rash and inexperienced traveller, we will now
+seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do
+not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling man-of-war with the
+armour-plated upper deck' (and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the
+Crocodile), 'will permanently vitiate your future career.'
+
+That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
+
+So he pulled, and the Elephant's Child pulled, and the Crocodile
+pulled; but the Elephant's Child and the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+pulled hardest; and at last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant's
+Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the
+Limpopo.
+
+Then the Elephant's Child sat down most hard and sudden; but first he
+was careful to say 'Thank you' to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake; and
+next he was kind to his poor pulled nose, and wrapped it all up in cool
+banana leaves, and hung it in the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo to
+cool.
+
+'What are you doing that for?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but my nose is badly out of
+shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink.'
+
+'Then you will have to wait a long time,' said the
+Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'Some people do not know what is good for
+them.'
+
+The Elephant's Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to
+shrink. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint.
+For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had
+pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have
+to-day.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the Elephant's Child having his nose pulled
+by the Crocodile. He is much surprised and astonished and hurt, and
+he is talking through his nose and saying, 'Led go! You are hurtig
+be!' He is pulling very hard, and so is the Crocodile; but the
+Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake is hurrying through the water to help the
+Elephant's Child. All that black stuff is the banks of the great
+grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (but I am not allowed to paint these
+pictures), and the bottly-tree with the twisty roots and the eight
+leaves is one of the fever-trees that grow there.
+
+Underneath the truly picture are shadows of African animals walking
+into an African ark. There are two lions, two ostriches, two oxen, two
+camels, two sheep, and two other things that look like rats, but I think
+they are rock-rabbits. They don't mean anything. I put them in because I
+thought they looked pretty. They would look very fine if I were allowed
+to paint them.]
+
+At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder,
+and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that
+fly dead with the end of it.
+
+''Vantage number one!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'You
+couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. Try and eat a little
+now.'
+
+Before he thought what he was doing the Elephant's Child put out his
+trunk and plucked a large bundle of grass, dusted it clean against his
+fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth.
+
+''Vantage number two!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'You
+couldn't have done that with a mear-smear nose. Don't you think the sun
+is very hot here?'
+
+'It is,' said the Elephant's Child, and before he thought what he was
+doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great
+grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a
+cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.
+
+''Vantage number three!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'You
+couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. Now how do you feel
+about being spanked again?'
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but I should not like it at
+all.'
+
+'How would you like to spank somebody?' said the
+Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+
+'I should like it very much indeed,' said the Elephant's Child.
+
+'Well,' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, 'you will find that new
+nose of yours very useful to spank people with.'
+
+'Thank you,' said the Elephant's Child, 'I'll remember that; and now I
+think I'll go home to all my dear families and try.'
+
+So the Elephant's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking
+his trunk. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree,
+instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do. When he wanted grass
+he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he
+used to do. When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and
+used it as a fly-whisk; and he made himself a new, cool, slushy-squshy
+mud-cap whenever the sun was hot. When he felt lonely walking through
+Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than
+several brass bands. He went especially out of his way to find a broad
+Hippopotamus (she was no relation of his), and he spanked her very hard,
+to make sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake had spoken the truth
+about his new trunk. The rest of the time he picked up the melon rinds
+that he had dropped on his way to the Limpopo--for he was a Tidy
+Pachyderm.
+
+One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up
+his trunk and said, 'How do you do?' They were very glad to see him, and
+immediately said, 'Come here and be spanked for your 'satiable
+curtiosity.'
+
+'Pooh,' said the Elephant's Child. 'I don't think you peoples know
+anything about spanking; but _I_ do, and I'll show you.'
+
+Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head
+over heels.
+
+'O Bananas!' said they, 'where did you learn that trick, and what have
+you done to your nose?'
+
+'I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great
+grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,' said the Elephant's Child. 'I asked
+him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is just a picture of the Elephant's Child going
+to pull bananas off a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long
+trunk. I don't think it is a very nice picture; but I couldn't make it
+any better, because elephants and bananas are hard to draw. The streaky
+things behind the Elephant's Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere
+in Africa. The Elephant's Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the
+mud that he found there. I think it would look better if you painted the
+banana-tree green and the Elephant's Child red.]
+
+'It looks very ugly,' said his hairy uncle, the Baboon.
+
+'It does,' said the Elephant's Child. 'But it's very useful,' and he
+picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him
+into a hornet's nest.
+
+Then that bad Elephant's Child spanked all his dear families for a long
+time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. He pulled out his
+tall Ostrich aunt's tail-feathers; and he caught his tall uncle, the
+Giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush; and he
+shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and blew bubbles into her
+ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals; but he never let any
+one touch Kolokolo Bird.
+
+At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by
+one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo
+River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the
+Crocodile. When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever
+since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see,
+besides all those that you won't, have trunks precisely like the trunk
+of the 'satiable Elephant's Child.
+
+
+          I KEEP six honest serving-men;
+            (They taught me all I knew)
+          Their names are What and Where and When
+            And How and Where and Who.
+          I send them over land and sea,
+            I send them east and west;
+          But after they have worked for me,
+            _I_ give them all a rest.
+
+            _I_ let them rest from nine till five.
+          For I am busy then,
+            As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
+          For they are hungry men:
+            But different folk have different views;
+          I know a person small--
+            She keeps ten million serving-men,
+          Who get no rest at all!
+            She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs,
+          From the second she opens her eyes--
+            One million Hows, two million Wheres,
+          And seven million Whys!
+
+[Illustration: The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo]
+
+
+
+
+THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO
+
+
+NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different
+Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his
+pride was inordinate: he danced on an outcrop in the middle of
+Australia, and he went to the Little God Nqa.
+
+He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, 'Make me different from
+all other animals by five this afternoon.'
+
+Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sand-flat and shouted, 'Go away!'
+
+He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced
+on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Middle
+God Nquing.
+
+He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast, saying, 'Make me different
+from all other animals; make me, also, wonderfully popular by five this
+afternoon.'
+
+Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted, 'Go away!'
+
+He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced
+on a sandbank in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Big God
+Nqong.
+
+He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, 'Make me different
+from all other animals; make me popular and wonderfully run after by
+five this afternoon.'
+
+Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan and shouted, 'Yes, I
+will!'
+
+Nqong called Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusty in the
+sunshine, and showed him Kangaroo. Nqong said, 'Dingo! Wake up, Dingo!
+Do you see that gentleman dancing on an ashpit? He wants to be popular
+and very truly run after. Dingo, make him so!'
+
+Up jumped Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--and said, 'What, _that_ cat-rabbit?'
+
+Off ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a
+coal-scuttle,--ran after Kangaroo.
+
+Off went the proud Kangaroo on his four little legs like a bunny.
+
+This, O Beloved of mine, ends the first part of the tale!
+
+He ran through the desert; he ran through the mountains; he ran through
+the salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds; he ran through the blue
+gums; he ran through the spinifex; he ran till his front legs ached.
+
+He had to!
+
+Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a
+rat-trap, never getting nearer, never getting farther,--ran after
+Kangaroo.
+
+He had to!
+
+Still ran Kangaroo--Old Man Kangaroo. He ran through the ti-trees; he
+ran through the mulga; he ran through the long grass; he ran through the
+short grass; he ran through the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; he ran
+till his hind legs ached.
+
+He had to!
+
+[Illustration: THIS is a picture of Old Man Kangaroo when he was the
+Different Animal with four short legs. I have drawn him grey and woolly,
+and you can see that he is very proud because he has a wreath of flowers
+in his hair. He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in
+the middle of Australia at six o'clock before breakfast. You can see
+that it is six o'clock, because the sun is just getting up. The thing
+with the ears and the open mouth is Little God Nqa. Nqa is very much
+surprised, because he has never seen a Kangaroo dance like that before.
+Little God Nqa is just saying, 'Go away,' but the Kangaroo is so busy
+dancing that he has not heard him yet.
+
+The Kangaroo hasn't any real name except Boomer. He lost it because
+he was so proud.]
+
+Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, grinning like
+a horse-collar, never getting nearer, never getting farther; and they
+came to the Wollgong River.
+
+Now, there wasn't any bridge, and there wasn't any ferry-boat, and
+Kangaroo didn't know how to get over; so he stood on his legs and
+hopped.
+
+He had to!
+
+He hopped through the Flinders; he hopped through the Cinders; he hopped
+through the deserts in the middle of Australia. He hopped like a
+Kangaroo.
+
+First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped
+five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer. He
+hadn't any time for rest or refreshment, and he wanted them very much.
+
+Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--very much bewildered, very much
+hungry, and wondering what in the world or out of it made Old Man
+Kangaroo hop.
+
+For he hopped like a cricket; like a pea in a saucepan; or a new rubber
+ball on a nursery floor.
+
+He had to!
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at five in the
+afternoon, when he had got his beautiful hind legs just as Big God Nqong
+had promised. You can see that it is five o'clock, because Big God
+Nqong's pet tame clock says so. That is Nqong, in his bath, sticking his
+feet out. Old Man Kangaroo is being rude to Yellow-Dog Dingo. Yellow-Dog
+Dingo has been trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia. You can
+see the marks of Kangaroo's big new feet running ever so far back over
+the bare hills. Yellow-Dog Dingo is drawn black, because I am not
+allowed to paint these pictures with real colours out of the paint-box;
+and besides, Yellow-Dog Dingo got dreadfully black and dusty after
+running through the Flinders and the Cinders.
+
+I don't know the names of the flowers growing round Nqong's bath. The
+two little squatty things out in the desert are the other two gods that
+Old Man Kangaroo spoke to early in the morning. That thing with the
+letters on it is Old Man Kangaroo's pouch. He had to have a pouch just
+as he had to have legs.]
+
+He tucked up his front legs; he hopped on his hind legs; he stuck out
+his tail for a balance-weight behind him; and he hopped through the
+Darling Downs.
+
+He had to!
+
+Still ran Dingo--Tired-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, very much
+bewildered, and wondering when in the world or out of it would Old Man
+Kangaroo stop.
+
+Then came Nqong from his bath in the salt-pans, and said, 'It's five
+o'clock.'
+
+Down sat Dingo--Poor Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusky in the sunshine;
+hung out his tongue and howled.
+
+Down sat Kangaroo--Old Man Kangaroo--stuck out his tail like a
+milking-stool behind him, and said, 'Thank goodness _that's_ finished!'
+
+Then said Nqong, who is always a gentleman, 'Why aren't you grateful to
+Yellow-Dog Dingo? Why don't you thank him for all he has done for you?'
+
+Then said Kangaroo--Tired Old Kangaroo--'He's chased me out of the
+homes of my childhood; he's chased me out of my regular meal-times; he's
+altered my shape so I'll never get it back; and he's played Old Scratch
+with my legs.'
+
+Then said Nqong, 'Perhaps I'm mistaken, but didn't you ask me to make
+you different from all other animals, as well as to make you very truly
+sought after? And now it is five o'clock.'
+
+'Yes,' said Kangaroo. 'I wish that I hadn't. I thought you would do it
+by charms and incantations, but this is a practical joke.'
+
+'Joke!' said Nqong from his bath in the blue gums. 'Say that again and
+I'll whistle up Dingo and run your hind legs off.'
+
+'No,' said the Kangaroo. 'I must apologise. Legs are legs, and you
+needn't alter 'em so far as I am concerned. I only meant to explain to
+Your Lordliness that I've had nothing to eat since morning, and I'm very
+empty indeed.'
+
+'Yes,' said Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo,--'I am just in the same situation.
+I've made him different from all other animals; but what may I have for
+my tea?'
+
+Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan, 'Come and ask me about
+it to-morrow, because I'm going to wash.'
+
+So they were left in the middle of Australia, Old Man Kangaroo and
+Yellow-Dog Dingo, and each said, 'That's _your_ fault.'
+
+      THIS is the mouth-filling song
+      Of the race that was run by a Boomer,
+      Run in a single burst--only event of its kind--
+      Started by big God Nqong from Warrigaborrigarooma,
+      Old Man Kangaroo first: Yellow-Dog Dingo behind.
+
+      Kangaroo bounded away,
+      His back-legs working like pistons--
+      Bounded from morning till dark,
+      Twenty-five feet to a bound.
+      Yellow-Dog Dingo lay
+      Like a yellow cloud in the distance--
+      Much too busy to bark.
+      My! but they covered the ground!
+
+      Nobody knows where they went,
+      Or followed the track that they flew in,
+      For that Continent
+      Hadn't been given a name.
+      They ran thirty degrees,
+      From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin
+      (Look at the Atlas, please),
+      And they ran back as they came.
+
+      S'posing you could trot
+      From Adelaide to the Pacific,
+      For an afternoon's run--
+      Half what these gentlemen did--
+      You would feel rather hot,
+      But your legs would develop terrific--
+      Yes, my importunate son,
+      You'd be a Marvellous Kid!
+
+[Illustration: The Beginning of the Armadillos]
+
+
+
+
+THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS
+
+
+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
+_that_ was all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?
+
+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.
+
+One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar
+found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the
+trunk of a fallen tree. They could not run away, and so Stickly-Prickly
+curled himself up into a ball, because he was a Hedgehog, and Slow-Solid
+Tortoise drew in his head and feet into his shell as far as they would
+go, because he was a Tortoise; and so _that_ was all right, Best
+Beloved. Do you see?
+
+'Now attend to me,' said Painted Jaguar, 'because this is very
+important. My mother said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop him
+into the water and then he will uncoil, and when I meet a Tortoise I am
+to scoop him out of his shell with my paw. Now which of you is Hedgehog
+and which is Tortoise? because to save my spots, I can't tell.'
+
+'Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?' said Stickly-Prickly
+Hedgehog. 'Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you uncoil a
+Tortoise you must shell him out of the water with a scoop, and when you
+paw a Hedgehog you must drop him on the shell.'
+
+'Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?' said Slow-and-Solid
+Tortoise. 'Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you water a
+Hedgehog you must drop him into your paw, and when you meet a Tortoise
+you must shell him till he uncoils.'
+
+'I don't think it was at all like that,' said Painted Jaguar, but he
+felt a little puzzled; 'but, please, say it again more distinctly.'
+
+'When you scoop water with your paw you uncoil it with a Hedgehog,' said
+Stickly-Prickly. 'Remember that, because it's important.'
+
+'_But_,' said the Tortoise, 'when you paw your meat you drop it into a
+Tortoise with a scoop. Why can't you understand?'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in
+Red and Black. It hasn't anything to do with the story except that there
+are two Armadillos in it--up by the top. The inciting part are the
+adventures that happened to the men who went along the road marked in
+red. I meant to draw Armadillos when I began the map, and I meant to
+draw manatees and spider-tailed monkeys and big snakes and lots of
+Jaguars, but it was more inciting to do the map and the venturesome
+adventures in red. You begin at the bottom left-hand corner and follow
+the little arrows all about, and then you come quite round again to
+where the adventuresome people went home in a ship called the _Royal
+Tiger_. This is a most adventuresome 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 or a boat.]
+
+'You are making my spots ache,' said Painted Jaguar; 'and besides, I
+didn't want your advice at all. I only wanted to know which of you is
+Hedgehog and which is Tortoise.'
+
+'I shan't tell you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'but you can scoop me out of
+my shell if you like.'
+
+'Aha!' said Painted Jaguar. 'Now I know you're Tortoise. You thought I
+wouldn't! Now I will.' Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as
+Stickly-Prickly curled himself up, and of course Jaguar's paddy-paw was
+just filled with prickles. Worse than that, he knocked Stickly-Prickly
+away and away into the woods and the bushes, where it was too dark to
+find him. Then he put his paddy-paw into his mouth, and of course the
+prickles hurt him worse than ever. As soon as he could speak he said,
+'Now I know he isn't Tortoise at all. But'--and then he scratched his
+head with his un-prickly paw--'how do I know that this other is
+Tortoise?'
+
+'But I _am_ Tortoise,' said Slow-and-Solid. 'Your mother was quite
+right. She said that you were to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.
+Begin.'
+
+'You didn't say she said that a minute ago,' said Painted Jaguar,
+sucking the prickles out of his paddy-paw. 'You said she said something
+quite different.'
+
+'Well, suppose you say that I said that she said something quite
+different, I don't see that it makes any difference; because if she said
+what you said I said she said, it's just the same as if I said what she
+said she said. On the other hand, if you think she said that you were to
+uncoil me with a scoop, instead of pawing me into drops with a shell, I
+can't help that, can I?'
+
+'But you said you wanted to be scooped out of your shell with my paw,'
+said Painted Jaguar.
+
+'If you'll think again you'll find that I didn't say anything of the
+kind. I said that your mother said that you were to scoop me out of my
+shell,' said Slow-and-Solid.
+
+'What will happen if I do?' said the Jaguar most sniffily and most
+cautious.
+
+'I don't know, because I've never been scooped out of my shell before;
+but I tell you truly, if you want to see me swim away you've only got to
+drop me into the water.'
+
+'I don't believe it,' said Painted Jaguar. 'You've mixed up all the
+things my mother told me to do with the things that you asked me whether
+I was sure that she didn't say, till I don't know whether I'm on my head
+or my painted tail; and now you come and tell me something I _can_
+understand, and it makes me more mixy than before. My mother told me
+that I was to drop one of you two into the water, and as you seem so
+anxious to be dropped I think you don't want to be dropped. So jump into
+the turbid Amazon and be quick about it.'
+
+'I warn you that your Mummy won't be pleased. Don't tell her I didn't
+tell you,' said Slow-Solid.
+
+'If you say another word about what my mother said--' the Jaguar
+answered, but he had not finished the sentence before Slow-and-Solid
+quietly dived into the turbid Amazon, swam under water for a long way,
+and came out on the bank where Stickly-Prickly was waiting for him.
+
+'That was a very narrow escape,' said Stickly-Prickly. 'I don't like
+Painted Jaguar. What did you tell him that you were?'
+
+'I told him truthfully that I was a truthful Tortoise, but he wouldn't
+believe it, and he made me jump into the river to see if I was, and I
+was, and he is surprised. Now he's gone to tell his Mummy. Listen to
+him!'
+
+They could hear Painted Jaguar roaring up and down among the trees and
+the bushes by the side of the turbid Amazon, till his Mummy came.
+
+'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'what have you been doing that you shouldn't have done?'
+
+'I tried to scoop something that said it wanted to be scooped out of its
+shell with my paw, and my paw is full of per-ickles,' said Painted
+Jaguar.
+
+'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'by the prickles in your paddy-paw I see that that must have been
+a Hedgehog. You should have dropped him into the water.'
+
+'I did that to the other thing; and he said he was a Tortoise, and I
+didn't believe him, and it was quite true, and he has dived under the
+turbid Amazon, and he won't come up again, and I haven't anything at all
+to eat, and I think we had better find lodgings somewhere else. They are
+too clever on the turbid Amazon for poor me!'
+
+'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'now attend to me and remember what I say. A Hedgehog curls
+himself up into a ball and his prickles stick out every which way at
+once. By this you may know the Hedgehog.'
+
+'I don't like this old lady one little bit,' said Stickly-Prickly, under
+the shadow of a large leaf. 'I wonder what else she knows?'
+
+'A Tortoise can't curl himself up,' Mother Jaguar went on, ever so many
+times, graciously waving her tail. 'He only draws his head and legs into
+his shell. By this you may know the Tortoise.'
+
+'I don't like this old lady at all--at all,' said Slow-and-Solid
+Tortoise. 'Even Painted Jaguar can't forget those directions. It's a
+great pity that you can't swim, Stickly-Prickly.'
+
+'Don't talk to me,' said Stickly-Prickly. 'Just think how much better it
+would be if you could curl up. This _is_ a mess! Listen to Painted
+Jaguar.'
+
+Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of the turbid Amazon sucking
+prickles out of his paws and saying to himself--
+
+          'Can't curl, but can swim--
+          Slow-Solid, that's him!
+          Curls up, but can't swim--
+          Stickly-Prickly, that's him!'
+
+'He'll never forget that this month of Sundays,' said Stickly-Prickly.
+'Hold up my chin, Slow-and-Solid. I'm going to try to learn to swim. It
+may be useful.'
+
+'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid; and he held up Stickly-Prickly's chin,
+while Stickly-Prickly kicked in the waters of the turbid Amazon.
+
+'You'll make a fine swimmer yet,' said Slow-and-Solid. 'Now, if you can
+unlace my back-plates a little, I'll see what I can do towards curling
+up. It may be useful.'
+
+Stickly-Prickly helped to unlace Tortoise's back-plates, so that by
+twisting and straining Slow-and-Solid actually managed to curl up a
+tiddy wee bit.
+
+'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly; 'but I shouldn't do any more just
+now. It's making you black in the face. Kindly lead me into the water
+once again and I'll practise that side-stroke which you say is so easy.'
+And so Stickly-Prickly practised, and Slow-Solid swam alongside.
+
+'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid. 'A little more practice will make you
+a regular whale. Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front
+plates two holes more, I'll try that fascinating bend that you say is so
+easy. Won't Painted Jaguar be surprised!'
+
+'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly, all wet from the turbid Amazon. 'I
+declare, I shouldn't know you from one of my own family. Two holes, I
+think, you said? A little more expression, please, and don't grunt quite
+so much, or Painted Jaguar may hear us. When you've finished, I want to
+try that long dive which you say is so easy. Won't Painted Jaguar be
+surprised!'
+
+And so Stickly-Prickly dived, and Slow-and-Solid dived alongside.
+
+'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid. 'A leetle more attention to holding
+your breath and you will be able to keep house at the bottom of the
+turbid Amazon. Now I'll try that exercise of wrapping my hind legs round
+my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable. Won't Painted Jaguar
+be surprised!'
+
+'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly. 'But it's straining your back-plates
+a little. They are all overlapping now, instead of lying side by side.'
+
+'Oh, that's the result of exercise,' said Slow-and-Solid. 'I've noticed
+that your prickles seem to be melting into one another, and that you're
+growing to look rather more like a pine-cone, and less like a
+chestnut-burr, than you used to.'
+
+'Am I?' said Stickly-Prickly. 'That comes from my soaking in the water.
+Oh, won't Painted Jaguar be surprised!'
+
+They went on with their exercises, each helping the other, till morning
+came; and when the sun was high they rested and dried themselves. Then
+they saw that they were both of them quite different from what they had
+been.
+
+'Stickly-Prickly,' said Tortoise after breakfast, 'I am not what I was
+yesterday; but I think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar.'
+
+'That was the very thing I was thinking just now,' said Stickly-Prickly.
+'I think scales are a tremendous improvement on prickles--to say nothing
+of being able to swim. Oh, _won't_ Painted Jaguar be surprised! Let's go
+and find him.'
+
+By and by they found Painted Jaguar, still nursing his paddy-paw that
+had been hurt the night before. He was so astonished that he fell three
+times backward over his own painted tail without stopping.
+
+'Good morning!' said Stickly-Prickly. 'And how is your dear gracious
+Mummy this morning?'
+
+'She is quite well, thank you,' said Painted Jaguar; 'but you must
+forgive me if I do not at this precise moment recall your name.'
+
+'That's unkind of you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'seeing that this time
+yesterday you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.'
+
+'But you hadn't any shell. It was all prickles,' said Painted Jaguar. 'I
+know it was. Just look at my paw!'
+
+'You told me to drop into the turbid Amazon and be drowned,' said
+Slow-Solid. 'Why are you so rude and forgetful to-day?'
+
+'Don't you remember what your mother told you?' said Stickly-Prickly,--
+
+          'Can't curl, but can swim--
+          Stickly-Prickly, that's him!
+          Curls up, but can't swim--
+          Slow-Solid, that's him!'
+
+Then they both curled themselves up and rolled round and round Painted
+Jaguar till his eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head.
+
+Then he went to fetch his mother.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is a picture of the whole story of the Jaguar and
+the Hedgehog and the Tortoise _and_ the Armadillo all in a heap. It
+looks rather the same any way you turn it. The Tortoise is in the
+middle, learning how to bend, and that is why the shelly plates on his
+back are so spread apart. He is standing on the Hedgehog, who is waiting
+to learn how to swim. The Hedgehog is a Japanesy Hedgehog, because I
+couldn't find our own Hedgehogs in the garden when I wanted to draw
+them. (It was daytime, and they had gone to bed under the dahlias.)
+Speckly Jaguar is looking over the edge, with his paddy-paw carefully
+tied up by his mother, because he pricked himself scooping the Hedgehog.
+He is much surprised to see what the Tortoise is doing, and his paw is
+hurting him. The snouty thing with the little eye that Speckly Jaguar is
+trying to climb over is the Armadillo that the Tortoise and the Hedgehog
+are going to turn into when they have finished bending and swimming. It
+is all a magic picture, and that is one of the reasons why I haven't
+drawn the Jaguar's whiskers. The other reason was that he was so young
+that his whiskers had not grown. The Jaguar's pet name with his Mummy
+was Doffles.]
+
+'Mother,' he said, 'there are two new animals in the woods to-day,
+and the one that you said couldn't swim, swims, and the one that you
+said couldn't curl up, curls; and they've gone shares in their prickles,
+I think, because both of them are scaly all over, instead of one being
+smooth and the other very prickly; and, besides that, they are rolling
+round and round in circles, and I don't feel comfy.'
+
+'Son, son!' said Mother Jaguar ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog, and can't be anything but a Hedgehog;
+and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, and can never be anything else.'
+
+'But it isn't a Hedgehog, and it isn't a Tortoise. It's a little bit of
+both, and I don't know its proper name.'
+
+'Nonsense!' said Mother Jaguar. 'Everything has its proper name. I
+should call it "Armadillo" till I found out the real one. And I should
+leave it alone.'
+
+So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving them
+alone; but the curious thing is that from that day to this, O Best
+Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called
+Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo. There are
+Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my
+garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales lying
+lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales, that lived on
+the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days, are always
+called Armadillos, because they were so clever.
+
+So _that's_ all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          I'VE never sailed the Amazon,
+            I've never reached Brazil;
+          But the _Don_ and _Magdalena_,
+            They can go there when they will!
+
+                        Yes, weekly from Southampton,
+                        Great steamers, white and gold,
+                        Go rolling down to Rio
+                        (Roll down--roll down to Rio!)
+                        And I'd like to roll to Rio
+                        Some day before I'm old!
+
+          I've never seen a Jaguar,
+            Nor yet an Armadill--
+          O dilloing in his armour,
+            And I s'pose I never will,
+
+                        Unless I go to Rio
+                        These wonders to behold--
+                        Roll down--roll down to Rio--
+                        Roll really down to Rio!
+                        Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio
+                        Some day before I'm old!
+
+[Illustration: How the First Letter Was Written]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN
+
+
+ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jute or
+an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best
+Beloved, but never mind why. He was a Primitive, and he lived cavily in
+a Cave, and he wore very few clothes, and he couldn't read and he
+couldn't write and he didn't want to, and except when he was hungry he
+was quite happy. His name was Tegumai Bopsulai, and that means,
+'Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry'; but we, O Best
+Beloved, will call him Tegumai, for short. And his wife's name was
+Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, 'Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions';
+but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short. And his little
+girl-daughter's name was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means,
+'Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked'; but I'm
+going to call her Taffy. And she was Tegumai Bopsulai's Best Beloved and
+her own Mummy's Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as
+was good for her; and they were all three very happy. As soon as Taffy
+could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and
+sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry,
+and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, 'Where in the world have you two
+been to, to get so shocking dirty? Really, my Tegumai, you're no better
+than my Taffy.'
+
+Now attend and listen!
+
+One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down through the beaver-swamp to the
+Wagai river to spear carp-fish for dinner, and Taffy went too. Tegumai's
+spear was made of wood with shark's teeth at the end, and before he had
+caught any fish at all he accidentally broke it clean across by jabbing
+it down too hard on the bottom of the river. They were miles and miles
+from home (of course they had their lunch with them in a little bag),
+and Tegumai had forgotten to bring any extra spears.
+
+'Here's a pretty kettle of fish!' said Tegumai. 'It will take me half
+the day to mend this.'
+
+'There's your big black spear at home,' said Taffy. 'Let me run back to
+the Cave and ask Mummy to give it me.'
+
+'It's too far for your little fat legs,' said Tegumai. 'Besides, you
+might fall into the beaver-swamp and be drowned. We must make the best
+of a bad job.' He sat down and took out a little leather mendy-bag, full
+of reindeer-sinews and strips of leather, and lumps of bee's-wax and
+resin, and began to mend the spear. Taffy sat down too, with her toes in
+the water and her chin in her hand, and thought very hard. Then she
+said--
+
+'I say, Daddy, it's an awful nuisance that you and I don't know how to
+write, isn't it? If we did we could send a message for the new spear.'
+
+'Taffy,' said Tegumai, 'how often have I told you not to use slang?
+"Awful" isn't a pretty word,--but it _would_ be a convenience, now you
+mention it, if we could write home.'
+
+Just then a Stranger-man came along the river, but he belonged to a far
+tribe, the Tewaras, and he did not understand one word of Tegumai's
+language. He stood on the bank and smiled at Taffy, because he had a
+little girl-daughter of his own at home. Tegumai drew a hank of
+deer-sinews from his mendy-bag and began to mend his spear.
+
+'Come here,' said Taffy. 'Do you know where my Mummy lives?' And the
+Stranger-man said 'Um!'--being, as you know, a Tewara.
+
+'Silly!' said Taffy, and she stamped her foot, because she saw a shoal
+of very big carp going up the river just when her Daddy couldn't use his
+spear.
+
+'Don't bother grown-ups,' said Tegumai, so busy with his spear-mending
+that he did not turn round.
+
+'I aren't,' said Taffy. 'I only want him to do what I want him to do,
+and he won't understand.'
+
+'Then don't bother me,' said Tegumai, and he went on pulling and
+straining at the deer-sinews with his mouth full of loose ends. The
+Stranger-man--a genuine Tewara he was--sat down on the grass, and Taffy
+showed him what her Daddy was doing. The Stranger-man thought, 'This is
+a very wonderful child. She stamps her foot at me and she makes faces.
+She must be the daughter of that noble Chief who is so great that he
+won't take any notice of me.' So he smiled more politely than ever.
+
+'Now,' said Taffy, 'I want you to go to my Mummy, because your legs are
+longer than mine, and you won't fall into the beaver-swamp, and ask for
+Daddy's other spear--the one with the black handle that hangs over our
+fireplace.'
+
+The Stranger-man (_and_ he was a Tewara) thought, 'This is a very, very
+wonderful child. She waves her arms and she shouts at me, but I don't
+understand a word of what she says. But if I don't do what she wants, I
+greatly fear that that haughty Chief, Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers,
+will be angry.' He got up and twisted a big flat piece of bark off a
+birch-tree and gave it to Taffy. He did this, Best Beloved, to show that
+his heart was as white as the birch-bark and that he meant no harm; but
+Taffy didn't quite understand.
+
+'Oh!' said she. 'Now I see! You want my Mummy's living address? Of
+course I can't write, but I can draw pictures if I've anything sharp to
+scratch with. Please lend me the shark's tooth off your necklace.'
+
+The Stranger-man (and _he_ was a Tewara) didn't say anything, so Taffy
+put up her little hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed and
+shark-tooth necklace round his neck.
+
+The Stranger-man (and he _was_ a Tewara) thought, 'This is a very,
+very, very wonderful child. The shark's tooth on my necklace is a
+magic shark's tooth, and I was always told that if anybody touched
+it without my leave they would immediately swell up or burst, but
+this child doesn't swell up or burst, and that important Chief,
+Man-who-attends-strictly-to-his-business, who has not yet taken any
+notice of me at all, doesn't seem to be afraid that she will swell up or
+burst. I had better be more polite.'
+
+So he gave Taffy the shark's tooth, and she lay down flat on her tummy
+with her legs in the air, like some people on the drawing-room floor
+when they want to draw pictures, and she said, 'Now I'll draw you some
+beautiful pictures! You can look over my shoulder, but you mustn't
+joggle. First I'll draw Daddy fishing. It isn't very like him; but Mummy
+will know, because I've drawn his spear all broken. Well, now I'll draw
+the other spear that he wants, the black-handled spear. It looks as if
+it was sticking in Daddy's back, but that's because the shark's tooth
+slipped and this piece of bark isn't big enough. That's the spear I want
+you to fetch; so I'll draw a picture of me myself 'splaining to you. My
+hair doesn't stand up like I've drawn, but it's easier to draw that way.
+Now I'll draw you. _I_ think you're very nice really, but I can't make
+you pretty in the picture, so you mustn't be 'fended. Are you 'fended?'
+
+The Stranger-man (and he was _a_ Tewara) smiled. He thought, 'There must
+be a big battle going to be fought somewhere, and this extraordinary
+child, who takes my magic shark's tooth but who does not swell up or
+burst, is telling me to call all the great Chief's tribe to help him. He
+_is_ a great Chief, or he would have noticed me.'
+
+'Look,' said Taffy, drawing very hard and rather scratchily, 'now I've
+drawn you, and I've put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand, just
+to remind you that you're to bring it. Now I'll show you how to find my
+Mummy's living-address. You go along till you come to two trees (those
+are trees), and then you go over a hill (that's a hill), and then you
+come into a beaver-swamp all full of beavers. I haven't put in all the
+beavers, because I can't draw beavers, but I've drawn their heads, and
+that's all you'll see of them when you cross the swamp. Mind you don't
+fall in! Then our Cave is just beyond the beaver-swamp. It isn't as high
+as the hills really, but I can't draw things very small. That's my Mummy
+outside. She is beautiful. She is the most beautifullest Mummy there
+ever was, but she won't be 'fended when she sees I've drawn her so
+plain. She'll be pleased of me because I can draw. Now, in case you
+forget, I've drawn the spear that Daddy wants _outside_ our Cave. It's
+_inside_ really, but you show the picture to my Mummy and she'll give it
+you. I've made her holding up her hands, because I know she'll be so
+pleased to see you. Isn't it a beautiful picture? And do you quite
+understand, or shall I 'splain again?'
+
+The Stranger-man (and he was a _Tewara_) looked at the picture and
+nodded very hard. He said to himself, 'If I do not fetch this great
+Chief's tribe to help him, he will be slain by his enemies who are
+coming up on all sides with spears. Now I see why the great Chief
+pretended not to notice me! He feared that his enemies were hiding in
+the bushes and would see him deliver a message to me. Therefore he
+turned his back, and let the wise and wonderful child draw the terrible
+picture showing me his difficulties. I will away and get help for him
+from his tribe.' He did not even ask Taffy the road, but raced off into
+the bushes like the wind, with the birch-bark in his hand, and Taffy sat
+down most pleased.
+
+Now this is the picture that Taffy had drawn for him!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'What have you been doing, Taffy?' said Tegumai. He had mended his spear
+and was carefully waving it to and fro.
+
+'It's a little berangement of my own, Daddy dear,' said Taffy. 'If you
+won't ask me questions, you'll know all about it in a little time, and
+you'll be surprised. You don't know how surprised you'll be, Daddy!
+Promise you'll be surprised.'
+
+'Very well,' said Tegumai, and went on fishing.
+
+The Stranger-man--did you know he was a Tewara?--hurried away with the
+picture and ran for some miles, till quite by accident he found Teshumai
+Tewindrow at the door of her Cave, talking to some other Neolithic
+ladies who had come in to a Primitive lunch. Taffy was very like
+Teshumai, especially about the upper part of the face and the eyes, so
+the Stranger-man--always a pure Tewara--smiled politely and handed
+Teshumai the birch-bark. He had run hard, so that he panted, and his
+legs were scratched with brambles, but he still tried to be polite.
+
+As soon as Teshumai saw the picture she screamed like anything and flew
+at the Stranger-man. The other Neolithic ladies at once knocked him down
+and sat on him in a long line of six, while Teshumai pulled his hair.
+'It's as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man's face,' she said. 'He
+has stuck my Tegumai all full of spears, and frightened poor Taffy so
+that her hair stands all on end; and not content with that, he brings me
+a horrid picture of how it was done. Look!' She showed the picture to
+all the Neolithic ladies sitting patiently on the Stranger-man. 'Here is
+my Tegumai with his arm broken; here is a spear sticking into his back;
+here is a man with a spear ready to throw; here is another man throwing
+a spear from a Cave, and here are a whole pack of people' (they were
+Taffy's beavers really, but they did look rather like people) 'coming up
+behind Tegumai. Isn't it shocking!'
+
+'Most shocking!' said the Neolithic ladies, and they filled the
+Stranger-man's hair with mud (at which he was surprised), and they beat
+upon the Reverberating Tribal Drums, and called together all the chiefs
+of the Tribe of Tegumai, with their Hetmans and Dolmans, all Neguses,
+Woons, and Akhoonds of the organisation, in addition to the Warlocks,
+Angekoks, Juju-men, Bonzes, and the rest, who decided that before they
+chopped the Stranger-man's head off he should instantly lead them down
+to the river and show them where he had hidden poor Taffy.
+
+By this time the Stranger-man (in spite of being a Tewara) was really
+annoyed. They had filled his hair quite solid with mud; they had rolled
+him up and down on knobby pebbles; they had sat upon him in a long line
+of six; they had thumped him and bumped him till he could hardly
+breathe; and though he did not understand their language, he was almost
+sure that the names the Neolithic ladies called him were not ladylike.
+However, he said nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were assembled,
+and then he led them back to the bank of the Wagai river, and there they
+found Taffy making daisy-chains, and Tegumai carefully spearing small
+carp with his mended spear.
+
+'Well, you _have_ been quick!' said Taffy. 'But why did you bring so
+many people? Daddy dear, this is my surprise. _Are_ you surprised,
+Daddy?'
+
+'Very,' said Tegumai; 'but it has ruined all my fishing for the day.
+Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.'
+
+And so they were. First of all walked Teshumai Tewindrow and the
+Neolithic ladies, tightly holding on to the Stranger-man, whose hair was
+full of mud (although he was a Tewara). Behind them came the Head Chief,
+the Vice-Chief, the Deputy and Assistant Chiefs (all armed to the upper
+teeth), the Hetmans and Heads of Hundreds, Platoffs with their Platoons,
+and Dolmans with their Detachments; Woons, Neguses, and Akhoonds ranking
+in the rear (still armed to the teeth). Behind them was the Tribe in
+hierarchical order, from owners of four caves (one for each season), a
+private reindeer-run, and two salmon-leaps, to feudal and prognathous
+Villeins, semi-entitled to half a bearskin of winter nights, seven yards
+from the fire, and adscript serfs, holding the reversion of a scraped
+marrow-bone under heriot (Aren't those beautiful words, Best Beloved?).
+They were all there, prancing and shouting, and they frightened every
+fish for twenty miles, and Tegumai thanked them in a fluid Neolithic
+oration.
+
+Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy very much
+indeed; but the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai took Tegumai by the
+top-knot feathers and shook him severely.
+
+'Explain! Explain! Explain!' cried all the Tribe of Tegumai.
+
+'Goodness' sakes alive!' said Tegumai. 'Let go of my top-knot. Can't a
+man break his carp-spear without the whole countryside descending on
+him? You're a very interfering people.'
+
+'I don't believe you've brought my Daddy's black-handled spear after
+all,' said Taffy. 'And what _are_ you doing to my nice Stranger-man?'
+
+They were thumping him by twos and threes and tens till his eyes turned
+round and round. He could only gasp and point at Taffy.
+
+'Where are the bad people who speared you, my darling?' said Teshumai
+Tewindrow.
+
+'There weren't any,' said Tegumai. 'My only visitor this morning was the
+poor fellow that you are trying to choke. Aren't you well, or are you
+ill, O Tribe of Tegumai?'
+
+'He came with a horrible picture,' said the Head Chief,--'a picture that
+showed you were full of spears.'
+
+'Er--um--Pr'aps I'd better 'splain that I gave him that picture,' said
+Taffy, but she did not feel quite comfy.
+
+'You!' said the Tribe of Tegumai all together.
+'Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked! You?'
+
+'Taffy dear, I'm afraid we're in for a little trouble,' said her Daddy,
+and put his arm round her, so she didn't care.
+
+'Explain! Explain! Explain!' said the Head Chief of the Tribe of
+Tegumai, and he hopped on one foot.
+
+'I wanted the Stranger-man to fetch Daddy's spear, so I drawded it,'
+said Taffy. 'There wasn't lots of spears. There was only one spear. I
+drawded it three times to make sure. I couldn't help it looking as if it
+stuck into Daddy's head--there wasn't room on the birch-bark; and those
+things that Mummy called bad people are my beavers. I drawded them to
+show him the way through the swamp; and I drawded Mummy at the mouth of
+the Cave looking pleased because he is a nice Stranger-man, and _I_
+think you are just the stupidest people in the world,' said Taffy. 'He
+is a very nice man. Why have you filled his hair with mud? Wash him!'
+
+Nobody said anything at all for a long time, till the Head Chief
+laughed; then the Stranger-man (who was at least a Tewara) laughed; then
+Tegumai laughed till he fell down flat on the bank; then all the Tribe
+laughed more and worse and louder. The only people who did not laugh
+were Teshumai Tewindrow and all the Neolithic ladies. They were very
+polite to all their husbands, and said 'idiot!' ever so often.
+
+Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai cried and said and sang, 'O
+Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked, you've hit
+upon a great invention!'
+
+'I didn't intend to; I only wanted Daddy's black-handled spear,' said
+Taffy.
+
+'Never mind. It _is_ a great invention, and some day men will call it
+writing. At present it is only pictures, and, as we have seen to-day,
+pictures are not always properly understood. But a time will come, O
+Babe of Tegumai, when we shall make letters--all twenty-six of 'em,--and
+when we shall be able to read as well as to write, and then we shall
+always say exactly what we mean without any mistakes. Let the Neolithic
+ladies wash the mud out of the stranger's hair.
+
+'I shall be glad of that,' said Taffy, 'because, after all, though
+you've brought every single other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai, you've
+forgotten my Daddy's black-handled spear.'
+
+Then the Head Chief cried and said and sang, 'Taffy dear, the next time
+you write a picture-letter, you'd better send a man who can talk our
+language with it, to explain what it means. I don't mind it myself,
+because I am a Head Chief, but it's very bad for the rest of the Tribe
+of Tegumai, and, as you can see, it surprises the stranger.'
+
+Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a genuine Tewara of Tewar) into the
+Tribe of Tegumai, because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss
+about the mud that the Neolithic ladies had put into his hair. But from
+that day to this (and I suppose it is all Taffy's fault), very few
+little girls have ever liked learning to read or write. Most of them
+prefer to draw pictures and play about with their Daddies--just like
+Taffy.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the story of Taffimai Metallumai carved on an
+old tusk a very long time ago by the Ancient Peoples. If you read my
+story, or have it read to you, you can see how it is all told out on the
+tusk. The tusk was part of an old tribal trumpet that belonged to the
+Tribe of Tegumai. The pictures were scratched on it with a nail or
+something, and then the scratches were filled up with black wax, but all
+the dividing lines and the five little rounds at the bottom were filled
+with red wax. When it was new there was a sort of network of beads and
+shells and precious stones at one end of it; but now that has been
+broken and lost--all except the little bit that you see. The letters
+round the tusk are magic--Runic magic,--and if you can read them you
+will find out something rather new. The tusk is of ivory--very yellow
+and scratched. It is two feet long and two feet round, and weighs eleven
+pounds nine ounces.]
+
+
+          THERE runs a road by Merrow Down--
+            A grassy track to-day it is--
+          An hour out of Guildford town,
+            Above the river Wey it is.
+
+          Here, when they heard the horse-bells ring,
+            The ancient Britons dressed and rode
+          To watch the dark Phoenicians bring
+            Their goods along the Western Road.
+
+          And here, or hereabouts, they met
+            To hold their racial talks and such--
+          To barter beads for Whitby jet,
+            And tin for gay shell torques and such.
+
+          But long and long before that time
+            (When bison used to roam on it)
+          Did Taffy and her Daddy climb
+            That down, and had their home on it.
+
+          Then beavers built in Broadstonebrook
+            And made a swamp where Bramley stands:
+          And bears from Shere would come and look
+            For Taffimai where Shamley stands.
+
+          The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai,
+            Was more than six times bigger then;
+          And all the Tribe of Tegumai
+            They cut a noble figure then!
+
+[Illustration: How the Alphabet Was Made]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE
+
+
+THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best
+Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy's spear and the
+Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again
+with her Daddy. Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up
+hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but
+Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished.
+Presently she began to giggle, and her Daddy said, 'Don't be silly,
+child.'
+
+'But wasn't it inciting!' said Taffy. 'Don't you remember how the Head
+Chief puffed out his cheeks, and how funny the nice Stranger-man looked
+with the mud in his hair?'
+
+'Well do I,' said Tegumai. 'I had to pay two deerskins--soft ones with
+fringes--to the Stranger-man for the things we did to him.'
+
+'_We_ didn't do anything,' said Taffy. 'It was Mummy and the other
+Neolithic ladies--and the mud.'
+
+'We won't talk about that,' said her Daddy. 'Let's have lunch.'
+
+Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes,
+while her Daddy scratched on pieces of birch-bark with a shark's tooth.
+Then she said, 'Daddy, I've thinked of a secret surprise. You make a
+noise--any sort of noise.'
+
+'Ah!' said Tegumai. 'Will that do to begin with?'
+
+'Yes,' said Taffy. 'You look just like a carp-fish with its mouth open.
+Say it again, please.'
+
+'Ah! ah! ah!' said her Daddy. 'Don't be rude, my daughter.'
+
+'I'm not meaning rude, really and truly,' said Taffy. 'It's part of my
+secret-surprise-think. _Do_ say _ah_, Daddy, and keep your mouth open at
+the end, and lend me that tooth. I'm going to draw a carp-fish's mouth
+wide-open.'
+
+'What for?' said her Daddy.
+
+'Don't you see?' said Taffy, scratching away on the bark. 'That will be
+our little secret s'prise. When I draw a carp-fish with his mouth open
+in the smoke at the back of our Cave--if Mummy doesn't mind--it will
+remind you of that ah-noise. Then we can play that it was me jumped out
+of the dark and s'prised you with that noise--same as I did in the
+beaver-swamp last winter.'
+
+'Really?' said her Daddy, in the voice that grown-ups use when they are
+truly attending. 'Go on, Taffy.'
+
+[Illustration: 1]
+
+'Oh bother!' she said. 'I can't draw all of a carp-fish, but I can draw
+something that means a carp-fish's mouth. Don't you know how they stand
+on their heads rooting in the mud? Well, here's a pretence carp-fish (we
+can play that the rest of him is drawn). Here's just his mouth, and that
+means _ah_.' And she drew this. (1.)
+
+'That's not bad,' said Tegumai, and scratched on his own piece of bark
+for himself; but you've forgotten the feeler that hangs across his
+mouth.'
+
+'But I can't draw, Daddy.'
+
+'You needn't draw anything of him except just the opening of his mouth
+and the feeler across. Then we'll know he's a carp-fish, 'cause the
+perches and trouts haven't got feelers. Look here, Taffy.' And he drew
+this. (2.)
+
+[Illustration: 2]
+
+'Now I'll copy it.' said Taffy. 'Will you understand _this_ when you see
+it?' And she drew this. (3.)
+
+[Illustration: 3]
+
+'Perfectly,' said her Daddy. 'And I'll be quite as s'prised when I see
+it anywhere, as if you had jumped out from behind a tree and said "Ah!"'
+
+'Now, make another noise,' said Taffy, very proud.
+
+'Yah!' said her Daddy, very loud.
+
+'H'm,' said Taffy. 'That's a mixy noise. The end part is
+_ah_-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part?
+_Yer-yer-yer_ and _ah! Ya!'_
+
+'It's very like the carp-fish-mouth noise. Let's draw another bit of the
+carp-fish and join 'em,' said her Daddy. _He_ was quite incited too.
+
+'No. If they're joined, I'll forget. Draw it separate. Draw his tail. If
+he's standing on his head the tail will come first. 'Sides, I think I
+can draw tails easiest,' said Taffy.
+
+'A good notion,' said Tegumai. 'Here's a carp-fish tail for the
+_yer_-noise.' And he drew this. (4.)
+
+[Illustration: 4]
+
+'I'll try now,' said Taffy. ''Member I can't draw like you, Daddy. Will
+it do if I just draw the split part of the tail, and the sticky-down
+line for where it joins?' And she drew this. (5.)
+
+[Illustration: 5]
+
+Her Daddy nodded, and his eyes were shiny bright with 'citement.
+
+'That's beautiful,' she said. 'Now make another noise, Daddy.'
+
+'Oh!' said her Daddy, very loud.
+
+'That's quite easy,' said Taffy. 'You make your mouth all around like an
+egg or a stone. So an egg or a stone will do for that.'
+
+'You can't always find eggs or stones. We'll have to scratch a round
+something like one.' And he drew this. (6.)
+
+[Illustration: 6]
+
+'My gracious!' said Taffy, 'what a lot of noise-pictures we've
+made,--carp-mouth, carp-tail, and egg! Now, make another noise, Daddy.'
+
+'Ssh!' said her Daddy, and frowned to himself, but Taffy was too incited
+to notice.
+
+'That's quite easy,' she said, scratching on the bark.
+
+'Eh, what?' said her Daddy. 'I meant I was thinking, and didn't want to
+be disturbed.'
+
+'It's a noise just the same. It's the noise a snake makes, Daddy, when
+it is thinking and doesn't want to be disturbed. Let's make the
+_ssh_-noise a snake. Will this do?' And she drew this. (7.)
+
+[Illustration: 7]
+
+'There,' she said. 'That's another s'prise-secret. When you draw a
+hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave where you mend the
+spears, I'll know you're thinking hard; and I'll come in most
+mousy-quiet. And if you draw it on a tree by the river when you're
+fishing, I'll know you want me to walk most _most_ mousy-quiet, so as
+not to shake the banks.'
+
+'Perfectly true,' said Tegumai. 'And there's more in this game than you
+think. Taffy, dear, I've a notion that your Daddy's daughter has hit
+upon the finest thing that there ever was since the Tribe of Tegumai
+took to using shark's teeth instead of flints for their spear-heads. I
+believe we've found out _the_ big secret of the world.'
+
+'Why?' said Taffy, and her eyes shone too with incitement.
+
+'I'll show,' said her Daddy. 'What's water in the Tegumai language?'
+
+'_Ya_, of course, and it means river too--like Wagai-_ya_--the Wagai
+river.'
+
+'What is bad water that gives you fever if you drink it--black
+water--swamp-water?'
+
+'_Yo_, of course.'
+
+'Now look,' said her Daddy. 'S'pose you saw this scratched by the side
+of a pool in the beaver-swamp?' And he drew this. (8.)
+
+[Illustration: 8]
+
+'Carp-tail and round egg. Two noises mixed! _Yo_, bad water,' said
+Taffy. ''Course I wouldn't drink that water because I'd know you said it
+was bad.'
+
+'But I needn't be near the water at all. I might be miles away, hunting,
+and still----'
+
+'And _still_ it would be just the same as if you stood there and said,
+"G'way, Taffy, or you'll get fever." All that in a carp-fish-tail and a
+round egg! O Daddy, we must tell Mummy, quick!' and Taffy danced all
+round him.
+
+'Not yet,' said Tegumai; 'not till we've gone a little further. Let's
+see. _Yo_ is bad water, but _so_ is food cooked on the fire, isn't it?'
+And he drew this. (9.)
+
+[Illustration: 9]
+
+'Yes. Snake and egg,' said Taffy 'So that means dinner's ready. If you
+saw that scratched on a tree you'd know it was time to come to the Cave.
+So'd I.'
+
+'My Winkie!' said Tegumai. 'That's true too. But wait a minute. I see a
+difficulty. _So_ means "come and have dinner," but _sho_ means the
+drying-poles where we hang our hides.'
+
+'Horrid old drying-poles!' said Taffy. 'I hate helping to hang heavy,
+hot, hairy hides on them. If you drew the snake and egg, and I thought
+it meant dinner, and I came in from the wood and found that it meant I
+was to help Mummy hang the two hides on the drying-poles, what _would_ I
+do?'
+
+'You'd be cross. So'd Mummy. We must make a new picture for _sho_. We
+must draw a spotty snake that hisses _sh-sh_, and we'll play that the
+plain snake only hisses _ssss_.'
+
+'I couldn't be sure how to put in the spots,' said Taffy. 'And p'raps if
+_you_ were in a hurry you might leave them out, and I'd think it was
+_so_ when it was _sho_, and then Mummy would catch me just the same.
+_No!_ I think we'd better draw a picture of the horrid high drying-poles
+their very selves, and make _quite_ sure. I'll put them in just after
+the hissy-snake. Look!' And she drew this. (10.)
+
+[Illustration: 10]
+
+'P'raps that's safest. It's very like our drying-poles, anyhow,' said
+her Daddy, laughing. 'Now I'll make a new noise with a snake and
+drying-pole sound in it. I'll say _shi_. That's Tegumai for spear,
+Taffy.' And he laughed.
+
+'Don't make fun of me,' said Taffy, as she thought of her
+picture-letter and the mud in the Stranger-man's hair. '_You_ draw it,
+Daddy.'
+
+'We won't have beavers or hills this time, eh?' said her Daddy. 'I'll
+just draw a straight line for my spear.' and he drew this, (11.)
+
+[Illustration: 11]
+
+'Even Mummy couldn't mistake that for me being killed.'
+
+'_Please_ don't, Daddy. It makes me uncomfy. Do some more noises. We're
+getting on beautifully.'
+
+'Er-hm!' said Tegumai, looking up. 'We'll say _shu_. That means sky.'
+
+Taffy drew the snake and the drying-pole. Then she stopped. 'We must
+make a new picture for that end sound, mustn't we?'
+
+'_Shu-shu-u-u-u!_' said her Daddy. 'Why, it's just like the
+round-egg-sound made thin.'
+
+'Then s'pose we draw a thin round egg, and pretend it's a frog that
+hasn't eaten anything for years.'
+
+'N-no,' said her Daddy. 'If we drew that in a hurry we might mistake it
+for the round egg itself. _Shu-shu-shu!_ _I'll_ tell you what we'll do.
+We'll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the
+O-noise runs out all thin, _ooo-oo-oo_. Like this.' And he drew this.
+(12.)
+
+[Illustration: 12]
+
+'Oh, that's lovely! Much better than a thin frog. Go on,' said Taffy,
+using her shark's tooth.
+
+Her Daddy went on drawing, and his hand shook with excitement. He went
+on till he had drawn this. (13.)
+
+[Illustration: 13]
+
+'Don't look up, Taffy,' he said. 'Try if you can make out what that
+means in the Tegumai language. If you can, we've found the Secret.'
+
+'Snake--pole--broken-egg--carp-tail and carp-mouth,' said Taffy.
+'_Shu-ya._ Sky-water (rain).' Just then a drop fell on her hand, for the
+day had clouded over. 'Why, Daddy, it's raining. Was _that_ what you
+meant to tell me?'
+
+'Of course,' said her Daddy. 'And I told it you without saying a word,
+didn't I?'
+
+'Well, I _think_ I would have known it in a minute, but that raindrop
+made me quite sure. I'll always remember now. _Shu-ya_ means rain or "it
+is going to rain." Why, Daddy!' She got up and danced round him. 'S'pose
+you went out before I was awake, and drawed _shu-ya_ in the smoke on the
+wall, I'd know it was going to rain and I'd take my beaver-skin hood.
+Wouldn't Mummy be surprised!'
+
+Tegumai got up and danced. (Daddies didn't mind doing those things in
+those days.) 'More than that! More than that!' he said. 'S'pose I wanted
+to tell you it wasn't going to rain much and you must come down to the
+river, what would we draw? Say the words in Tegumai-talk first.'
+
+'_Shu-ya-las, ya maru._ (Sky-water ending. River come to.) _What_ a lot
+of new sounds! _I_ don't see how we can draw them.'
+
+'But I do--but I do!' said Tegumai. 'Just attend a minute, Taffy, and we
+won't do any more to-day. We've got _shu-ya_ all right, haven't we? but
+this _las_ is a teaser. _La-la-la!'_ and he waved his shark-tooth.
+
+'There's the hissy-snake at the end and the carp-mouth before the
+snake--_as-as-as_. We only want _la-la_,' said Taffy.
+
+'I know it, but we have to make la-la. And we're the first people in all
+the world who've ever tried to do it, Taffimai!'
+
+'Well,' said Taffy, yawning, for she was rather tired. '_Las_ means
+breaking or finishing as well as ending, doesn't it?'
+
+'So it does,' said Tegumai. '_Yo-las_ means that there's no water in the
+tank for Mummy to cook with--just when I'm going hunting, too.'
+
+'And _shi-las_ means that your spear is broken. If I'd only thought of
+_that_ instead of drawing silly beaver pictures for the Stranger!'
+
+'_La! La! La!_' said Tegumai, waving his stick and frowning. 'Oh
+bother!'
+
+'I could have drawn _shi_ quite easily,' Taffy went on. 'Then I'd have
+drawn your spear all broken--this way!' And she drew. (14.)
+
+[Illustration: 14]
+
+[Illustration: 15]
+
+[Illustration: 16]
+
+'The very thing,' said Tegumai. 'That's _la_ all over. It isn't like any
+of the other marks, either.' And he drew this. (15.)
+
+'Now for _ya_. Oh, we've done that before. Now for _maru_.
+_Mum-mum-mum_. _Mum_ shuts one's mouth up, doesn't it? We'll draw a shut
+mouth like this.' And he drew. (16.)
+
+'Then the carp-mouth open. That makes _Ma-ma-ma!_ But what about this
+_rrrrr_-thing, Taffy?'
+
+'It sounds all rough and edgy, like your shark-tooth saw when you're
+cutting out a plank for the canoe,' said Taffy.
+
+'You mean all sharp at the edges, like this?' said Tegumai. And he drew.
+(17.)
+
+[Illustration: 17]
+
+''Xactly,' said Taffy. 'But we don't want all those teeth: only put
+two.'
+
+'I'll only put in one,' said Tegumai. 'If this game of ours is going to
+be what I think it will, the easier we make our sound-pictures the
+better for everybody.' And he drew. (18.)
+
+[Illustration: 18]
+
+'_Now_ we've got it,' said Tegumai, standing on one leg. 'I'll draw 'em
+all in a string like fish.'
+
+'Hadn't we better put a little bit of stick or something between each
+word, so's they won't rub up against each other and jostle, same as if
+they were carps?'
+
+'Oh, I'll leave a space for that,' said her Daddy. And very incitedly he
+drew them all without stopping, on a big new bit of birch-bark. (19.)
+
+'_Shu-ya-las ya-maru_,' said Taffy, reading it out sound by sound.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'That's enough for to-day,' said Tegumai. 'Besides, you're getting
+tired, Taffy. Never mind, dear. We'll finish it all to-morrow, and then
+we'll be remembered for years and years after the biggest trees you can
+see are all chopped up for firewood.'
+
+So they went home, and all that evening Tegumai sat on one side of the
+fire and Taffy on the other, drawing _ya's_ and _yo's_ and _shu's_ and
+_shi's_ in the smoke on the wall and giggling together till her Mummy
+said, 'Really, Tegumai, you're worse than my Taffy.'
+
+'Please don't mind,' said Taffy. 'It's only our secret-s'prise, Mummy
+dear, and we'll tell you all about it the very minute it's done; but
+_please_ don't ask me what it is now, or else I'll have to tell.'
+
+So her Mummy most carefully didn't; and bright and early next morning
+Tegumai went down to the river to think about new sound-pictures, and
+when Taffy got up she saw _Ya-las_ (water is ending or running out)
+chalked on the side of the big stone water-tank, outside the Cave.
+
+'Um,' said Taffy. 'These picture-sounds are rather a bother! Daddy's
+just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for
+Mummy to cook with.' She went to the spring at the back of the house and
+filled the tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down to the river
+and pulled her Daddy's left ear--the one that belonged to her to pull
+when she was good.
+
+'Now come along and we'll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,' said
+her Daddy, and they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful lunch
+in the middle, and two games of romps. When they came to T, Taffy said
+that as her name, and her Daddy's, and her Mummy's all began with that
+sound, they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding
+hands. That was all very well to draw once or twice; but when it came to
+drawing it six or seven times, Taffy and Tegumai drew it scratchier and
+scratchier, till at last the T-sound was only a thin long Tegumai with
+his arms out to hold Taffy and Teshumai. You can see from these three
+pictures partly how it happened. (20, 21, 22.)
+
+[Illustration: 20]
+
+[Illustration: 21]
+
+[Illustration: 22]
+
+[Illustration: 23]
+
+[Illustration: 24]
+
+[Illustration: 25]
+
+[Illustration: 26]
+
+[Illustration: 27]
+
+Many of the other pictures were much too beautiful to begin with,
+especially before lunch, but as they were drawn over and over again on
+birch-bark, they became plainer and easier, till at last even Tegumai
+said he could find no fault with them. They turned the hissy-snake the
+other way round for the Z-sound, to show it was hissing backwards in a
+soft and gentle way (23); and they just made a twiddle for E, because it
+came into the pictures so often (24); and they drew pictures of the
+sacred Beaver of the Tegumais for the B-sound (25, 26, 27, 28); and
+because it was a nasty, nosy noise, they just drew noses for the
+N-sound, till they were tired (29); and they drew a picture of the big
+lake-pike's mouth for the greedy Ga-sound (30); and they drew the pike's
+mouth again with a spear behind it for the scratchy, hurty Ka-sound
+(31); and they drew pictures of a little bit of the winding Wagai river
+for the nice windy-windy Wa-sound (32, 33); and so on and so forth and
+so following till they had done and drawn all the sound-pictures that
+they wanted, and there was the Alphabet, all complete.
+
+[Illustration: 28]
+
+[Illustration: 29]
+
+[Illustration: 30]
+
+[Illustration: 31]
+
+[Illustration: 32]
+
+[Illustration: 33]
+
+And after thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and after
+Hieroglyphics and Demotics, and Nilotics, and Cryptics, and Cufics, and
+Runics, and Dorics, and Ionics, and all sorts of other ricks and tricks
+(because the Woons, and the Neguses, and the Akhoonds, and the
+Repositories of Tradition would never leave a good thing alone when they
+saw it), the fine old easy, understandable Alphabet--A, B, C, D, E, and
+the rest of 'em--got back into its proper shape again for all Best
+Beloveds to learn when they are old enough.
+
+But _I_ remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and Taffimai Metallumai and
+Teshumai Tewindrow, her dear Mummy, and all the days gone by. And it was
+so--just so--a little time ago--on the banks of the big Wagai!
+
+          ONE of the first things that Tegumai Bopsulai did
+          after Taffy and he had made the Alphabet was to
+          make a magic Alphabet-necklace of all the letters,
+          so that it could be put in the Temple of Tegumai
+          and kept for ever and ever. All the Tribe of
+          Tegumai brought their most precious beads and
+          beautiful things, and Taffy and Tegumai spent five
+          whole years getting the necklace in order. This is
+          a picture of the magic Alphabet-necklace. The
+          string was made of the finest and strongest
+          reindeer-sinew, bound round with thin copper wire.
+
+          Beginning at the top, the first bead is an old
+          silver one that belonged to the Head Priest of the
+          Tribe of Tegumai; then come three black
+          mussel-pearls; next is a clay bead (blue and
+          gray); next a nubbly gold bead sent as a present
+          by a tribe who got it from Africa (but it must
+          have been Indian really); the next is a long
+          flat-sided glass bead from Africa (the Tribe of
+          Tegumai took it in a fight); then come two clay
+          beads (white and green), with dots on one, and
+          dots and bands on the other; next are three rather
+          chipped amber beads; then three clay beads (red
+          and white), two with dots, and the big one in the
+          middle with a toothed pattern. Then the letters
+          begin, and between each letter is a little whitish
+          clay bead with the letter repeated small. Here are
+          the letters--
+
+  A is scratched on a tooth--an elk-tusk I think.
+
+  B is the Sacred Beaver of Tegumai on a bit of old glory.
+
+  C is a pearly oyster-shell--inside front.
+
+  D must be a sort of mussel-shell--outside front.
+
+  E is a twist of silver wire.
+
+  F is broken, but what remains of it is a bit of stag's horn.
+
+  G is painted black on a piece of wood. (The bead after G is a small
+    shell, and not a clay bead. I don't know why they did that.)
+
+  H is a kind of a big brown cowie-shell.
+
+  I is the inside part of a long shell ground down by hand. (It took
+    Tegumai three months to grind it down.)
+
+  J is a fish hook in mother-of-pearl.
+
+  L is the broken spear in silver. (K ought to follow J of course, but
+    the necklace was broken once and they mended it wrong.)
+
+  K is a thin slice of bone scratched and rubbed in black.
+
+  M is on a pale gray shell.
+
+  N is a piece of what is called porphyry with a nose scratched on it.
+    (Tegumai spent five months polishing this stone.)
+
+  O is a piece of oyster-shell with a hole in the middle.
+
+  P and Q are missing. They were lost, a long time ago, in a great
+    war, and the tribe mended the necklace with the dried rattles of
+    a rattlesnake, but no one ever found P and Q. That is how the
+    saying began, 'You must mind your P's. and Q's.'
+
+  R is, of course, just a shark's tooth.
+
+  S is a little silver snake.
+
+  T is the end of a small bone, polished brown and shiny.
+
+  U is another piece of oyster-shell.
+
+  W is a twisty piece of mother-of-pearl that they found inside a big
+    mother-of-pearl shell, and sawed off with a wire dipped in sand
+    and water. It took Taffy a month and a half to polish it and drill
+    the holes.
+
+  X is silver wire joined in the middle with a raw garnet. (Taffy
+    found the garnet.)
+
+  Y is the carp's tail in ivory.
+
+  Z is a bell-shaped piece of agate marked with Z-shaped stripes. They
+    made the Z-snake out of one of the stripes by picking out the soft
+    stone and rubbing in red sand and bee's-wax. Just in the mouth of
+    the bell you see the clay bead repeating the Z-letter.
+
+         These are all the letters.
+
+         The next bead is a small round greeny lump of
+         copper ore; the next is a lump of rough turquoise;
+         the next is a rough gold nugget (what they call
+         water-gold); the next is a melon-shaped clay bead
+         (white with green spots). Then come four flat ivory
+         pieces, with dots on them rather like dominoes;
+         then come three stone beads, very badly worn; then
+         two soft iron beads with rust-holes at the edges
+         (they must have been magic, because they look very
+         common); and last is a very very old African bead,
+         like glass--blue, red, white, black, and yellow.
+         Then comes the loop to slip over the big silver
+         button at the other end, and that is all.
+
+         I have copied the necklace very carefully. It
+         weighs one pound seven and a half ounces. The black
+         squiggle behind is only put in to make the beads
+         and things look better.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          OF all the Tribe of Tegumai
+            Who cut that figure, none remain,--
+          On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry--
+            The silence and the sun remain.
+
+          But as the faithful years return
+            And hearts unwounded sing again,
+          Comes Taffy dancing through the fern
+            To lead the Surrey spring again.
+
+          Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds,
+            And golden elf-locks fly above;
+          Her eyes are bright as diamonds
+            And bluer than the skies above.
+
+          In mocassins and deer-skin cloak,
+            Unfearing, free and fair she flits,
+          And lights her little damp-wood smoke
+            To show her Daddy where she flits.
+
+          For far--oh, very far behind,
+            So far she cannot call to him,
+          Comes Tegumai alone to find
+            The daughter that was all to him.
+
+[Illustration: The Crab that Played With the Sea]
+
+
+
+
+THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA
+
+
+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 Sea ready; and then he told all the
+Animals that they could come out and play. And the Animals said,
+'O Eldest Magician, what shall we play at?' and he said, 'I will
+show you.' He took the Elephant--All-the-Elephant-there-was--and
+said, 'Play at being an Elephant,' and All-the-Elephant-there-was
+played. He  took the Beaver--All-the-Beaver-there-was--and said,
+'Play at being a  Beaver,' and All-the-Beaver-there-was played.
+He took the Cow--All-the-Cow-there-was--and said, 'Play at
+being a  Cow,' and All-the-Cow-there-was played. He took the
+Turtle--All-the-Turtle-there-was--and said, 'Play at being a
+Turtle,' and All-the-Turtle-there-was played. One by one he took
+all the beasts and birds and fishes and told them what to play at.
+
+But towards evening, when people and things grow restless and tired,
+there came up the Man (With his own little girl-daughter?)--Yes, with
+his own best beloved little girl-daughter sitting upon his shoulder, and
+he said, 'What is this play, Eldest Magician?' And the Eldest Magician
+said, 'Ho, Son of Adam, this is the play of the Very Beginning; but you
+are too wise for this play.' And the Man saluted and said, 'Yes, I am
+too wise for this play; but see that you make all the Animals obedient
+to me.'
+
+Now, while the two were talking together, Pau Amma the Crab, who was
+next in the game, scuttled off sideways and stepped into the sea, saying
+to himself, 'I will play my play alone in the deep waters, and I will
+never be obedient to this son of Adam.' Nobody saw him go away except
+the little girl-daughter where she leaned on the Man's shoulder. And the
+play went on till there were no more Animals left without orders; and
+the Eldest Magician wiped the fine dust off his hands and walked about
+the world to see how the Animals were playing.
+
+He went North, Best Beloved, and he found All-the-Elephant-there-was
+digging with his tusks and stamping with his feet in the nice new clean
+earth that had been made ready for him.
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Elephant-there-was, meaning, 'Is this right?'
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician, meaning, 'That is quite right';
+and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that
+All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became the great
+Himalayan Mountains, and you can look them out on the map.
+
+He went East, and he found All-the-Cow-there-was feeding in the field
+that had been made ready for her, and she licked her tongue round a
+whole forest at a time, and swallowed it and sat down to chew her cud.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is a picture of Pau Amma the Crab running away
+while the Eldest Magician was talking to the Man and his Little Girl
+Daughter. The Eldest Magician is sitting on his magic throne, wrapped up
+in his Magic Cloud. The three flowers in front of him are the three
+Magic Flowers. On the top of the hill you can see
+All-the-Elephant-there-was, and All-the-Cow-there-was, and
+All-the-Turtle-there-was going off to play as the Eldest Magician told
+them. The Cow has a hump, because she was All-the-Cow-there-was; so she
+had to have all there was for all the cows that were made afterwards.
+Under the hill there are Animals who have been taught the game they were
+to play. You can see All-the-Tiger-there-was smiling at
+All-the-Bones-there-were, and you can see All-the-Elk-there-was, and
+All-the-Parrot-there-was, and All-the-Bunnies-there-were on the hill.
+The other Animals are on the other side of the hill, so I haven't drawn
+them. The little house up the hill is All-the-House-there-was. The
+Eldest Magician made it to show the Man how to make houses when he
+wanted to. The Snake round that spiky hill is All-the-Snake-there-was,
+and he is talking to All-the-Monkey-there-was, and the Monkey is being
+rude to the Snake, and the Snake is being rude to the Monkey. The Man is
+very busy talking to the Eldest Magician. The Little Girl Daughter is
+looking at Pau Amma as he runs away. That humpy thing in the water in
+front is Pau Amma. He wasn't a common Crab in those days. He was a King
+Crab. That is why he looks different. The thing that looks like bricks
+that the Man is standing in, is the Big Miz-Maze. When the Man has done
+talking with the Eldest Magician he will walk in the Big Miz-Maze,
+because he has to. The mark on the stone under the Man's foot is a magic
+mark; and down underneath I have drawn the three Magic Flowers all mixed
+up with the Magic Cloud. All this picture is Big Medicine and Strong
+Magic.]
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Cow-there-was.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the bare
+patch where she had eaten, and upon the place where she had sat down,
+and one became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert
+of Sahara, and you can look them out on the map.
+
+He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a beaver-dam
+across the mouths of broad rivers that had been got ready for him.
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Beaver-there-was.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the fallen
+trees and the still water, and they became the Everglades in Florida,
+and you may look them out on the map.
+
+Then he went South and found All-the-Turtle-there-was scratching with
+his flippers in the sand that had been got ready for him, and the sand
+and the rocks whirled through the air and fell far off into the sea.
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Turtle-there-was.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the sand
+and the rocks, where they had fallen in the sea, and they became the
+most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and the rest
+of the Malay Archipelago, and you can look _them_ out on the map!
+
+By and by the Eldest Magician met the Man on the banks of the Perak
+river, and said, 'Ho! Son of Adam, are all the Animals obedient to you?'
+
+'Yes,' said the Man.
+
+'Is all the Earth obedient to you?'
+
+'Yes,' said the Man.
+
+'Is all the Sea obedient to you?'
+
+'No,' said the Man. 'Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up the
+Perak river and drives the sweet-water back into the forest, so that my
+house is made wet; once a day and once a night it runs down the river
+and draws all the water after it, so that there is nothing left but mud,
+and my canoe is upset. Is that the play you told it to play?'
+
+'No,' said the Eldest Magician. 'That is a new and a bad play.'
+
+'Look!' said the Man, and as he spoke the great Sea came up the mouth of
+the Perak river, driving the river backwards till it overflowed all the
+dark forests for miles and miles, and flooded the Man's house.
+
+'This is wrong. Launch your canoe and we will find out who is playing
+with the Sea,' said the Eldest Magician. They stepped into the canoe;
+the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his _kris_--a
+curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame,--and they pushed out on
+the Perak river. Then the sea began to run back and back, and the canoe
+was sucked out of the mouth of the Perak river, past Selangor, past
+Malacca, past Singapore, out and out to the Island of Bingtang, as
+though it had been pulled by a string.
+
+Then the Eldest Magician stood up and shouted, 'Ho! beasts, birds, and
+fishes, that I took between my hands at the Very Beginning and taught
+the play that you should play, which one of you is playing with the
+Sea?'
+
+Then all the beasts, birds, and fishes said together, 'Eldest Magician,
+we play the plays that you taught us to play--we and our children's
+children. But not one of us plays with the Sea.'
+
+Then the Moon rose big and full over the water, and the Eldest Magician
+said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the Moon spinning a
+fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, 'Ho! Fisher
+of the Moon, are you playing with the Sea?'
+
+'No,' said the Fisherman, 'I am spinning a line with which I shall some
+day catch the world; but I do not play with the Sea.' And he went on
+spinning his line.
+
+Now there is also a Rat up in the Moon who always bites the old
+Fisherman's line as fast as it is made, and the Eldest Magician said to
+him, 'Ho! Rat of the Moon, are _you_ playing with the Sea?'
+
+And the Rat said, 'I am too busy biting through the line that this old
+Fisherman is spinning. I do not play with the Sea.' And he went on
+biting the line.
+
+Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown arms with the
+beautiful white shell bracelets and said, 'O Eldest Magician! when my
+father here talked to you at the Very Beginning, and I leaned upon his
+shoulder while the beasts were being taught their plays, one beast went
+away naughtily into the Sea before you had taught him his play.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and
+are silent! What was the beast like?'
+
+And the little girl-daughter said, 'He was round and he was flat; and
+his eyes grew upon stalks; and he walked sideways like this; and he was
+covered with strong armour upon his back.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who speak
+truth! Now I know where Pau Amma went. Give me the paddle!'
+
+So he took the paddle; but there was no need to paddle, for the water
+flowed steadily past all the islands till they came to the place called
+Pusat Tasek--the Heart of the Sea--where the great hollow is that leads
+down to the heart of the world, and in that hollow grows the Wonderful
+Tree, Pauh Janggi, that bears the magic twin nuts. Then the Eldest
+Magician slid his arm up to the shoulder through the deep warm water,
+and under the roots of the Wonderful Tree he touched the broad back of
+Pau Amma the Crab. And Pau Amma settled down at the touch, and all the
+Sea rose up as water rises in a basin when you put your hand into it.
+
+'Ah!' said the Eldest Magician. 'Now I know who has been playing with
+the Sea;' and he called out, 'What are you doing, Pau Amma?'
+
+And Pau Amma, deep down below, answered, 'Once a day and once a night I
+go out to look for my food. Once a day and once a night I return. Leave
+me alone.'
+
+Then the Eldest Magician said, 'Listen, Pau Amma. When you go out from
+your cave the waters of the Sea pour down into Pusat Tasek, and all the
+beaches of all the islands are left bare, and the little fish die, and
+Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, his legs are made muddy.
+When you come back and sit in Pusat Tasek, the waters of the Sea rise,
+and half the little islands are drowned, and the Man's house is flooded,
+and Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, his mouth is filled with
+the salt water.
+
+Then Pau Amma, deep down below, laughed and said, 'I did not know I was
+so important. Henceforward I will go out seven times a day, and the
+waters shall never be still.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'I cannot make you play the play you were
+meant to play, Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning;
+but if you are not afraid, come up and we will talk about it.'
+
+'I am not afraid,' said Pau Amma, and he rose to the top of the sea in
+the moonlight. There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma--for he
+was the King Crab of all Crabs. Not a common Crab, but a King Crab. One
+side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other touched
+the beach at Pahang; and he was taller than the smoke of three
+volcanoes! As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he
+tore off one of the great twin-fruits--the magic double-kernelled nuts
+that make people young,--and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing
+alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft
+eyes of it with her little golden scissors.
+
+'Now,' said the Magician, 'make a Magic, Pau Amma, to show that you are
+really important.'
+
+Pau Amma rolled his eyes and waved his legs, but he could only stir up
+the Sea, because, though he was a King Crab, he was nothing more than a
+Crab, and the Eldest Magician laughed.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of Pau Amma the Crab rising out of
+the sea as tall as the smoke of three volcanoes. I haven't drawn the
+three volcanoes, because Pau Amma was so big. Pau Amma is trying to make
+a Magic, but he is only a silly old King Crab, and so he can't do
+anything. You can see he is all legs and claws and empty hollow shell.
+The canoe is the canoe that the Man and the Girl Daughter and the Eldest
+Magician sailed from the Perak river in. The sea is all black and
+bobbly, because Pau Amma has just risen up out of Pusat Tasek. Pusat
+Tasek is underneath, so I haven't drawn it. The Man is waving his curvy
+_kris_-knife at Pau Amma. The Little Girl Daughter is sitting quietly in
+the middle of the canoe. She knows she is quite safe with her Daddy. The
+Eldest Magician is standing up at the other end of the canoe beginning
+to make a Magic. He has left his magic throne on the beach, and he has
+taken off his clothes so as not to get wet, and he has left the Magic
+Cloud behind too, so as not to tip the boat over. The thing that looks
+like another little canoe outside the real canoe is called an outrigger.
+It is a piece of wood tied to sticks, and it prevents the canoe from
+being tipped over. The canoe is made out of one piece of wood, and there
+is a paddle at one end of it.]
+
+'You are not so important after all, Pau Amma,' he said. 'Now, let
+_me_ try,' and he made a Magic with his left hand--with just the little
+finger of his left hand--and--lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma's
+hard, blue-green-black shell fell off him as a husk falls off a
+cocoa-nut, and Pau Amma was left all soft--soft as the little crabs that
+you sometimes find on the beach, Best Beloved.
+
+'Indeed, you are very important,' said the Eldest Magician. 'Shall I ask
+the Man here to cut you with _kris_? Shall I send for Raja Moyang Kaban,
+the King of the Elephants, to pierce you with his tusks, or shall I call
+Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, to bite you?'
+
+And Pau Amma said, 'I am ashamed! Give me back my hard shell and let me
+go back to Pusat Tasek, and I will only stir out once a day and once a
+night to get my food.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'No, Pau Amma, I will _not_ give you back
+your shell, for you will grow bigger and prouder and stronger, and
+perhaps you will forget your promise, and you will play with the Sea
+once more.'
+
+Then Pau Amma said, 'What shall I do? I am so big that I can only hide
+in Pusat Tasek, and if I go anywhere else, all soft as I am now, the
+sharks and the dogfish will eat me. And if I go to Pusat Tasek, all soft
+as I am now, though I may be safe, I can never stir out to get my food,
+and so I shall die.' Then he waved his legs and lamented.
+
+'Listen, Pau Amma,' said the Eldest Magician. 'I cannot make you play
+the play you were meant to play, because you escaped me at the Very
+Beginning; but if you choose, I can make every stone and every hole and
+every bunch of weed in all the seas a safe Pusat Tasek for you and your
+children for always.'
+
+Then Pau Amma said, 'That is good, but I do not choose yet. Look! there
+is that Man who talked to you at the Very Beginning. If he had not taken
+up your attention I should not have grown tired of waiting and run away,
+and all this would never have happened. What will _he_ do for me?'
+
+And the Man said, 'If you choose, I will make a Magic, so that both the
+deep water and the dry ground will be a home for you and your
+children--so that you shall be able to hide both on the land and in the
+sea.'
+
+And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet. Look! there is that girl who
+saw me running away at the Very Beginning. If she had spoken then, the
+Eldest Magician would have called me back, and all this would never have
+happened. What will _she_ do for me?'
+
+And the little girl-daughter said, 'This is a good nut that I am eating.
+If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of
+scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat
+cocoa-nuts like this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the
+land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for yourself with the scissors that
+belong to you when there is no stone or hole near by; and when the earth
+is too hard, by the help of these same scissors you can run up a tree.'
+
+And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet, for, all soft as I am, these
+gifts would not help me. Give me back my shell, O Eldest Magician, and
+then I will play your play.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'I will give it back, Pau Amma, for
+eleven months of the year; but on the twelfth month of every year it
+shall grow soft again, to remind you and all your children that I can
+make magics, and to keep you humble, Pau Amma; for I see that if you can
+run both under the water and on land, you will grow too bold; and if you
+can climb trees and crack nuts and dig holes with your scissors, you
+will grow too greedy, Pau Amma.'
+
+Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, 'I have made my choice. I will
+take all the gifts.'
+
+Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all five
+fingers of his right hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma
+grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a
+little green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying in a
+very small voice, 'Give me the scissors!'
+
+And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little brown
+hand, and sat him in the bottom of the canoe and gave him her scissors,
+and he waved them in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and
+snapped them, and said, 'I can eat nuts. I can crack shells. I can dig
+holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a
+safe Pusat Tasek under every stone. I did not know I was so important.
+_Kun?_' (Is this right?)
+
+'_Payah-kun_,' said the Eldest Magician, and he laughed and gave him
+his blessing; and little Pau Amma scuttled over the side of the canoe
+into the water; and he was so tiny that he could have hidden under the
+shadow of a dry leaf on land or of a dead shell at the bottom of the
+sea.
+
+'Was that well done?' said the Eldest Magician.
+
+'Yes,' said the Man. 'But now we must go back to Perak, and that is a
+weary way to paddle. If we had waited till Pau Amma had gone out of
+Pusat Tasek and come home, the water would have carried us there by
+itself.'
+
+'You are lazy,' said the Eldest Magician. 'So your children shall be
+lazy. They shall be the laziest people in the world. They shall be
+called the Malazy--the lazy people;' and he held up his finger to the
+Moon and said, 'O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home. Pull
+his canoe home with your line, Fisherman.'
+
+'No,' said the Man. 'If I am to be lazy all my days, let the Sea work
+for me twice a day for ever. That will save paddling.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician laughed and said,
+
+'_Payah kun_' (That is right).
+
+And the Rat of the Moon stopped biting the line; and the Fisherman let
+his line down till it touched the Sea, and he pulled the whole deep Sea
+along, past the Island of Bintang, past Singapore, past Malacca, past
+Selangor, till the canoe whirled into the mouth of the Perak River
+again.
+
+'_Kun?_' said the Fisherman of the Moon.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician. 'See now that you pull the Sea
+twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen may
+be saved paddling. But be careful not to do it too hard, or I shall make
+a magic on you as I did to Pau Amma.'
+
+Then they all went up the Perak River and went to bed, Best Beloved.
+
+Now listen and attend!
+
+From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea up and down and
+made what we call the tides. Sometimes the Fisher of the Sea pulls a
+little too hard, and then we get spring-tides; and sometimes he pulls a
+little too softly, and then we get what are called neap-tides; but
+nearly always he is careful, because of the Eldest Magician.
+
+And Pau Amma? You can see when you go to the beach, how all Pau Amma's
+babies make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under every stone and
+bunch of weed on the sands; you can see them waving their little
+scissors; and in some parts of the world they truly live on the dry land
+and run up the palm trees and eat cocoa-nuts, exactly as the
+girl-daughter promised. But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off
+their hard armour and be soft--to remind them of what the Eldest
+Magician could do. And so it isn't fair to kill or hunt Pau Amma's
+babies just because old Pau Amma was stupidly rude a very long time ago.
+
+Oh yes! And Pau Amma's babies hate being taken out of their little
+Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles. That is why they nip
+you with their scissors, and it serves you right!
+
+
+          CHINA-GOING P. and O.'s
+          Pass Pau Amma's playground close,
+          And his Pusat Tasek lies
+          Near the track of most B.I.'s.
+          U.Y.K. and N.D.L.
+          Know Pau Amma's home as well
+          As the fisher of the Sea knows
+          'Bens,' M.M.'s, and Rubattinos.
+          But (and this is rather queer)
+          A.T.L.'s can _not_ come here;
+          O. and O. and D.O.A.
+          Must go round another way.
+          Orient, Anchor, Bibby, Hall,
+          Never go that way at all.
+          U.C.S. would have a fit
+          If it found itself on it.
+          And if 'Beavers' took their cargoes
+          To Penang instead of Lagos,
+          Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore
+          Passengers to Singapore,
+          Or a White Star were to try a
+          Little trip to Sourabaya,
+          Or a B.S.A. went on
+          Past Natal to Cheribon,
+          Then great Mr. Lloyds would come
+          With a wire and drag them home!
+
+          You'll know what my riddle means
+          When you've eaten mangosteens.
+
+          Or if you can't wait till then, ask them to let
+          you have the outside page of the _Times_; turn
+          over to page 2, where it is marked 'Shipping' on
+          the top left hand; then take the Atlas (and that
+          is the finest picture-book in the world) and see
+          how the names of the places that the steamers go
+          to fit into the names of the places on the map.
+          Any steamer-kiddy ought to be able to do that; but
+          if you can't read, ask some one to show it you.
+
+[Illustration: The Cat that Walked by Himself]
+
+
+
+
+THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF
+
+
+HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became
+and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was
+wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was
+wild, and the Pig was wild--as wild as wild could be--and they walked in
+the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild
+animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to
+him.
+
+Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even
+begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did
+not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave,
+instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean
+sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the
+Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down, across the
+opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come
+in, and now we'll keep house.'
+
+That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones,
+and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed
+with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow-bones
+of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas. Then the Man went
+to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up,
+combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton--the big
+fat blade-bone--and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she
+threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the First
+Singing Magic in the world.
+
+Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where
+they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered
+what it meant.
+
+Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, 'O my Friends and O
+my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that
+great Cave, and what harm will it do us?'
+
+Wild Dog lifted up his wild nose and smelled the smell of roast mutton,
+and said, 'I will go up and see and look, and say; for I think it is
+good. Cat, come with me.'
+
+'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all
+places are alike to me. I will not come.'
+
+'Then we can never be friends again,' said Wild Dog, and he trotted off
+to the Cave. But when he had gone a little way the Cat said to himself,
+'All places are alike to me. Why should I not go too and see and look
+and come away at my own liking.' So he slipped after Wild Dog softly,
+very softly, and hid himself where he could hear everything.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Cave where the Man and the
+Woman lived first of all. It was really a very nice Cave, and much
+warmer than it looks. The Man had a canoe. It is on the edge of the
+river, being soaked in the water to make it swell up. The
+tattery-looking thing across the river is the Man's salmon-net to catch
+salmon with. There are nice clean stones leading up from the river to
+the mouth of the Cave, so that the Man and the Woman could go down for
+water without getting sand between their toes. The things like
+black-beetles far down the beach are really trunks of dead trees that
+floated down the river from the Wet Wild Woods on the other bank. The
+Man and the Woman used to drag them out and dry them and cut them up for
+firewood. I haven't drawn the horse-hide curtain at the mouth of the
+Cave, because the Woman has just taken it down to be cleaned. All those
+little smudges on the sand between the Cave and the river are the marks
+of the Woman's feet and the Man's feet.
+
+The Man and the Woman are both inside the Cave eating their dinner. They
+went to another cosier Cave when the Baby came, because the Baby used to
+crawl down to the river and fall in, and the Dog had to pull him out.]
+
+When Wild Dog reached the mouth of the Cave he lifted up the dried
+horse-skin with his nose and sniffed the beautiful smell of the roast
+mutton, and the Woman, looking at the blade-bone, heard him, and
+laughed, and said, 'Here comes the first. Wild Thing out of the Wild
+Woods, what do you want?'
+
+Wild Dog said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, what is this that
+smells so good in the Wild Woods?'
+
+Then the Woman picked up a roasted mutton-bone and threw it to Wild Dog,
+and said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, taste and try.' Wild Dog
+gnawed the bone, and it was more delicious than anything he had ever
+tasted, and he said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, give me another.'
+
+The Woman said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, help my Man to hunt
+through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as
+many roast bones as you need.'
+
+'Ah!' said the Cat, listening. This is a very wise Woman, but she is not
+so wise as I am.'
+
+Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid his head on the Woman's lap,
+and said, 'O my Friend and Wife of my Friend, I will help your Man to
+hunt through the day, and at night I will guard your Cave.'
+
+'Ah!' said the Cat, listening. 'That is a very foolish Dog.' And he went
+back through the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail, and walking by his
+wild lone. But he never told anybody.
+
+When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the
+Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend,
+because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him
+with you when you go hunting.'
+
+Next night the Woman cut great green armfuls of fresh grass from the
+water-meadows, and dried it before the fire, so that it smelt like
+new-mown hay, and she sat at the mouth of the Cave and plaited a halter
+out of horse-hide, and she looked at the shoulder of mutton-bone--at the
+big broad blade-bone--and she made a Magic. She made the Second Singing
+Magic in the world.
+
+Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals wondered what had happened to
+Wild Dog, and at last Wild Horse stamped with his foot and said, 'I will
+go and see and say why Wild Dog has not returned. Cat, come with me.'
+
+'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all
+places are alike to me. I will not come.' But all the same he followed
+Wild Horse softly, very softly, and hid himself where he could hear
+everything.
+
+When the Woman heard Wild Horse tripping and stumbling on his long mane,
+she laughed and said, 'Here comes the second. Wild Thing out of the Wild
+Woods what do you want?'
+
+Wild Horse said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, where is Wild Dog?'
+
+The Woman laughed, and picked up the blade-bone and looked at it, and
+said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, you did not come here for Wild
+Dog, but for the sake of this good grass.'
+
+And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on his long mane, said, 'That is
+true; give it me to eat.'
+
+The Woman said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, bend your wild head
+and wear what I give you, and you shall eat the wonderful grass three
+times a day.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'this is a clever Woman, but she is not
+so clever as I am.'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself,
+walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild
+tail. There is nothing else in the picture except some toadstools. They
+had to grow there because the woods were so wet. The lumpy thing on the
+low branch isn't a bird. It is moss that grew there because the Wild
+Woods were so wet.
+
+Underneath the truly picture is a picture of the cozy Cave that the Man
+and the Woman went to after the Baby came. It was their summer Cave, and
+they planted wheat in front of it. The Man is riding on the Horse to
+find the Cow and bring her back to the Cave to be milked. He is holding
+up his hand to call the Dog, who has swum across to the other side of
+the river, looking for rabbits.]
+
+Wild Horse bent his wild head, and the Woman slipped the plaited
+hide halter over it, and Wild Horse breathed on the Woman's feet and
+said, 'O my Mistress, and Wife of my Master, I will be your servant for
+the sake of the wonderful grass.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'that is a very foolish Horse.' And he
+went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking
+by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.
+
+When the Man and the Dog came back from hunting, the Man said, 'What is
+Wild Horse doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Horse
+any more, but the First Servant, because he will carry us from place to
+place for always and always and always. Ride on his back when you go
+hunting.'
+
+Next day, holding her wild head high that her wild horns should not
+catch in the wild trees, Wild Cow came up to the Cave, and the Cat
+followed, and hid himself just the same as before; and everything
+happened just the same as before; and the Cat said the same things as
+before, and when Wild Cow had promised to give her milk to the Woman
+every day in exchange for the wonderful grass, the Cat went back through
+the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone,
+just the same as before. But he never told anybody. And when the Man and
+the Horse and the Dog came home from hunting and asked the same
+questions same as before, the Woman said, 'Her name is not Wild Cow any
+more, but the Giver of Good Food. She will give us the warm white milk
+for always and always and always, and I will take care of her while you
+and the First Friend and the First Servant go hunting.'
+
+Next day the Cat waited to see if any other Wild thing would go up to
+the Cave, but no one moved in the Wet Wild Woods, so the Cat walked
+there by himself; and he saw the Woman milking the Cow, and he saw the
+light of the fire in the Cave, and he smelt the smell of the warm white
+milk.
+
+Cat said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, where did Wild Cow go?'
+
+The Woman laughed and said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, go back
+to the Woods again, for I have braided up my hair, and I have put away
+the magic blade-bone, and we have no more need of either friends or
+servants in our Cave.'
+
+Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who
+walks by himself, and I wish to come into your cave.'
+
+Woman said, 'Then why did you not come with First Friend on the first
+night?'
+
+Cat grew very angry and said, 'Has Wild Dog told tales of me?'
+
+Then the Woman laughed and said, 'You are the Cat who walks by himself,
+and all places are alike to you. You are neither a friend nor a servant.
+You have said it yourself. Go away and walk by yourself in all places
+alike.'
+
+Then Cat pretended to be sorry and said, 'Must I never come into the
+Cave? Must I never sit by the warm fire? Must I never drink the warm
+white milk? You are very wise and very beautiful. You should not be
+cruel even to a Cat.'
+
+Woman said, 'I knew I was wise, but I did not know I was beautiful. So I
+will make a bargain with you. If ever I say one word in your praise you
+may come into the Cave.'
+
+'And if you say two words in my praise?' said the Cat.
+
+'I never shall,' said the Woman, 'but if I say two words in your
+praise, you may sit by the fire in the Cave.'
+
+'And if you say three words?' said the Cat.
+
+'I never shall,' said the Woman, 'but if I say three words in your
+praise, you may drink the warm white milk three times a day for always
+and always and always.'
+
+Then the Cat arched his back and said, 'Now let the Curtain at the mouth
+of the Cave, and the Fire at the back of the Cave, and the Milk-pots
+that stand beside the Fire, remember what my Enemy and the Wife of my
+Enemy has said.' And he went away through the Wet Wild Woods waving his
+wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
+
+That night when the Man and the Horse and the Dog came home from
+hunting, the Woman did not tell them of the bargain that she had made
+with the Cat, because she was afraid that they might not like it.
+
+Cat went far and far away and hid himself in the Wet Wild Woods by his
+wild lone for a long time till the Woman forgot all about him. Only the
+Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung inside the Cave, knew where
+Cat hid; and every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news of what was
+happening.
+
+One evening Bat said, 'There is a Baby in the Cave. He is new and pink
+and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'but what is the Baby fond of?'
+
+'He is fond of things that are soft and tickle,' said the Bat. 'He is
+fond of warm things to hold in his arms when he goes to sleep. He is
+fond of being played with. He is fond of all those things.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'then my time has come.'
+
+Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near the
+Cave till morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse went hunting. The
+Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted.
+So she carried him outside the Cave and gave him a handful of pebbles to
+play with. But still the Baby cried.
+
+Then the Cat put out his paddy paw and patted the Baby on the cheek, and
+it cooed; and the Cat rubbed against its fat knees and tickled it under
+its fat chin with his tail. And the Baby laughed; and the Woman heard
+him and smiled.
+
+Then the Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung in the mouth of the
+Cave said, 'O my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's
+Son, a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods is most beautifully playing with
+your Baby.'
+
+'A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be,' said the Woman,
+straightening her back, 'for I was a busy woman this morning and he has
+done me a service.'
+
+The very minute and second, Best Beloved, the dried horse-skin Curtain
+that was stretched tail-down at the mouth of the Cave fell
+down--_woosh!_--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the
+Cat, and when the Woman went to pick it up--lo and behold!--the Cat was
+sitting quite comfy inside the Cave.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'it is I: for you have spoken a word in my praise, and now I can sit
+within the Cave for always and always and always. But still I am the Cat
+who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.'
+
+The Woman was very angry, and shut her lips tight and took up her
+spinning-wheel and began to spin.
+
+But the Baby cried because the Cat had gone away, and the Woman could
+not hush it, for it struggled and kicked and grew black in the face.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'take a strand of the wire that you are spinning and tie it to your
+spinning-whorl and drag it along the floor, and I will show you a magic
+that shall make your Baby laugh as loudly as he is now crying.'
+
+'I will do so,' said the Woman, 'because I am at my wits' end; but I
+will not thank you for it.'
+
+She tied the thread to the little clay spindle-whorl and drew it across
+the floor, and the Cat ran after it and patted it with his paws and
+rolled head over heels, and tossed it backward over his shoulder and
+chased it between his hind-legs and pretended to lose it, and pounced
+down upon it again, till the Baby laughed as loudly as it had been
+crying, and scrambled after the Cat and frolicked all over the Cave till
+it grew tired and settled down to sleep with the Cat in its arms.
+
+'Now,' said the Cat, 'I will sing the Baby a song that shall keep him
+asleep for an hour.' And he began to purr, loud and low, low and loud,
+till the Baby fell fast asleep. The Woman smiled as she looked down upon
+the two of them and said, 'That was wonderfully done. No question but
+you are very clever, O Cat.'
+
+That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the smoke of the fire at the
+back of the Cave came down in clouds from the roof--_puff!_--because it
+remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when it had
+cleared away--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy close to
+the fire.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'it is I, for you have spoken a second word in my praise, and now I can
+sit by the warm fire at the back of the Cave for always and always and
+always. But still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are
+alike to me.'
+
+Then the Woman was very very angry, and let down her hair and put more
+wood on the fire and brought out the broad blade-bone of the shoulder of
+mutton and began to make a Magic that should prevent her from saying a
+third word in praise of the Cat. It was not a Singing Magic, Best
+Beloved, it was a Still Magic; and by and by the Cave grew so still that
+a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner and ran across the floor.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'is that little mouse part of your magic?'
+
+'Ouh! Chee! No indeed!' said the Woman, and she dropped the blade-bone
+and jumped upon the footstool in front of the fire and braided up her
+hair very quick for fear that the mouse should run up it.
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, watching, 'then the mouse will do me no harm if I
+eat it?'
+
+'No,' said the Woman, braiding up her hair, 'eat it quickly and I will
+ever be grateful to you.'
+
+Cat made one jump and caught the little mouse, and the Woman said, 'A
+hundred thanks. Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch
+little mice as you have done. You must be very wise.'
+
+That very moment and second, O Best Beloved, the Milk-pot that stood by
+the fire cracked in two pieces--_ffft_--because it remembered the
+bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman jumped down from
+the footstool--lo and behold!--the Cat was lapping up the warm white
+milk that lay in one of the broken pieces.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'it is I; for you have spoken three words in my praise, and now I can
+drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and
+always. But _still_ I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places
+are alike to me.'
+
+Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat a bowl of the warm white milk and
+said, 'O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain
+was not made with the Man or the Dog, and I do not know what they will
+do when they come home.'
+
+'What is that to me?' said the Cat. 'If I have my place in the Cave by
+the fire and my warm white milk three times a day I do not care what the
+Man or the Dog can do.'
+
+That evening when the Man and the Dog came into the Cave, the Woman
+told them all the story of the bargain while the Cat sat by the fire and
+smiled. Then the Man said, 'Yes, but he has not made a bargain with _me_
+or with all proper Men after me.' Then he took off his two leather boots
+and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a
+piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five altogether), and he set them
+out in a row and he said, 'Now we will make _our_ bargain. If you do not
+catch mice when you are in the Cave for always and always and always, I
+will throw these five things at you whenever I see you, and so shall all
+proper Men do after me.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Woman, listening, 'this is a very clever Cat, but he is
+not so clever as my Man.'
+
+The Cat counted the five things (and they looked very knobby) and he
+said, 'I will catch mice when I am in the Cave for always and always and
+always; but _still_ I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places
+are alike to me.'
+
+'Not when I am near,' said the Man. 'If you had not said that last I
+would have put all these things away for always and always and always;
+but I am now going to throw my two boots and my little stone axe (that
+makes three) at you whenever I meet you. And so shall all proper Men do
+after me!'
+
+Then the Dog said, 'Wait a minute. He has not made a bargain with _me_
+or with all proper Dogs after me.' And he showed his teeth and said, 'If
+you are not kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave for always and
+always and always, I will hunt you till I catch you, and when I catch
+you I will bite you. And so shall all proper Dogs do after me.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Woman, listening, 'this is a very clever Cat, but he is
+not so clever as the Dog.'
+
+Cat counted the Dog's teeth (and they looked very pointed) and he said,
+'I will be kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave, as long as he does
+not pull my tail too hard, for always and always and always. But _still_
+I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.'
+
+'Not when I am near,' said the Dog. 'If you had not said that last I
+would have shut my mouth for always and always and always; but _now_ I
+am going to hunt you up a tree whenever I meet you. And so shall all
+proper Dogs do after me.'
+
+Then the Man threw his two boots and his little stone axe (that makes
+three) at the Cat, and the Cat ran out of the Cave and the Dog chased
+him up a tree; and from that day to this, Best Beloved, three proper Men
+out of five will always throw things at a Cat whenever they meet him,
+and all proper Dogs will chase him up a tree. But the Cat keeps his side
+of the bargain too. He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when
+he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard.
+But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up
+and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are
+alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild
+Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his
+wild lone.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          PUSSY can sit by the fire and sing,
+            Pussy can climb a tree,
+          Or play with a silly old cork and string
+            To 'muse herself, not me.
+          But I like _Binkie_ my dog, because
+            He knows how to behave;
+          So, _Binkie's_ the same as the First Friend was
+            And I am the Man in the Cave.
+
+          Pussy will play man-Friday till
+            It's time to wet her paw
+          And make her walk on the window-sill
+            (For the footprint Crusoe saw);
+          Then she fluffles her tail and mews,
+            And scratches and won't attend.
+          But _Binkie_ will play whatever I choose,
+            And he is my true First Friend.
+
+          Pussy will rub my knees with her head
+            Pretending she loves me hard;
+          But the very minute I go to my bed
+            Pussy runs out in the yard,
+          And there she stays till the morning-light;
+            So I know it is only pretend;
+          But _Binkie_, he snores at my feet all night,
+            And he is my Firstest Friend!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: The Butterfly that Stamped]
+
+
+
+
+THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED
+
+
+THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a
+story quite different from the other stories--a story about The Most
+Wise Sovereign Suleiman-bin-Daoud--Solomon the Son of David.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud;
+but this is not one of them. It is not the story of the Lapwing who
+found the Water; or the Hoopoe who shaded Suleiman-bin-Daoud from the
+heat. It is not the story of the Glass Pavement, or the Ruby with the
+Crooked Hole, or the Gold Bars of Balkis. It is the story of the
+Butterfly that Stamped.
+
+Now attend all over again and listen!
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud was wise. He understood what the beasts said, what
+the birds said, what the fishes said, and what the insects said. He
+understood what the rocks said deep under the earth when they bowed in
+towards each other and groaned; and he understood what the trees said
+when they rustled in the middle of the morning. He understood
+everything, from the bishop on the bench to the hyssop on the wall, and
+Balkis, his Head Queen, the Most Beautiful Queen Balkis, was nearly as
+wise as he was.
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud was strong. Upon the third finger of the right
+hand he wore a ring. When he turned it once, Afrits and Djinns came
+out of the earth to do whatever he told them. When he turned it
+twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them;
+and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of
+the Sword came dressed as a water-carrier, and told him the news of
+the three worlds,--Above--Below--and Here.
+
+And yet Suleiman-bin-Daoud was not proud. He very seldom showed off,
+and when he did he was sorry for it. Once he tried to feed all the
+animals in all the world in one day, but when the food was ready an
+Animal came out of the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said, 'O Animal, who are you?'
+And the Animal said, 'O King, live for ever! I am the smallest of thirty
+thousand brothers, and our home is at the bottom of the sea. We heard
+that you were going to feed all the animals in all the world, and my
+brothers sent me to ask when dinner would be ready.' Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+was more surprised than ever and said, 'O Animal, you have eaten all the
+dinner that I made ready for all the animals in the world.' And the
+Animal said, 'O King, live for ever, but do you really call that a
+dinner? Where I come from we each eat twice as much as that between
+meals.' Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said, 'O
+Animal! I gave that dinner to show what a great and rich king I was, and
+not because I really wanted to be kind to the animals. Now I am ashamed,
+and it serves me right.' Suleiman-bin-Daoud was a really truly wise man,
+Best Beloved. After that he never forgot that it was silly to show off;
+and now the real story part of my story begins.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Animal that came out of the
+sea and ate up all the food that Suleiman-bin-Daoud had made ready for
+all the animals in all the world. He was really quite a nice Animal, and
+his Mummy was very fond of him and of his twenty-nine thousand nine
+hundred and ninety-nine other brothers that lived at the bottom of the
+sea. You know that he was the smallest of them all, and so his name was
+Small Porgies. He ate up all those boxes and packets and bales and
+things that had been got ready for all the animals, without ever once
+taking off the lids or untying the strings, and it did not hurt him at
+all. The sticky-up masts behind the boxes of food belong to
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud's ships. They were busy bringing more food when Small
+Porgies came ashore. He did not eat the ships. They stopped unloading
+the foods and instantly sailed away to sea till Small Porgies had quite
+finished eating. You can see some of the ships beginning to sail away by
+Small Porgies' shoulder. I have not drawn Suleiman-bin-Daoud, but he is
+just outside the picture, very much astonished. The bundle hanging from
+the mast of the ship in the corner is really a package of wet dates for
+parrots to eat. I don't know the names of the ships. That is all there
+is in that picture.]
+
+He married ever so many wifes. He married nine hundred and
+ninety-nine wives, besides the Most Beautiful Balkis; and they all lived
+in a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with
+fountains. He didn't really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but
+in those days everybody married ever so many wives, and of course the
+King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King.
+
+Some of the wives were nice, but some were simply horrid, and the horrid
+ones quarrelled with the nice ones and made them horrid too, and then
+they would all quarrel with Suleiman-bin-Daoud, and that was horrid for
+him. But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud. She loved him too much. She sat in her rooms in the
+Golden Palace, or walked in the Palace garden, and was truly sorry for
+him.
+
+Of course if he had chosen to turn his ring on his finger and call up
+the Djinns and the Afrits they would have magicked all those nine
+hundred and ninety-nine quarrelsome wives into white mules of the desert
+or greyhounds or pomegranate seeds; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud thought that
+that would be showing off. So, when they quarrelled too much, he only
+walked by himself in one part of the beautiful Palace gardens and wished
+he had never been born.
+
+One day, when they had quarrelled for three weeks--all nine hundred and
+ninety-nine wives together--Suleiman-bin-Daoud went out for peace and
+quiet as usual; and among the orange trees he met Balkis the Most
+Beautiful, very sorrowful because Suleiman-bin-Daoud was so worried. And
+she said to him, 'O my Lord and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring upon
+your finger and show these Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia
+and China that you are the great and terrible King.' But
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud shook his head and said, 'O my Lady and Delight of my
+Life, remember the Animal that came out of the sea and made me ashamed
+before all the animals in all the world because I showed off. Now, if I
+showed off before these Queens of Persia and Egypt and Abyssinia and
+China, merely because they worry me, I might be made even more ashamed
+than I have been.'
+
+And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, 'O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul,
+what will you do?'
+
+And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, 'O my Lady and Content of my Heart, I
+shall continue to endure my fate at the hands of these nine hundred and
+ninety-nine Queens who vex me with their continual quarrelling.'
+
+So he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the
+cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the garden, till
+he came to the great camphor-tree that was called the Camphor Tree of
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud. But Balkis hid among the tall irises and the spotted
+bamboos and the red lillies behind the camphor-tree, so as to be near
+her own true love, Suleiman-bin-Daoud.
+
+Presently two Butterflies flew under the tree, quarrelling.
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud heard one say to the other, 'I wonder at your
+presumption in talking like this to me. Don't you know that if I stamped
+with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace and this garden here would
+immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.'
+
+Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine hundred and ninety-nine
+bothersome wives, and laughed, till the camphor-tree shook, at the
+Butterfly's boast. And he held out his finger and said, 'Little man,
+come here.'
+
+The Butterfly was dreadfully frightened, but he managed to fly up to
+the hand of Suleiman-bin-Daoud, and clung there, fanning himself.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud bent his head and whispered very softly, 'Little man,
+you know that all your stamping wouldn't bend one blade of grass. What
+made you tell that awful fib to your wife?--for doubtless she is your
+wife.'
+
+The Butterfly looked at Suleiman-bin-Daoud and saw the most wise King's
+eye twinkle like stars on a frosty night, and he picked up his courage
+with both wings, and he put his head on one side and said, 'O King, live
+for ever. She _is_ my wife; and you know what wives are like.'
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud smiled in his beard and said, 'Yes, _I_ know, little
+brother.'
+
+'One must keep them in order somehow,' said the Butterfly, 'and she has
+been quarrelling with me all the morning. I said that to quiet her.'
+
+And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, 'May it quiet her. Go back to your wife,
+little brother, and let me hear what you say.'
+
+Back flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was all of a twitter behind a
+leaf, and she said, 'He heard you! Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself heard
+you!'
+
+'Heard me!' said the Butterfly. 'Of course he did. I meant him to hear
+me.'
+
+'And what did he say? Oh, what did he say?'
+
+'Well,' said the Butterfly, fanning himself most importantly, 'between
+you and me, my dear--of course I don't blame him, because his Palace
+must have cost a great deal and the oranges are just ripening,--he asked
+me not to stamp, and I promised I wouldn't.'
+
+'Gracious!' said his wife, and sat quite quiet; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+laughed till the tears ran down his face at the impudence of the bad
+little Butterfly.
+
+Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind the tree among the red lilies
+and smiled to herself, for she had heard all this talk. She thought, 'If
+I am wise I can yet save my Lord from the persecutions of these
+quarrelsome Queens,' and she held out her finger and whispered softly to
+the Butterfly's Wife, 'Little woman, come here.' Up flew the Butterfly's
+Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis's white hand.
+
+Balkis bent her beautiful head down and whispered, 'Little woman, do
+you believe what your husband has just said?'
+
+The Butterfly's Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful
+Queen's eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she
+picked up her courage with both wings and said, 'O Queen, be lovely for
+ever. _You_ know what men-folk are like.'
+
+And the Queen Balkis, the Wise Balkis of Sheba, put her hand to her lips
+to hide a smile and said, 'Little sister, _I_ know.'
+
+'They get angry,' said the Butterfly's Wife, fanning herself quickly,
+'over nothing at all, but we must humour them, O Queen. They never mean
+half they say. If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can
+make Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I'm
+sure _I_ don't care. He'll forget all about it to-morrow.'
+
+'Little sister,' said Balkis, 'you are quite right; but next time he
+begins to boast, take him at his word. Ask him to stamp, and see what
+will happen. _We_ know what men-folk are like, don't we? He'll be very
+much ashamed.'
+
+Away flew the Butterfly's Wife to her husband, and in five minutes they
+were quarrelling worse than ever.
+
+'Remember!' said the Butterfly. 'Remember what I can do if I stamp my
+foot.'
+
+'I don't believe you one little bit,' said the Butterfly's Wife. 'I
+should very much like to see it done. Suppose you stamp now.'
+
+'I promised Suleiman-bin-Daoud that I wouldn't,' said the Butterfly,
+'and I don't want to break my promise.'
+
+'It wouldn't matter if you did,' said his wife. 'You couldn't bend a
+blade of grass with your stamping. I dare you to do it,' she said.
+'Stamp! Stamp! Stamp!'
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud, sitting under the camphor-tree, heard every word of
+this, and he laughed as he had never laughed in his life before. He
+forgot all about his Queens; he forgot all about the Animal that came
+out of the sea; he forgot about showing off. He just laughed with joy,
+and Balkis, on the other side of the tree, smiled because her own true
+love was so joyful.
+
+Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under
+the shadow of the camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, 'She wants me to
+stamp! She wants to see what will happen, O Suleiman-bin-Daoud! You know
+I can't do it, and now she'll never believe a word I say. She'll laugh
+at me to the end of my days!'
+
+'No, little brother,' said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, 'she will never laugh at
+you again,' and he turned the ring on his finger--just for the little
+Butterfly's sake, not for the sake of showing off,--and, lo and behold,
+four huge Djinns came out of the earth!
+
+'Slaves,' said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, 'when this gentleman on my finger'
+(that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) 'stamps his left
+front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a
+clap of thunder. When he stamps again you will bring them back
+carefully.'
+
+'Now, little brother,' he said, 'go back to your wife and stamp all
+you've a mind to.'
+
+Away flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was crying, 'I dare you to do
+it! I dare you to do it! Stamp! Stamp now! Stamp!' Balkis saw the four
+vast Djinns stoop down to the four corners of the gardens with the
+Palace in the middle, and she clapped her hands softly and said, 'At
+last Suleiman-bin-Daoud will do for the sake of a Butterfly what he
+ought to have done long ago for his own sake, and the quarrelsome Queens
+will be frightened!'
+
+Then the Butterfly stamped. The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens
+a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder-clap, and
+everything grew inky-black. The Butterfly's Wife fluttered about in the
+dark, crying, 'Oh, I'll be good! I'm so sorry I spoke. Only bring the
+gardens back, my dear darling husband, and I'll never contradict again.'
+
+The Butterfly was nearly as frightened as his wife, and
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud laughed so much that it was several minutes before he
+found breath enough to whisper to the Butterfly, 'Stamp again, little
+brother. Give me back my Palace, most great magician.'
+
+'Yes, give him back his Palace,' said the Butterfly's Wife, still flying
+about in the dark like a moth. 'Give him back his Palace, and don't
+let's have any more horrid magic.'
+
+'Well, my dear,' said the Butterfly as bravely as he could, 'you see
+what your nagging has led to. Of course it doesn't make any difference
+to _me_--I'm used to this kind of thing--but as a favour to you and to
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud I don't mind putting things right.'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the four gull-winged Djinns
+lifting up Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace the very minute after the
+Butterfly had stamped. The Palace and the gardens and everything came up
+in one piece like a board, and they left a big hole in the ground all
+full of dust and smoke. If you look in the corner, close to the thing
+that looks like a lion, you will see Suleiman-bin-Daoud with his magic
+stick and the two Butterflies behind him. The thing that looks like a
+lion is really a lion carved in stone, and the thing that looks like a
+milk-can is really a piece of a temple or a house or something.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud stood there so as to be out of the way of the dust
+and the smoke when the Djinns lifted up the Palace. I don't know the
+Djinns' names. They were servants of Suleiman-bin-Daoud's magic ring,
+and they changed about every day. They were just common gull-winged
+Djinns.
+
+The thing at the bottom is a picture of a very friendly Djinn called
+Akraig. He used to feed the little fishes in the sea three times a day,
+and his wings were made of pure copper. I put him in to show you what a
+nice Djinn is like. He did not help to lift the Palace. He was busy
+feeding little fishes in the Arabian Sea when it happened.]
+
+So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace
+and the gardens, without even a bump. The sun shone on the dark-green
+orange leaves; the fountains played among the pink Egyptian lilies; the
+birds went on singing, and the Butterfly's Wife lay on her side under
+the camphor-tree waggling her wings and panting, 'Oh, I'll be good! I'll
+be good!'
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud could hardly speak for laughing. He leaned back all
+weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, 'O
+great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the
+same time you slay me with mirth!'
+
+Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine hundred and ninety-nine
+Queens ran out of the Palace shrieking and shouting and calling for
+their babies. They hurried down the great marble steps below the
+fountain, one hundred abreast, and the Most Wise Balkis went statelily
+forward to meet them and said, 'What is your trouble, O Queens?'
+
+They stood on the marble steps one hundred abreast and shouted, '_What_
+is our trouble? We were living peacefully in our golden palace, as is
+our custom, when upon a sudden the Palace disappeared, and we were left
+sitting in a thick and noisome darkness; and it thundered, and Djinns
+and Afrits moved about in the darkness! _That_ is our trouble, O Head
+Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble,
+for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.'
+
+Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen--Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Very Best
+Beloved--Queen that was of Sheba and Sabie and the Rivers of the Gold of
+the South--from the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe--Balkis,
+almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself, said, 'It is
+nothing, O Queens! A Butterfly has made complaint against his wife
+because she quarrelled with him, and it has pleased our Lord
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud to teach her a lesson in low-speaking and humbleness,
+for that is counted a virtue among the wives of the butterflies.'
+
+Then up and spoke an Egyptian Queen--the daughter of a Pharaoh--and she
+said, 'Our Palace cannot be plucked up by the roots like a leek for the
+sake of a little insect. No! Suleiman-bin-Daoud must be dead, and what
+we heard and saw was the earth thundering and darkening at the news.'
+
+Then Balkis beckoned that bold Queen without looking at her, and said to
+her and to the others, 'Come and see.'
+
+They came down the marble steps, one hundred abreast, and beneath his
+camphor-tree, still weak with laughing, they saw the Most Wise King
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud rocking back and forth with a Butterfly on either
+hand, and they heard him say, 'O wife of my brother in the air, remember
+after this, to please your husband in all things, lest he be provoked to
+stamp his foot yet again; for he has said that he is used to this magic,
+and he is most eminently a great magician--one who steals away the very
+Palace of Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself. Go in peace, little folk!' And he
+kissed them on the wings, and they flew away.
+
+Then all the Queens except Balkis--the Most Beautiful and Splendid
+Balkis, who stood apart smiling--fell flat on their faces, for they
+said, 'If these things are done when a Butterfly is displeased with his
+wife, what shall be done to us who have vexed our King with our
+loud-speaking and open quarrelling through many days?'
+
+Then they put their veils over their heads, and they put their hands
+over their mouths, and they tiptoed back to the Palace most mousy-quiet.
+
+Then Balkis--The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis--went forward
+through the red lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and laid her
+hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud's shoulder and said, 'O my Lord and
+Treasure of my Soul, rejoice, for we have taught the Queens of Egypt and
+Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China with a great and a
+memorable teaching.'
+
+And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they
+played in the sunlight, said, 'O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when
+did this happen? For I have been jesting with a Butterfly ever since I
+came into the garden.' And he told Balkis what he had done.
+
+Balkis--The tender and Most Lovely Balkis--said, 'O my Lord and Regent
+of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all. It was I
+who told the Butterfly's Wife to ask the Butterfly to stamp, because I
+hoped that for the sake of the jest my Lord would make some great magic
+and that the Queens would see it and be frightened.' And she told him
+what the Queens had said and seen and thought.
+
+Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor-tree,
+and stretched his arms and rejoiced and said, 'O my Lady and Sweetener
+of my Days, know that if I had made a magic against my Queens for the
+sake of pride or anger, as I made that feast for all the animals, I
+should certainly have been put to shame. But by means of your wisdom I
+made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little
+Butterfly, and--behold--it has also delivered me from the vexations of
+my vexatious wives! Tell me, therefore, O my Lady and Heart of my Heart,
+how did you come to be so wise?'
+
+And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud's eyes and put her head a little on one side, just
+like the Butterfly, and said, 'First, O my Lord, because I loved you;
+and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.'
+
+Then they went up to the Palace and lived happily ever afterwards.
+
+But wasn't it clever of Balkis?
+
+
+          THERE was never a Queen like Balkis,
+            From here to the wide world's end;
+          But Balkis talked to a butterfly
+            As you would talk to a friend.
+
+          There was never a King like Solomon,
+            Not since the world began;
+          But Solomon talked to a butterfly
+            As a man would talk to a man.
+
+          _She_ was Queen of Sabæa--
+            And _he_ was Asia's Lord--
+          But they both of 'em talked to butterflies
+            When they took their walks abroad!
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+Page 157, "waiving" changed to "waving" (Tegumai, waving his)
+
+Page 159, caption "19" was added to illustration.
+
+Page 198, "you" changed to "your" (Wipe your feet)
+
+Page 211, "Your" changed to "You" (You are neither a)
+
+Page 213, "ths" changed to "the" (and the Woman heard him)
+
+Page 225, word "is" added to text (but this is not one)
+
+Page 244, "Pharoah" changed to "Pharaoh" (daughter of a Pharaoh)
+
+Page 278, "Sueliman" changed to "Suleiman" (Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+rose up)
+
+
+
+
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/gs01.png" width="450" height="174" alt="JUST SO STORIES" title="" />
+</div>
+
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+</p></div>
+<h1>JUST SO STORIES</h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;">
+<img src="images/col01.jpg" width="351" height="500" alt="How the Whale Got His Throat" title="" />
+<span class="caption">How the Whale Got His Throat</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;">
+<img src="images/title.jpg" width="383" height="600" alt="Title" title="" />
+</div>
+<h1>JVST SO STORIES</h1>
+
+<h3>BY</h3>
+<h2>RVDYARD KIPLING</h2>
+
+
+<div class='center'><i>Pictures by<br />
+Joseph M. Gleeson</i><br />
+
+<br />
+Doubleday Page &amp; Company<br />
+1912<br />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+<div class='copyright'>
+Copyright, 1912, by Rudyard Kipling<br />
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"Just So Stories," have also been copyrighted
+separately as follows: How the
+Whale Got His Tiny Throat. Copyright,
+1897, by the Century Company. How the
+Camel Got His Hump. Copyright, 1897,
+by the Century Company. How the Rhinoceros
+Got His Wrinkly Skin. Copyright,
+1898, by the Century Company. The Elephant's
+Child. Copyright, 1900, by Rudyard
+Kipling; Copyright, 1900, by the Curtis
+Publishing Company. The Beginning of the
+Armadillos. Copyright, 1900, by Rudyard
+Kipling. The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo.
+Copyright, 1900 by Rudyard Kipling.
+How the Leopard Got His Spots,
+Copyright, 1901, by Rudyard Kipling. How
+the First Letter Was Written. Copyright,
+1901, by Rudyard Kipling. The Cat That
+Walked by Himself, Copyright, 1902, by
+Rudyard Kipling.</p></div></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+
+<div class='center'> <table class="toc" summary="toc">
+<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />
+<br /><br />
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2><br /><br />
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents">
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>How the Whale Got His Throat</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>How the Camel Got His Hump</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>How the Leopard Got His Spots</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>The Elephant's Child</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>The Beginning of the Armadillos</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>How the First Letter was Written</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>How the Alphabet was Made</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_145">145</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>The Crab that Played with the Sea</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_171">171</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>The Cat that Walked by Himself</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_197">197</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>The Butterfly that Stamped</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_225">225</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td>
+</tr></table></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a>[<a href="images/io-1.png">1</a>]</span></p>
+
+<h2>HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 106px;">
+<img src="images/gs02-i.png" width="106" height="400" alt="I" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><b>N</b> the sea, once upon a time, O
+my Best Beloved, there was a
+Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate
+the starfish and the garfish, and
+the crab and the dab, and the plaice
+and the dace, and the skate and
+his mate, and the mackereel and
+the pickereel, and the really truly
+twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes
+he could find in all the sea he ate
+with his mouth&mdash;so! Till at last
+there was only one small fish left in
+all the sea, and he was a small 'Stute
+Fish, and he swam a little behind the
+Whale's right ear, so as to be out of
+harm's way. Then the Whale stood
+up on his tail and said, 'I'm hungry.' And the
+small 'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a>[<a href="images/io-2.png">2</a>]</span>
+'Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever
+tasted Man?'</div>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Whale. 'What is it like?'</p>
+
+<p>'Nice,' said the small 'Stute Fish. 'Nice
+but nubbly.'</p>
+
+<p>'Then fetch me some,' said the Whale, and
+he made the sea froth up with his tail.</p>
+
+<p>'One at a time is enough,' said the 'Stute Fish.
+'If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude
+Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting
+<i>on</i> a raft, <i>in</i> the middle of the sea, with nothing
+on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of
+suspenders (you must <i>not</i> forget the suspenders,
+Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one shipwrecked
+Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell
+you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.'</p>
+
+<p>So the Whale swam and swam to latitude
+Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he
+could swim, and <i>on</i> a raft, <i>in</i> the middle of
+the sea, <i>with</i> nothing to wear except a pair of
+blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you
+must particularly remember the suspenders, Best
+Beloved), <i>and</i> a jack-knife, he found one single,
+solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes
+in the water. (He had his mummy's leave to
+paddle, or else he would never have done it,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a>[<a href="images/io-3.png">3</a>]</span>
+because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.)</p>
+
+<p>Then the Whale opened his mouth back and
+back and back till it nearly touched his tail, and
+he swallowed the shipwrecked Mariner, and the
+raft he was sitting on, and his blue canvas
+breeches, and the suspenders (which you <i>must</i>
+not forget), <i>and</i> the jack-knife&mdash;He swallowed
+them all down into his warm, dark, inside cupboards,
+and then he smacked his lips&mdash;so, and
+turned round three times on his tail.</p>
+
+<p>But as soon as the Mariner, who was a man
+of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, found himself
+truly inside the Whale's warm, dark, inside cupboards,
+he stumped and he jumped and he
+thumped and he bumped, and he pranced and
+he danced, and he banged and he clanged, and
+he hit and he bit, and he leaped and he creeped,
+and he prowled and he howled, and he hopped
+and he dropped, and he cried and he sighed,
+and he crawled and he bawled, and he stepped
+and he lepped, and he danced hornpipes
+where he shouldn't, and the Whale felt most
+unhappy indeed. (<i>Have</i> you forgotten the
+suspenders?)</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;">
+<a href="images/io-4.png"><img src="images/gs03.png" width="550" height="396" alt="This is the picture of the Whale swallowing the Mariner with his infinite-resource-and-sagacity, and the raft and the jack-knife and his suspenders, which you must not forget." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="caption2"><span class='smcap'>This</span> is the picture of the Whale swallowing the Mariner with his infinite-resource-and-sagacity,
+and the raft and the jack-knife and his suspenders,
+which you must not forget. The buttony-things are the Mariner&#39;s suspenders,
+and you can see the knife close by them. He is sitting on the raft,
+but it has tilted up sideways, so you don&#39;t see much of it. The whity
+thing by the Mariner&#39;s left hand is a piece of wood that he was trying to
+row the raft with when the Whale came along. The piece of wood is
+called the jaws-of-a-gaff. The Mariner left it outside when he went in.
+The Whale&#39;s name was Smiler, and the Mariner was called Mr. Henry
+Albert Bivvens, A.B. The little &#39;Stute Fish is hiding under the Whale&#39;s
+tummy, or else I would have drawn him. The reason that the sea looks
+so ooshy-skooshy is because the Whale is sucking it all into his mouth
+so as to suck in Mr. Henry Albert Bivvens and the raft and the jack-knife
+and the suspenders. You must never forget the suspenders.</div>
+
+
+<p>So he said to the 'Stute Fish, 'This man is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a>[<a href="images/io-7.png">7</a>]</span>
+very nubbly, and besides he is making me
+hiccough. What shall I do?'</p>
+
+<p>'Tell him to come out,' said the 'Stute Fish.</p>
+
+<p>So the Whale called down his own throat to
+the shipwrecked Mariner, 'Come out and behave
+yourself. I've got the hiccoughs.'</p>
+
+<p>'Nay, nay!' said the Mariner. 'Not so, but
+far otherwise. Take me to my natal-shore and
+the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and I'll think about
+it.' And he began to dance more than ever.</p>
+
+<p>'You had better take him home,' said the
+'Stute Fish to the Whale. 'I ought to have
+warned you that he is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.'</p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;">
+<a href="images/io-8.png"><img src="images/gs04.png" width="342" height="500" alt="Here is the Whale looking for the little &#39;Stute Fish, who is hiding under the Door-sills of the Equator." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">Here</span> is the Whale looking for the little 'Stute Fish, who is hiding under
+the Door-sills of the Equator. The little 'Stute Fish's name was Pingle.
+He is hiding among the roots of the big seaweed that grows in front of
+the Doors of the Equator. I have drawn the Doors of the Equator. They
+are shut. They are always kept shut, because a door ought always to be
+kept shut. The ropy-thing right across is the Equator itself; and the
+things that look like rocks are the two giants Moar and Koar, that keep
+the Equator in order. They drew the shadow-pictures on the doors of the
+Equator, and they carved all those twisty fishes under the Doors. The
+beaky-fish are called beaked Dolphins, and the other fish with the queer
+heads are called Hammer-headed Sharks. The Whale never found the
+little 'Stute Fish till he got over his temper, and then they became good
+friends again.</div>
+
+
+<p>So the Whale swam and swam and swam,
+with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he
+could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the
+Mariner's natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion,
+and he rushed half-way up the beach,
+and opened his mouth wide and wide and
+wide, and said, 'Change here for Winchester,
+Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the
+<i>Fitch</i>burg Road;' and just as he said 'Fitch'
+the Mariner walked out of his mouth. But while
+the Whale had been swimming, the Mariner, who
+was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a>[<a href="images/io-11.png">11</a>]</span>
+had taken his jack-knife and cut up
+the raft into a little square grating all running
+criss-cross, and he had tied it firm with his
+suspenders (<i>now</i> you know why you were not to
+forget the suspenders!), and he dragged that
+grating good and tight into the Whale's throat,
+and there it stuck! Then he recited the following
+<i>Sloka</i>, which, as you have not heard it, I
+will now proceed to relate&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+By means of a grating<br />
+I have stopped your ating.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p>For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an.
+And he stepped out on the shingle, and went
+home to his mother, who had given him leave
+to trail his toes in the water; and he married
+and lived happily ever afterward. So did the
+Whale. But from that day on, the grating in his
+throat, which he could neither cough up nor
+swallow down, prevented him eating anything
+except very, very small fish; and that is the
+reason why whales nowadays never eat men or
+boys or little girls.</p>
+
+<p>The small 'Stute Fish went and hid himself in
+the mud under the Door-sills of the Equator.
+He was afraid that the Whale might be angry
+with him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a>[<a href="images/io-12.png">12</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>The Sailor took the jack-knife home. He
+was wearing the blue canvas breeches when he
+walked out on the shingle. The suspenders
+were left behind, you see, to tie the grating
+with; and that is the end of <i>that</i> tale.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/gs05.png" width="400" height="130" alt="Whale" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a>[<a href="images/io-13.png">13</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">When</span> the cabin port-holes are dark and green<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Because of the seas outside;</span><br />
+When the ship goes <i>wop</i> (with a wiggle between)<br />
+And the steward falls into the soup-tureen,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And the trunks begin to slide;</span><br />
+When Nursey lies on the floor in a heap,<br />
+And Mummy tells you to let her sleep,<br />
+And you aren't waked or washed or dressed,<br />
+Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed)<br />
+You're 'Fifty North and Forty West!'<br />
+<br /></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;">
+<img src="images/col02.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt="How the Camel Got His Hump" title="" />
+<span class="caption">How the Camel Got His Hump</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a>[<a href="images/io-15.png">15</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 208px;">
+<img src="images/gs06.png" width="208" height="250" alt="N" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><b>OW</b> this is the next
+tale, and it tells how
+the Camel got his big
+hump.</div>
+
+<p>In the beginning
+of years, when the
+world was so new and
+all, and the Animals
+were just beginning to
+work for Man, there
+was a Camel, and he
+lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because
+he did not want to work; and besides,
+he was a Howler himself. So he ate sticks
+and thorns and tamarisks and milkweed and
+prickles, most 'scruciating idle; and when
+anybody spoke to him he said 'Humph!'
+Just 'Humph!' and no more.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a>[<a href="images/io-16.png">16</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>Presently the Horse came to him on
+Monday morning, with a saddle on his back and
+a bit in his mouth, and said, 'Camel, O Camel,
+come out and trot like the rest of us.'</p>
+
+<p>'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Horse
+went away and told the Man.</p>
+
+<p>Presently the Dog came to him, with a stick
+in his mouth, and said, 'Camel, O Camel, come
+and fetch and carry like the rest of us.'</p>
+
+<p>'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Dog
+went away and told the Man.</p>
+
+<p>Presently the Ox came to him, with the yoke
+on his neck and said, 'Camel, O Camel, come
+and plough like the rest of us.'</p>
+
+<p>'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Ox went
+away and told the Man.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of the day the Man called the
+Horse and the Dog and the Ox together, and
+said, 'Three, O Three, I'm very sorry for you
+(with the world so new-and-all); but that
+Humph-thing in the Desert can't work, or he
+would have been here by now, so I am going to
+leave him alone, and you must work double-time
+to make up for it.'</p>
+
+<p>That made the Three very angry (with the
+world so new-and-all), and they held a palaver,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a>[<a href="images/io-17.png">17</a>]</span>
+and an <i>indaba</i>, and a <i>punchayet</i>, and a pow-wow
+on the edge of the Desert; and the Camel
+came chewing milkweed <i>most</i> 'scruciating idle,
+and laughed at them. Then he said 'Humph!'
+and went away again.</p>
+
+<p>Presently there came along the Djinn in
+charge of All Deserts, rolling in a cloud of dust
+(Djinns always travel that way because it is
+Magic), and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow
+with the Three.</p>
+
+<p>'Djinn of All Deserts,' said the Horse, '<i>is</i> it
+right for any one to be idle, with the world so
+new-and-all?'</p>
+
+<p>'Certainly not,' said the Djinn.</p>
+
+<p>'Well,' said the Horse, 'there's a thing
+in the middle of your Howling Desert (and
+he's a Howler himself) with a long neck and
+long legs, and he hasn't done a stroke of
+work since Monday morning. He won't
+trot.'</p>
+
+<p>'Whew!' said the Djinn, whistling, 'that's
+my Camel, for all the gold in Arabia! What
+does he say about it?'</p>
+
+<p>'He says "Humph!"' said the Dog; 'and
+he won't fetch and carry.'</p>
+
+<p>'Does he say anything else?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a>[<a href="images/io-18.png">18</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/io-18.png"><img src="images/gs07.png" width="400" height="342" alt="This is the picture of the Djinn making the beginnings of the Magic that brought the Humph to the Camel." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of the Djinn making the beginnings of the Magic
+that brought the Humph to the Camel. First he drew a line in the air
+with his finger, and it became solid; and then he made a cloud, and then
+he made an egg&mdash;you can see them both at the bottom of the picture&mdash;and
+then there was a magic pumpkin that turned into a big white flame.
+Then the Djinn took his magic fan and fanned that flame till the flame
+turned into a magic by itself. It was a good Magic and a very kind Magic
+really, though it had to give the Camel a Humph because the Camel was
+lazy. The Djinn in charge of All Deserts was one of the nicest of the
+Djinns, so he would never do anything really unkind.</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a>[<a href="images/io-21.png">21</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'Only "Humph!"; and he won't plough,'
+said the Ox.</p>
+
+<p>'Very good,' said the Djinn. 'I'll humph
+him if you will kindly wait a minute.'</p>
+
+<p>The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak,
+and took a bearing across the desert,
+and found the Camel most 'scruciatingly idle,
+looking at his own reflection in a pool of water.</p>
+
+<p>'My long and bubbling friend,' said the
+Djinn, 'what's this I hear of your doing no
+work, with the world so new-and-all?'</p>
+
+<p>'Humph!' said the Camel.</p>
+
+<p>The Djinn sat down, with his chin in his
+hand, and began to think a Great Magic, while
+the Camel looked at his own reflection in the
+pool of water.</p>
+
+<p>'You've given the Three extra work ever
+since Monday morning, all on account of your
+'scruciating idleness,' said the Djinn; and he
+went on thinking Magics, with his chin in
+his hand.</p>
+
+<p>'Humph!' said the Camel.</p>
+
+<p>'I shouldn't say that again if I were you,'
+said the Djinn; 'you might say it once too
+often. Bubbles, I want you to work.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 388px;">
+<a href="images/io-22.png"><img src="images/gs08.png" width="388" height="500" alt="Here is the picture of the Djinn in charge of All Deserts guiding the Magic with his magic fan." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">Here</span> is the picture of the Djinn in charge of All Deserts guiding the
+Magic with his magic fan. The camel is eating a twig of acacia, and he
+has just finished saying "humph" once too often (the Djinn told him he
+would), and so the Humph is coming. The long towelly-thing growing
+out of the thing like an onion is the Magic, and you can see the Humph
+on its shoulder. The Humph fits on the flat part of the Camel's back.
+The Camel is too busy looking at his own beautiful self in the pool of
+water to know what is going to happen to him.<br />
+
+<p>Underneath the truly picture is a picture of the World-so-new-and-all.
+There are two smoky volcanoes in it, some other mountains and some
+stones and a lake and a black island and a twisty river and a lot of other
+things, as well as a Noah's Ark. I couldn't draw all the deserts that the
+Djinn was in charge of, so I only drew one, but it is a most deserty desert.</p></div>
+<p>And the Camel said 'Humph!' again; but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a>[<a href="images/io-25.png">25</a>]</span>
+no sooner had he said it than he saw his back,
+that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing
+up into a great big lolloping humph.</p>
+
+<p>'Do you see that?' said the Djinn. 'That's
+your very own humph that you've brought upon
+your very own self by not working. To-day
+is Thursday, and you've done no work since
+Monday, when the work began. Now you are
+going to work.'</p>
+
+<p>'How can I,' said the Camel, 'with this
+humph on my back?'</p>
+
+<p>'That's made a-purpose,' said the Djinn, 'all
+because you missed those three days. You will
+be able to work now for three days without
+eating, because you can live on your humph;
+and don't you ever say I never did anything for
+you. Come out of the Desert and go to the
+Three, and behave. Humph yourself!'</p>
+
+<p>And the Camel humphed himself, humph
+and all, and went away to join the Three. And
+from that day to this the Camel always wears a
+humph (we call it 'hump' now, not to hurt
+his feelings); but he has never yet caught up
+with the three days that he missed at the beginning
+of the world, and he has never yet learned
+how to behave.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a>[<a href="images/io-27.png">27</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">The</span> Camel's hump is an ugly lump<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Which well you may see at the Zoo;</span><br />
+But uglier yet is the hump we get<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From having too little to do.</span><br />
+<br />
+Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,<br />
+If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">We get the hump&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Cameelious hump&mdash;</span><br />
+The hump that is black and blue!<br />
+<br />
+We climb out of bed with a frouzly head<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a snarly-yarly voice.</span><br />
+We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">At our bath and our boots and our toys;</span><br />
+<br />
+And there ought to be a corner for me<br />
+(And I know there is one for you)<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">When we get the hump&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Cameelious hump&mdash;</span><br />
+The hump that is black and blue!<br />
+<br />
+The cure for this ill is not to sit still,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or frowst with a book by the fire;</span><br />
+But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And dig till you gently perspire;</span><br />
+<br />
+And then you will find that the sun and the wind,<br />
+And the Djinn of the Garden too,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Have lifted the hump&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The horrible hump&mdash;</span><br />
+The hump that is black and blue!<br />
+<br />
+I get it as well as you-oo-oo&mdash;<br />
+If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">We all get hump&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Cameelious hump&mdash;</span><br />
+Kiddies and grown-ups too!<br /><br />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;">
+<img src="images/col03.jpg" width="358" height="500" alt="How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin" title="" />
+<span class="caption">How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a>[<a href="images/io-29.png">29</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/gs09.png" width="200" height="250" alt="O" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><b>NCE</b> upon a time, on an
+uninhabited island on
+the shores of the Red
+Sea, there lived a Parsee
+from whose hat the rays
+of the sun were reflected
+in more-than-oriental
+splendour. And the
+Parsee lived by the Red
+Sea with nothing but his
+hat and his knife and a
+cooking-stove of the
+kind that you must particularly never touch.
+And one day he took flour and water and currants
+and plums and sugar and things, and made
+himself one cake which was two feet across and
+three feet thick. It was indeed a Superior<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a>[<a href="images/io-30.png">30</a>]</span>
+Comestible (<i>that's</i> magic), and he put it on the
+stove because <i>he</i> was allowed to cook on that
+stove, and he baked it and he baked it till it
+was all done brown and smelt most sentimental.
+But just as he was going to eat it there came
+down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited
+Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on
+his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners. In
+those days the Rhinoceros's skin fitted him
+quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anywhere.
+He looked exactly like a Noah's Ark
+Rhinoceros, but of course much bigger. All
+the same, he had no manners then, and he has
+no manners now, and he never will have any
+manners. He said, 'How!' and the Parsee left
+that cake and climbed to the top of a palm tree
+with nothing on but his hat, from which the
+rays of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental
+splendour. And the Rhinoceros
+upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake
+rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on
+the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went
+away, waving his tail, to the desolate and Exclusively
+Uninhabited Interior which abuts on
+the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and the
+Promontories of the Larger Equinox. Then the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a>[<a href="images/io-31.png">31</a>]</span>
+Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put
+the stove on its legs and recited the following
+<i>Sloka</i>, which, as you have not heard, I will now
+proceed to relate:&mdash;</div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+Them that takes cakes<br />
+Which the Parsee-man bakes<br />
+Makes dreadful mistakes.<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class='unindent'>And there was a great deal more in that than
+you would think.</div>
+
+<p><i>Because</i>, five weeks later, there was a heat-wave
+in the Red Sea, and everybody took off
+all the clothes they had. The Parsee took off
+his hat; but the Rhinoceros took off his skin
+and carried it over his shoulder as he came down
+to the beach to bathe. In those days it buttoned
+underneath with three buttons and looked like
+a waterproof. He said nothing whatever about
+the Parsee's cake, because he had eaten it all;
+and he never had any manners, then, since,
+or henceforward. He waddled straight into
+the water and blew bubbles through his nose,
+leaving his skin on the beach.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<a href="images/io-32.png"><img src="images/gs10.png" width="500" height="471" alt="This is the picture of the Parsee beginning to eat his cake on the Uninhabited Island in the Red Sea on a very hot day..." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of the Parsee beginning to eat his cake on the
+Uninhabited Island in the Red Sea on a very hot day; and of the
+Rhinoceros coming down from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior,
+which, as you can truthfully see, is all rocky. The Rhinoceros's skin
+is quite smooth, and the three buttons that button it up are underneath,
+so you can't see them. The squiggly things on the Parsee's
+hat are the rays of the sun reflected in more-than-oriental splendour,
+because if I had drawn real rays they would have filled up all the picture.
+The cake has currants in it; and the wheel-thing lying on the sand in
+front belonged to one of Pharaoh's chariots when he tried to cross the
+Red Sea. The Parsee found it, and kept it to play with. The Parsee's
+name was Pestonjee Bomonjee, and the Rhinoceros was called Strorks,
+because he breathed through his mouth instead of his nose. I wouldn't
+ask anything about the cooking-stove if <i>I</i> were you.</div>
+<p>Presently the Parsee came by and found the
+skin, and he smiled one smile that ran all round
+his face two times. Then he danced three
+times round the skin and rubbed his hands.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a>[<a href="images/io-35.png">35</a>]</span>
+Then he went to his camp and filled his hat
+with cake-crumbs, for the Parsee never ate anything
+but cake, and never swept out his camp.
+He took that skin, and he shook that skin, and
+he scrubbed that skin, and he rubbed that skin
+just as full of old, dry, stale, tickly cake-crumbs
+and some burned currants as ever it could
+<i>possibly</i> hold. Then he climbed to the top of
+his palm-tree and waited for the Rhinoceros to
+come out of the water and put it on.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 264px;">
+<a href="images/io-36.png"><img src="images/gs11.png" width="264" height="500" alt="This is the Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee sitting in his palm-tree and watching the Rhinoceros Strorks bathing near the beach of the Altogether Uninhabited Island after Strorks had taken off his skin." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee sitting in his palm-tree and watching
+the Rhinoceros Strorks bathing near the beach of the Altogether
+Uninhabited Island after Strorks had taken off his skin. The Parsee has
+put the cake-crumbs into the skin, and he is smiling to think how they
+will tickle Strorks when Strorks puts it on again. The skin is just under
+the rocks below the palm-tree in a cool place; that is why you can't see
+it. The Parsee is wearing a new more-than-oriental-splendour hat of the
+sort that Parsees wear; and he has a knife in his hand to cut his name on
+palm-trees. The black things on the islands out at sea are bits of ships
+that got wrecked going down the Red Sea; but all the passengers were
+saved and went home.<br />
+
+<p>The black thing in the water close to the shore is not a wreck at all.
+It is Strorks the Rhinoceros bathing without his skin. He was just as
+black underneath his skin as he was outside. I wouldn't ask anything
+about the cooking-stove if <i>I</i> were you.</p></div>
+
+<p>And the Rhinoceros did. He buttoned it up
+with the three buttons, and it tickled like cake-crumbs
+in bed. Then he wanted to scratch,
+but that made it worse; and then he lay down
+on the sands and rolled and rolled and rolled,
+and every time he rolled the cake-crumbs tickled
+him worse and worse and worse. Then he ran
+to the palm-tree and rubbed and rubbed and
+rubbed himself against it. He rubbed so much
+and so hard that he rubbed his skin into a great
+fold over his shoulders, and another fold underneath,
+where the buttons used to be (but he
+rubbed the buttons off), and he rubbed some
+more folds over his legs. And it spoiled his
+temper, but it didn't make the least difference
+to the cake-crumbs. They were inside his skin<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a>[<a href="images/io-39.png">39</a>]</span>
+and they tickled. So he went home, very angry
+indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that
+day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in
+his skin and a very bad temper, all on account
+of the cake-crumbs inside.</p>
+
+<p>But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree,
+wearing his hat, from which the rays of the
+sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour,
+packed up his cooking-stove, and went
+away in the direction of Orotavo, Amygdala,
+the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo, and the
+Marshes of Sonaput.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/gs12.png" width="400" height="191" alt="The Rhinoceros" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a>[<a href="images/io-41.png">41</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">This</span> Uninhabited Island<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Is off Cape Gardafui,</span><br />
+By the Beaches of Socotra<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And the Pink Arabian Sea:</span><br />
+But it's hot&mdash;too hot from Suez<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For the likes of you and me</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Ever to go</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">In a P. and O.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And call on the Cake-Parsee!</span><br />
+<br /></div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;">
+<img src="images/col04.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="How the Leopard Got His Spots" title="" />
+<span class="caption">How the Leopard Got His Spots</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a>[<a href="images/io-43.png">43</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 91px;">
+<img src="images/gs13-i.png" width="91" height="375" alt="I" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br /><b>N</b> the days when everybody started
+fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived
+in a place called the High Veldt.
+'Member it wasn't the Low Veldt,
+or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour
+Veldt, but the 'sclusively bare, hot,
+shiny High Veldt, where there was
+sand and sandy-coloured rock and
+'sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish
+grass. The Giraffe and the Zebra
+and the Eland and the Koodoo and
+the Hartebeest lived there; and
+they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish
+all over; but the Leopard,
+he was the 'sclusivest sandiest-yellowish-brownest
+of them all&mdash;a
+greyish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast,
+and he matched the 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a>[<a href="images/io-44.png">44</a>]</span>
+colour of the High Veldt to
+one hair. This was very bad for the Giraffe
+and the Zebra and the rest of them; for he
+would lie down by a 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish
+stone or clump of grass, and
+when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or
+the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck
+came by he would surprise them out of
+their jumpsome lives. He would indeed!
+And, also, there was an Ethiopian with bows
+and arrows (a 'sclusively greyish-brownish-yellowish
+man he was then), who lived on the
+High Veldt with the Leopard; and the two
+used to hunt together&mdash;the Ethiopian with his
+bows and arrows, and the Leopard 'sclusively
+with his teeth and claws&mdash;till the Giraffe and
+the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga
+and all the rest of them didn't know which
+way to jump, Best Beloved. They didn't
+indeed!</div>
+
+<p>After a long time&mdash;things lived for ever so
+long in those days&mdash;they learned to avoid
+anything that looked like a Leopard or an
+Ethiopian; and bit by bit&mdash;the Giraffe began
+it, because his legs were the longest&mdash;they
+went away from the High Veldt. They scuttled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a>[<a href="images/io-45.png">45</a>]</span>
+for days and days and days till they came to a
+great forest, 'sclusively full of trees and bushes
+and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows,
+and there they hid: and after another long
+time, what with standing half in the shade and
+half out of it, and what with the slippery-slidy
+shadows of the trees falling on them, the Giraffe
+grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy, and
+the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker, with
+little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark
+on a tree trunk; and so, though you could hear
+them and smell them, you could very seldom see
+them, and then only when you knew precisely
+where to look. They had a beautiful time in
+the 'sclusively speckly-spickly shadows of the
+forest, while the Leopard and the Ethiopian ran
+about over the 'sclusively greyish-yellowish-reddish
+High Veldt outside, wondering where all
+their breakfasts and their dinners and their teas
+had gone. At last they were so hungry that
+they ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits, the
+Leopard and the Ethiopian, and then they had
+the Big Tummy-ache, both together; and then
+they met Baviaan&mdash;the dog-headed, barking
+Baboon, who is Quite the Wisest Animal in All
+South Africa.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a>[<a href="images/io-46.png">46</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 261px;">
+<a href="images/io-46.png"><img src="images/gs14.png" width="261" height="500" alt="This is Wise Baviaan, the dog-headed Baboon, Who is Quite the Wisest Animal in All South Africa." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is Wise Baviaan, the dog-headed Baboon, Who is Quite the Wisest
+Animal in All South Africa. I have drawn him from a statue that I made
+up out of my own head, and I have written his name on his belt and on
+his shoulder and on the thing he is sitting on. I have written it in what
+is not called Coptic and Hieroglyphic and Cuneiformic and Bengalic and
+Burmic and Hebric, all because he is so wise. He is not beautiful, but
+he is very wise; and I should like to paint him with paint-box colours,
+but I am not allowed. The umbrella-ish thing about his head is his
+Conventional Mane.</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a>[<a href="images/io-49.png">49</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>Said Leopard to Baviaan (and it was a very
+hot day), 'Where has all the game gone?'</p>
+
+<p>And Baviaan winked. <i>He</i> knew.</p>
+
+<p>Said the Ethiopian to Baviaan, 'Can you
+tell me the present habitat of the aboriginal
+Fauna?' (That meant just the same thing, but
+the Ethiopian always used long words. He was
+a grown-up.)</p>
+
+<p>And Baviaan winked. <i>He</i> knew.</p>
+
+<p>Then said Baviaan, 'The game has gone
+into other spots; and my advice to you, Leopard,
+is to go into other spots as soon as you can.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Ethiopian said, 'That is all very
+fine, but I wish to know whither the aboriginal
+Fauna has migrated.'</p>
+
+<p>Then said Baviaan, 'The aboriginal Fauna
+has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was
+high time for a change; and my advice to you,
+Ethiopian, is to change as soon as you can.'</p>
+
+<p>That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian,
+but they set off to look for the aboriginal Flora,
+and presently, after ever so many days, they
+saw a great, high, tall forest full of tree trunks
+all 'sclusively speckled and sprottled and
+spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and
+hatched and cross-hatched with shadows. (Say<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a>[<a href="images/io-50.png">50</a>]</span>
+that quickly aloud, and you will see how <i>very</i>
+shadowy the forest must have been.)</p>
+
+<p>'What is this,' said the Leopard, 'that is so
+'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of
+light?'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't know,' said the Ethiopian, 'but it
+ought to be the aboriginal Flora. I can smell
+Giraffe, and I can hear Giraffe, but I can't see
+Giraffe.'</p>
+
+<p>'That's curious,' said the Leopard. 'I
+suppose it is because we have just come in out
+of the sunshine. I can smell Zebra, and I can
+hear Zebra, but I can't see Zebra.'</p>
+
+<p>'Wait a bit,' said the Ethiopian. 'It's a
+long time since we've hunted 'em. Perhaps
+we've forgotten what they were like.'</p>
+
+<p>'Fiddle!' said the Leopard. 'I remember
+them perfectly on the High Veldt, especially
+their marrow-bones. Giraffe is about seventeen
+feet high, of a 'sclusively fulvous golden-yellow
+from head to heel; and Zebra is about four
+and a half feet high, of a 'sclusively grey-fawn
+colour from head to heel.'</p>
+
+<p>'Umm,' said the Ethiopian, looking into
+the speckly-spickly shadows of the aboriginal
+Flora-forest. 'Then they ought to show up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></a>[<a href="images/io-51.png">51</a>]</span>
+in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smoke-house.'</p>
+
+<p>But they didn't. The Leopard and the
+Ethiopian hunted all day; and though they
+could smell them and hear them, they never saw
+one of them.</p>
+
+<p>'For goodness' sake,' said the Leopard at
+tea-time, 'let us wait till it gets dark. This
+daylight hunting is a perfect scandal.'</p>
+
+<p>So they waited till dark, and then the
+Leopard heard something breathing sniffily in
+the starlight that fell all stripy through the
+branches, and he jumped at the noise, and it
+smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra, and
+when he knocked it down it kicked like
+Zebra, but he couldn't see it. So he said,
+'Be quiet, O you person without any form.
+I am going to sit on your head till morning,
+because there is something about you that I
+don't understand.'</p>
+
+<p>Presently he heard a grunt and a crash and
+a scramble, and the Ethiopian called out, 'I've
+caught a thing that I can't see. It smells like
+Giraffe, and it kicks like Giraffe, but it hasn't
+any form.'</p>
+
+<p>'Don't you trust it,' said the Leopard.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"></a>[<a href="images/io-52.png">52</a>]</span>
+'Sit on its head till the morning&mdash;same as me.
+They haven't any form&mdash;any of 'em.'</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>So they sat down on them hard till bright
+morning-time, and then Leopard said, 'What
+have you at your end of the table, Brother?'</p>
+
+<p>The Ethiopian scratched his head and said,
+'It ought to be 'sclusively a rich fulvous orange-tawny
+from head to heel, and it ought to be
+Giraffe; but it is covered all over with chestnut
+blotches. What have you at <i>your</i> end of the
+table, Brother?'</p>
+
+<p>And the Leopard scratched his head and said,
+'It ought to be 'sclusively a delicate greyish-fawn,
+and it ought to be Zebra; but it is
+covered all over with black and purple stripes.
+What in the world have you been doing to
+yourself, Zebra? Don't you know that if you
+were on the High Veldt I could see you ten
+miles off? You haven't any form.'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said the Zebra, 'but this isn't the
+High Veldt. Can't you see?'</p>
+
+<p>'I can now,' said the Leopard. 'But I
+couldn't all yesterday. How is it done?'</p>
+
+<p>'Let us up,' said the Zebra, 'and we will
+show you.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53"></a>[<a href="images/io-53.png">53</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>They let the Zebra and the Giraffe get up;
+and Zebra moved away to some little thorn-bushes
+where the sunlight fell all stripy, and
+Giraffe moved off to some tallish trees where
+the shadows fell all blotchy.</p>
+
+<p>'Now watch,' said the Zebra and the
+Giraffe. 'This is the way it's done. One&mdash;two&mdash;three!
+And where's your breakfast?'</p>
+
+<p>Leopard stared, and Ethiopian stared, but all
+they could see were stripy shadows and blotched
+shadows in the forest, but never a sign of Zebra
+and Giraffe. They had just walked off and
+hidden themselves in the shadowy forest.</p>
+
+<p>'Hi! Hi!' said the Ethiopian. 'That's a
+trick worth learning. Take a lesson by it,
+Leopard. You show up in this dark place
+like a bar of soap in a coal-scuttle.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ho! Ho!' said the Leopard. 'Would it
+surprise you very much to know that you show
+up in this dark place like a mustard-plaster on
+a sack of coals?'</p>
+
+<p>Well, calling names won't catch dinner,
+said the Ethiopian. 'The long and the little of
+it is that we don't match our backgrounds. I'm
+going to take Baviaan's advice. He told
+me I ought to change; and as I've nothing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></a>[<a href="images/io-54.png">54</a>]</span>
+to change except my skin I'm going to change
+that.'</p>
+
+<p>'What to?' said the Leopard, tremendously excited.</p>
+
+<p>'To a nice working blackish-brownish
+colour, with a little purple in it, and touches of
+slaty-blue. It will be the very thing for hiding
+in hollows and behind trees.'</p>
+
+<p>So he changed his skin then and there, and
+the Leopard was more excited than ever; he
+had never seen a man change his skin before.</p>
+
+<p>'But what about me?' he said, when the
+Ethiopian had worked his last little finger into
+his fine new black skin.</p>
+
+<p>'You take Baviaan's advice too. He told
+you to go into spots.'</p>
+
+<p>'So I did,' said the Leopard. 'I went into
+other spots as fast as I could. I went into
+this spot with you, and a lot of good it has
+done me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh,' said the Ethiopian, 'Baviaan didn't
+mean spots in South Africa. He meant spots
+on your skin.'</p>
+
+<p>'What's the use of that?' said the Leopard.</p>
+
+<p>'Think of Giraffe,' said the Ethiopian. 'Or
+if you prefer stripes, think of Zebra. They<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></a>[<a href="images/io-55.png">55</a>]</span>
+find their spots and stripes give them perfect
+satisfaction.'</p>
+
+<p>'Umm,' said the Leopard. 'I wouldn't
+look like Zebra&mdash;not for ever so.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, make up your mind,' said the
+Ethiopian, 'because I'd hate to go hunting
+without you, but I must if you insist on looking
+like a sun-flower against a tarred fence.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'll take spots, then,' said the Leopard; 'but
+don't make 'em too vulgar-big. I wouldn't
+look like Giraffe&mdash;not for ever so.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'll make 'em with the tips of my fingers,'
+said the Ethiopian. 'There's plenty of black
+left on my skin still. Stand over!'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Ethiopian put his five fingers close
+together (there was plenty of black left on his
+new skin still) and pressed them all over the
+Leopard, and wherever the five fingers touched
+they left five little black marks, all close together.
+You can see them on any Leopard's
+skin you like, Best Beloved. Sometimes the
+fingers slipped and the marks got a little blurred;
+but if you look closely at any Leopard now you
+will see that there are always five spots&mdash;off
+five fat black finger-tips.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;">
+<a href="images/io-56.png"><img src="images/gs15.png" width="345" height="500" alt="This is the picture of the Leopard and the Ethiopian after they had taken Wise Baviaan&#39;s advice and the Leopard had gone into other spots and the Ethiopian had changed his skin." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of the Leopard and the Ethiopian after they had
+taken Wise Baviaan's advice and the Leopard had gone into other spots
+and the Ethiopian had changed his skin. The Ethiopian was really a negro,
+and so his name was Sambo. The Leopard was called Spots, and he has
+been called Spots ever since. They are out hunting in the spickly-speckly
+forest, and they are looking for Mr. One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast.
+If you look a little you will see Mr. One-Two-Three not
+far away. The Ethiopian has hidden behind a splotchy-blotchy tree
+because it matches his skin, and the Leopard is lying beside a spickly-speckly
+bank of stones because it matches his spots. Mr. One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast
+is standing up eating leaves from a tall
+tree. This is really a puzzle-picture like 'Find the Cat.'</div>
+
+<p>'Now you <i>are</i> a beauty!' said the Ethiopian.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59"></a>[<a href="images/io-59.png">59</a>]</span>
+'You can lie out on the bare ground and look
+like a heap of pebbles. You can lie out on the
+naked rocks and look like a piece of pudding-stone.
+You can lie out on a leafy branch and
+look like sunshine sifting through the leaves;
+and you can lie right across the centre of a path
+and look like nothing in particular. Think of
+that and purr!'</p>
+
+<p>'But if I'm all this,' said the Leopard, 'why
+didn't you go spotty too?'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, plain black's best for a nigger,' said the
+Ethiopian. 'Now come along and we'll see if
+we can't get even with Mr. One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast!'</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>So they went away and lived happily ever
+afterward, Best Beloved. That is all.</p>
+
+<p>Oh, now and then you will hear grown-ups
+say, 'Can the Ethiopian change his skin or
+the Leopard his spots?' I don't think even
+grown-ups would keep on saying such a
+silly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopian
+hadn't done it once&mdash;do you? But they will
+never do it again, Best Beloved. They are
+quite contented as they are.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61"></a>[<a href="images/io-61.png">61</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem2'><br />
+<span class="smcap">I am</span> the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones,<br />
+'Let us melt into the landscape&mdash;just us two by our lones.'<br />
+People have come&mdash;in a carriage&mdash;calling. But Mummy is there.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<br />
+Yes, I can go if you take me&mdash;Nurse says <i>she</i> don't care.<br />
+Let's go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails!<br />
+Let's say things to the bunnies, and watch 'em skitter their tails!<br />
+Let's&mdash;oh, <i>anything</i>, daddy, so long as it's you and me,<br />
+And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!<br />
+Here's your boots (I've brought 'em), and here's your cap and stick,<br />
+And here's your pipe and tobacco. Oh, come along out of it&mdash;quick.<br />
+<br /></div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 315px;">
+<img src="images/col05.jpg" width="315" height="500" alt="The Elephant&#39;s Child" title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Elephant&#39;s Child</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63"></a>[<a href="images/io-63.png">63</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 212px;">
+<img src="images/gs16-i.png" width="212" height="225" alt="I" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><b>N</b> the High and Far-Off
+Times the Elephant, O
+Best Beloved, had no
+trunk. He had only a
+blackish, bulgy nose, as
+big as a boot, that he
+could wriggle about
+from side to side; but
+he couldn't pick up
+things with it. But
+there was one Elephant&mdash;a new Elephant&mdash;an
+Elephant's Child&mdash;who was full of 'satiable
+curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so
+many questions. <i>And</i> he lived in Africa, and
+he filled all Africa with his 'satiable curtiosities.
+He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her
+tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the
+Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64"></a>[<a href="images/io-64.png">64</a>]</span>
+He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made
+his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe,
+spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And
+still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! He
+asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why
+her eyes were red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus,
+spanked him with her broad, broad
+hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon,
+why melons tasted just so, and his hairy uncle,
+the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy
+paw. And <i>still</i> he was full of 'satiable curtiosity!
+He asked questions about everything that he
+saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched, and
+all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. And
+still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity!</div>
+
+<p>One fine morning in the middle of the
+Precession of the Equinoxes this 'satiable
+Elephant's Child asked a new fine question
+that he had never asked before. He asked,
+'What does the Crocodile have for dinner?'
+Then everybody said, 'Hush!' in a loud and
+dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately
+and directly, without stopping, for a long time.</p>
+
+<p>By and by, when that was finished, he came
+upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a
+wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, 'My father<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65"></a>[<a href="images/io-65.png">65</a>]</span>
+has spanked me, and my mother has spanked
+me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me
+for my 'satiable curtiosity; and <i>still</i> I want to
+know what the Crocodile has for dinner!'</p>
+
+<p>Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful
+cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green,
+greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees,
+and find out.'</p>
+
+<p>That very next morning, when there was
+nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession
+had preceded according to precedent, this
+'satiable Elephant's Child took a hundred pounds
+of bananas (the little short red kind), and a
+hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple
+kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly
+kind), and said to all his dear families, 'Good-bye.
+I am going to the great grey-green, greasy
+Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to
+find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.'
+And they all spanked him once more for luck,
+though he asked them most politely to stop.</p>
+
+<p>Then he went away, a little warm, but not
+at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing
+the rind about, because he could not pick it up.</p>
+
+<p>He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley,
+and from Kimberley to Khama's Country, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66"></a>[<a href="images/io-66.png">66</a>]</span>
+from Khama's Country he went east by north,
+eating melons all the time, till at last he came
+to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy
+Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees,
+precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said.</p>
+
+<p>Now you must know and understand, O
+Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day,
+and hour, and minute, this 'satiable Elephant's
+Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not
+know what one was like. It was all his 'satiable
+curtiosity.</p>
+
+<p>The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+curled round a
+rock.</p>
+
+<p>''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most
+politely, 'but have you seen such a thing as a
+Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Have</i> I seen a Crocodile?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake,
+in a voice of
+dretful scorn. 'What will you ask me next?'</p>
+
+<p>''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but
+could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner?'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+uncoiled himself very quickly from the
+rock, and spanked the Elephant's Child with his
+scalesome, flailsome tail.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67"></a>[<a href="images/io-67.png">67</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'That is odd,' said the Elephant's Child,
+'because my father and my mother, and my
+uncle and my aunt, not to mention my other
+aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my other uncle, the
+Baboon, have all spanked me for my 'satiable
+curtiosity&mdash;and I suppose this is the same thing.'</p>
+
+<p>So he said good-bye very politely to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake,
+and helped to
+coil him up on the rock again, and went on, a
+little warm, but not at all astonished, eating
+melons, and throwing the rind about, because
+he could not pick it up, till he trod on what
+he thought was a log of wood at the very edge
+of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,
+all set about with fever-trees.</p>
+
+<p>But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved,
+and the Crocodile winked one eye&mdash;like this!</p>
+
+<p>''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most
+politely, 'but do you happen to have seen a
+Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Crocodile winked the other eye,
+and lifted half his tail out of the mud; and the
+Elephant's Child stepped back most politely,
+because he did not wish to be spanked again.</p>
+
+<p>'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile.
+'Why do you ask such things?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68"></a>[<a href="images/io-68.png">68</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most
+politely, 'but my father has spanked me, my
+mother has spanked me, not to mention my tall
+aunt, the Ostrich, and my tall uncle, the
+Giraffe, who can kick ever so hard, as well as
+my broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my
+hairy uncle, the Baboon, <i>and</i> including the
+Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, with the
+scalesome, flailsome tail, just up the bank, who
+spanks harder than any of them; and <i>so</i>, if it's
+quite all the same to you, I don't want to be
+spanked any more.'</p>
+
+<p>'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile,
+'for I am the Crocodile,' and he wept
+crocodile-tears to show it was quite true.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Elephant's Child grew all breathless,
+and panted, and kneeled down on the bank
+and said, 'You are the very person I have
+been looking for all these long days. Will you
+please tell me what you have for dinner?'</p>
+
+<p>'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile,
+'and I'll whisper.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Elephant's Child put his head
+down close to the Crocodile's musky, tusky
+mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his
+little nose, which up to that very week, day,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69"></a>[<a href="images/io-69.png">69</a>]</span>
+hour, and minute, had been no bigger than a
+boot, though much more useful.</p>
+
+<p>'I think,' said the Crocodile&mdash;and he said it
+between his teeth, like this&mdash;'I think to-day I
+will begin with Elephant's Child!'</p>
+
+<p>At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant's Child
+was much annoyed, and he said, speaking through
+his nose, like this, 'Led go! You are hurtig be!'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+scuffled down from the bank and said, 'My
+young friend, if you do not now, immediately
+and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is
+my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-pattern
+leather ulster' (and by this he meant the
+Crocodile) 'will jerk you into yonder limpid
+stream before you can say Jack Robinson.'</p>
+
+<p>This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes
+always talk.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Elephant's Child sat back on his
+little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and
+pulled, and his nose began to stretch. And the
+Crocodile floundered into the water, making it
+all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and <i>he</i>
+pulled, and pulled, and pulled.</p>
+
+<p>And the Elephant's Child's nose kept on
+stretching; and the Elephant's Child spread all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70"></a>[<a href="images/io-70.png">70</a>]</span>
+his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and
+pulled, and his nose kept on stretching; and
+the Crocodile threshed his tail like an oar, and
+<i>he</i> pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and at each
+pull the Elephant's Child's nose grew longer
+and longer&mdash;and it hurt him hijjus!</p>
+
+<p>Then the Elephant's Child felt his legs slipping,
+and he said through his nose, which was now
+nearly five feet long, 'This is too butch for be!'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+came down from the bank, and knotted himself
+in a double-clove-hitch round the Elephant's
+Child's hind legs, and said, 'Rash and inexperienced
+traveller, we will now seriously devote
+ourselves to a little high tension, because if we
+do not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling
+man-of-war with the armour-plated
+upper deck' (and by this, O Best Beloved, he
+meant the Crocodile), 'will permanently vitiate
+your future career.'</p>
+
+<p>That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes
+always talk.</p>
+
+<p>So he pulled, and the Elephant's Child
+pulled, and the Crocodile pulled; but the
+Elephant's Child and the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+pulled hardest; and at last the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71"></a>[<a href="images/io-71.png">71</a>]</span>
+Crocodile let go of the Elephant's Child's nose
+with a plop that you could hear all up and
+down the Limpopo.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Elephant's Child sat down most
+hard and sudden; but first he was careful to say
+'Thank you' to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake;
+and next he was kind to his poor pulled
+nose, and wrapped it all up in cool banana
+leaves, and hung it in the great grey-green,
+greasy Limpopo to cool.</p>
+
+<p>'What are you doing that for?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.</p>
+
+<p>''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but
+my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting
+for it to shrink.'</p>
+
+<p>'Then you will have to wait a long time,'
+said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+'Some people do not know what is good for
+them.'</p>
+
+<p>The Elephant's Child sat there for three
+days waiting for his nose to shrink. But it
+never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made
+him squint. For, O Best Beloved, you will
+see and understand that the Crocodile had
+pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as
+all Elephants have to-day.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72"></a>[<a href="images/io-72.png">72</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/gs17.png" width="500" height="413" alt="This is the Elephant&#39;s Child having his nose pulled by the Crocodile." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the Elephant's Child having his nose pulled by the Crocodile.
+He is much surprised and astonished and hurt, and he is talking through
+his nose and saying, 'Led go! You are hurtig be!' He is pulling very
+hard, and so is the Crocodile; but the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake is
+hurrying through the water to help the Elephant's Child. All that black
+stuff is the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (but I am
+not allowed to paint these pictures), and the bottly-tree with the twisty
+roots and the eight leaves is one of the fever-trees that grow there.<br />
+
+<p>Underneath the truly picture are shadows of African animals walking
+into an African ark. There are two lions, two ostriches, two oxen, two
+camels, two sheep, and two other things that look like rats, but I think
+they are rock-rabbits. They don't mean anything. I put them in
+because I thought they looked pretty. They would look very fine if I
+were allowed to paint them.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75"></a>[<a href="images/io-75.png">75</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>At the end of the third day a fly came and
+stung him on the shoulder, and before he knew
+what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and
+hit that fly dead with the end of it.</p>
+
+<p>''Vantage number one!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+'You couldn't
+have done that with a mere-smear nose. Try
+and eat a little now.'</p>
+
+<p>Before he thought what he was doing the
+Elephant's Child put out his trunk and plucked
+a large bundle of grass, dusted it clean against
+his fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth.</p>
+
+<p>''Vantage number two!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+'You couldn't
+have done that with a mear-smear nose. Don't
+you think the sun is very hot here?'</p>
+
+<p>'It is,' said the Elephant's Child, and before
+he thought what he was doing he schlooped up
+a schloop of mud from the banks of the great
+grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on
+his head, where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy
+mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.</p>
+
+<p>''Vantage number three!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+'You couldn't
+have done that with a mere-smear nose. Now
+how do you feel about being spanked again?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76"></a>[<a href="images/io-76.png">76</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but
+I should not like it at all.'</p>
+
+<p>'How would you like to spank somebody?'
+said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.</p>
+
+<p>'I should like it very much indeed,' said the
+Elephant's Child.</p>
+
+<p>'Well,' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake,
+'you will find that new nose of yours
+very useful to spank people with.'</p>
+
+<p>'Thank you,' said the Elephant's Child, 'I'll
+remember that; and now I think I'll go home
+to all my dear families and try.'</p>
+
+<p>So the Elephant's Child went home across
+Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. When
+he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down
+from a tree, instead of waiting for it to fall as
+he used to do. When he wanted grass he
+plucked grass up from the ground, instead of
+going on his knees as he used to do. When
+the flies bit him he broke off the branch
+of a tree and used it as a fly-whisk; and
+he made himself a new, cool, slushy-squshy
+mud-cap whenever the sun was hot. When
+he felt lonely walking through Africa he
+sang to himself down his trunk, and the
+noise was louder than several brass bands.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77"></a>[<a href="images/io-77.png">77</a>]</span>
+He went especially out of his way to find a
+broad Hippopotamus (she was no relation of
+his), and he spanked her very hard, to make
+sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+had spoken the truth about his new trunk.
+The rest of the time he picked up the melon
+rinds that he had dropped on his way to the
+Limpopo&mdash;for he was a Tidy Pachyderm.</p>
+
+<p>One dark evening he came back to all his
+dear families, and he coiled up his trunk and
+said, 'How do you do?' They were very glad
+to see him, and immediately said, 'Come here
+and be spanked for your 'satiable curtiosity.'</p>
+
+<p>'Pooh,' said the Elephant's Child. 'I don't
+think you peoples know anything about spanking;
+but <i>I</i> do, and I'll show you.'</p>
+
+<p>Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked
+two of his dear brothers head over heels.</p>
+
+<p>'O Bananas!' said they, 'where did you
+learn that trick, and what have you done to
+your nose?'</p>
+
+<p>'I got a new one from the Crocodile on the
+banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo
+River,' said the Elephant's Child. 'I asked
+him what he had for dinner, and he gave me
+this to keep.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78"></a>[<a href="images/io-78.png">78</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;">
+<img src="images/gs18.png" width="351" height="500" alt="This is just a picture of the Elephant&#39;s Child going to pull bananas off a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long trunk." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is just a picture of the Elephant's Child going to pull bananas
+off a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long trunk. I don't think
+it is a very nice picture; but I couldn't make it any better, because
+elephants and bananas are hard to draw. The streaky things behind the
+Elephant's Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa.
+The Elephant's Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the mud that
+he found there. I think it would look better if you painted the banana-tree
+green and the Elephant's Child red.
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81"></a>[<a href="images/io-81.png">81</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'It looks very ugly,' said his hairy uncle,
+the Baboon.</p>
+
+<p>'It does,' said the Elephant's Child. 'But
+it's very useful,' and he picked up his hairy
+uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove
+him into a hornet's nest.</p>
+
+<p>Then that bad Elephant's Child spanked all
+his dear families for a long time, till they were
+very warm and greatly astonished. He pulled
+out his tall Ostrich aunt's tail-feathers; and he
+caught his tall uncle, the Giraffe, by the hind-leg,
+and dragged him through a thorn-bush;
+and he shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus,
+and blew bubbles into her ear when
+she was sleeping in the water after meals; but
+he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird.</p>
+
+<p>At last things grew so exciting that his dear
+families went off one by one in a hurry to the
+banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo
+River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow
+new noses from the Crocodile. When they came
+back nobody spanked anybody any more; and
+ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the
+Elephants you will ever see, besides all those
+that you won't, have trunks precisely like the
+trunk of the 'satiable Elephant's Child.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83"></a>[<a href="images/io-83.png">83</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">I keep</span> six honest serving-men;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(They taught me all I knew)</span><br />
+Their names are What and Where and When<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And How and Where and Who.</span><br />
+I send them over land and sea,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I send them east and west;</span><br />
+But after they have worked for me,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>I</i> give them all a rest.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>I</i> let them rest from nine till five.</span><br />
+For I am busy then,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,</span><br />
+For they are hungry men:<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But different folk have different views;</span><br />
+I know a person small&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She keeps ten million serving-men,</span><br />
+Who get no rest at all!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs,</span><br />
+From the second she opens her eyes&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">One million Hows, two million Wheres,</span><br />
+And seven million Whys!<br />
+<br /></div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;">
+<img src="images/col06.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo" title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85"></a>[<a href="images/io-85.png">85</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 203px;">
+<img src="images/gs19-not.png" width="203" height="200" alt="NOT" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'>&nbsp;always was the Kangaroo
+as now we do
+behold him, but a
+Different Animal with
+four short legs. He
+was grey and he was
+woolly, and his pride
+was inordinate: he
+danced on an outcrop
+in the middle of Australia,
+and he went to the Little God Nqa.</div>
+
+<p>He went to Nqa at six before breakfast,
+saying, 'Make me different from all other
+animals by five this afternoon.'</p>
+
+<p>Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sand-flat
+and shouted, 'Go away!'</p>
+
+<p>He was grey and he was woolly, and his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86"></a>[<a href="images/io-86.png">86</a>]</span>
+pride was inordinate: he danced on a rock-ledge
+in the middle of Australia, and he went
+to the Middle God Nquing.</p>
+
+<p>He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast,
+saying, 'Make me different from all other
+animals; make me, also, wonderfully popular
+by five this afternoon.'</p>
+
+<p>Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the
+spinifex and shouted, 'Go away!'</p>
+
+<p>He was grey and he was woolly, and his
+pride was inordinate: he danced on a sandbank
+in the middle of Australia, and he went to the
+Big God Nqong.</p>
+
+<p>He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time,
+saying, 'Make me different from all other
+animals; make me popular and wonderfully run
+after by five this afternoon.'</p>
+
+<p>Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the
+salt-pan and shouted, 'Yes, I will!'</p>
+
+<p>Nqong called Dingo&mdash;Yellow-Dog Dingo&mdash;always
+hungry, dusty in the sunshine, and
+showed him Kangaroo. Nqong said, 'Dingo!
+Wake up, Dingo! Do you see that gentleman
+dancing on an ashpit? He wants to be popular
+and very truly run after. Dingo, make him
+so!'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87"></a>[<a href="images/io-87.png">87</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>Up jumped Dingo&mdash;Yellow-Dog Dingo&mdash;and
+said, 'What, <i>that</i> cat-rabbit?'</p>
+
+<p>Off ran Dingo&mdash;Yellow-Dog Dingo&mdash;always
+hungry, grinning like a coal-scuttle,&mdash;ran
+after Kangaroo.</p>
+
+<p>Off went the proud Kangaroo on his four
+little legs like a bunny.</p>
+
+<p>This, O Beloved of mine, ends the first
+part of the tale!</p>
+
+<p>He ran through the desert; he ran through
+the mountains; he ran through the salt-pans;
+he ran through the reed-beds; he ran through
+the blue gums; he ran through the spinifex;
+he ran till his front legs ached.</p>
+
+<p>He had to!</p>
+
+<p>Still ran Dingo&mdash;Yellow-Dog Dingo&mdash;always
+hungry, grinning like a rat-trap, never
+getting nearer, never getting farther,&mdash;ran after
+Kangaroo.</p>
+
+<p>He had to!</p>
+
+<p>Still ran Kangaroo&mdash;Old Man Kangaroo.
+He ran through the ti-trees; he ran through
+the mulga; he ran through the long grass; he
+ran through the short grass; he ran through
+the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; he ran
+till his hind legs ached.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88"></a>[<a href="images/io-88.png">88</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 428px;">
+<img src="images/gs20.png" width="428" height="500" alt="This is a picture of Old Man Kangaroo when he was the Different Animal with four short legs." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is a picture of Old Man Kangaroo when he was the Different
+Animal with four short legs. I have drawn him grey and woolly, and
+you can see that he is very proud because he has a wreath of flowers in his
+hair. He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in the
+middle of Australia at six o'clock before breakfast. You can see that it is
+six o'clock, because the sun is just getting up. The thing with the ears
+and the open mouth is Little God Nqa. Nqa is very much surprised,
+because he has never seen a Kangaroo dance like that before. Little God
+Nqa is just saying, 'Go away,' but the Kangaroo is so busy dancing
+that he has not heard him yet.<br />
+
+<p>The Kangaroo hasn't any real name except Boomer. He lost it
+because he was so proud.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91"></a>[<a href="images/io-91.png">91</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>He had to!</p>
+
+<p>Still ran Dingo&mdash;Yellow-Dog Dingo&mdash;hungrier
+and hungrier, grinning like a horse-collar,
+never getting nearer, never getting
+farther; and they came to the Wollgong River.</p>
+
+<p>Now, there wasn't any bridge, and there
+wasn't any ferry-boat, and Kangaroo didn't
+know how to get over; so he stood on his legs
+and hopped.</p>
+
+<p>He had to!</p>
+
+<p>He hopped through the Flinders; he hopped
+through the Cinders; he hopped through the
+deserts in the middle of Australia. He hopped
+like a Kangaroo.</p>
+
+<p>First he hopped one yard; then he hopped
+three yards; then he hopped five yards; his
+legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer.
+He hadn't any time for rest or refreshment, and
+he wanted them very much.</p>
+
+<p>Still ran Dingo&mdash;Yellow-Dog Dingo&mdash;very
+much bewildered, very much hungry, and
+wondering what in the world or out of it made
+Old Man Kangaroo hop.</p>
+
+<p>For he hopped like a cricket; like a pea in
+a saucepan; or a new rubber ball on a nursery
+floor.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92"></a>[<a href="images/io-92.png">92</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 475px;">
+<img src="images/gs21.png" width="475" height="500" alt="This is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at five in the afternoon, when he had got his beautiful hind legs just as Big God Nqong had promised." title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at five in the afternoon, when
+he had got his beautiful hind legs just as Big God Nqong had promised.
+You can see that it is five o'clock, because Big God Nqong's pet tame
+clock says so. That is Nqong, in his bath, sticking his feet out. Old
+Man Kangaroo is being rude to Yellow-Dog Dingo. Yellow-Dog
+Dingo has been trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia. You can
+see the marks of Kangaroo's big new feet running ever so far back over
+the bare hills. Yellow-Dog Dingo is drawn black, because I am not
+allowed to paint these pictures with real colours out of the paint-box;
+and besides, Yellow-Dog Dingo got dreadfully black and dusty after
+running through the Flinders and the Cinders.<br />
+
+<p>I don't know the names of the flowers growing round Nqong's bath.
+The two little squatty things out in the desert are the other two gods
+that Old Man Kangaroo spoke to early in the morning. That thing with
+the letters on it is Old Man Kangaroo's pouch. He had to have a pouch
+just as he had to have legs.</p></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95"></a>[<a href="images/io-95.png">95</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>He had to!</p>
+
+<p>He tucked up his front legs; he hopped
+on his hind legs; he stuck out his tail for a
+balance-weight behind him; and he hopped
+through the Darling Downs.</p>
+
+<p>He had to!</p>
+
+<p>Still ran Dingo&mdash;Tired-Dog Dingo&mdash;hungrier
+and hungrier, very much bewildered,
+and wondering when in the world or out of it
+would Old Man Kangaroo stop.</p>
+
+<p>Then came Nqong from his bath in the salt-pans,
+and said, 'It's five o'clock.'</p>
+
+<p>Down sat Dingo&mdash;Poor Dog Dingo&mdash;always
+hungry, dusky in the sunshine; hung out his
+tongue and howled.</p>
+
+<p>Down sat Kangaroo&mdash;Old Man Kangaroo&mdash;stuck
+out his tail like a milking-stool behind
+him, and said, 'Thank goodness <i>that's</i>
+finished!'</p>
+
+<p>Then said Nqong, who is always a gentleman,
+'Why aren't you grateful to Yellow-Dog
+Dingo? Why don't you thank him for all he
+has done for you?'</p>
+
+<p>Then said Kangaroo&mdash;Tired Old Kangaroo&mdash;'He's
+chased me out of the homes of my
+childhood; he's chased me out of my regular<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96"></a>[<a href="images/io-96.png">96</a>]</span>
+meal-times; he's altered my shape so I'll never
+get it back; and he's played Old Scratch with
+my legs.'</p>
+
+<p>Then said Nqong, 'Perhaps I'm mistaken,
+but didn't you ask me to make you different
+from all other animals, as well as to make you
+very truly sought after? And now it is five
+o'clock.'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said Kangaroo. 'I wish that I
+hadn't. I thought you would do it by charms
+and incantations, but this is a practical
+joke.'</p>
+
+<p>'Joke!' said Nqong from his bath in the
+blue gums. 'Say that again and I'll whistle up
+Dingo and run your hind legs off.'</p>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Kangaroo. 'I must apologise.
+Legs are legs, and you needn't alter 'em so far
+as I am concerned. I only meant to explain
+to Your Lordliness that I've had nothing
+to eat since morning, and I'm very empty
+indeed.'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said Dingo&mdash;Yellow-Dog Dingo,&mdash;'I
+am just in the same situation. I've made
+him different from all other animals; but what
+may I have for my tea?'</p>
+
+<p>Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97"></a>[<a href="images/io-97.png">97</a>]</span>
+'Come and ask me about it to-morrow,
+because I'm going to wash.'</p>
+
+<p>So they were left in the middle of Australia,
+Old Man Kangaroo and Yellow-Dog Dingo,
+and each said, 'That's <i>your</i> fault.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99"></a>[<a href="images/io-99.png">99</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class='poem'><br />
+<span class="smcap">This</span> is the mouth-filling song<br />
+Of the race that was run by a Boomer,<br />
+Run in a single burst&mdash;only event of its kind&mdash;<br />
+Started by big God Nqong from Warrigaborrigarooma,<br />
+Old Man Kangaroo first: Yellow-Dog Dingo behind.<br />
+<br />
+Kangaroo bounded away,<br />
+His back-legs working like pistons&mdash;<br />
+Bounded from morning till dark,<br />
+Twenty-five feet to a bound.<br />
+Yellow-Dog Dingo lay<br />
+Like a yellow cloud in the distance&mdash;<br />
+Much too busy to bark.<br />
+My! but they covered the ground!<br />
+<br />
+Nobody knows where they went,<br />
+Or followed the track that they flew in,<br />
+For that Continent<br />
+Hadn't been given a name.<br />
+They ran thirty degrees,<br />
+From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin<br />
+(Look at the Atlas, please),<br />
+And they ran back as they came.<br />
+<br />
+S'posing you could trot<br />
+From Adelaide to the Pacific,<br />
+For an afternoon's run&mdash;<br />
+Half what these gentlemen did&mdash;<br />
+You would feel rather hot,<br />
+But your legs would develop terrific&mdash;<br />
+Yes, my importunate son,<br />
+You'd be a Marvellous Kid!<br /><br />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;">
+<img src="images/col07.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="The Beginning of the Armadillos" title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Beginning of the Armadillos</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101"></a>[<a href="images/io-101.png">101</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 230px;">
+<img src="images/gs22-t.png" width="230" height="250" alt="T" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><b>HIS</b>, 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 <i>that</i>
+was all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?</div>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102"></a>[<a href="images/io-102.png">102</a>]</span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>One beautiful night on the banks of the
+turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly
+Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise
+sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree. They
+could not run away, and so Stickly-Prickly
+curled himself up into a ball, because he was a
+Hedgehog, and Slow-Solid Tortoise drew in his
+head and feet into his shell as far as they would
+go, because he was a Tortoise; and so <i>that</i> was
+all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?</p>
+
+<p>'Now attend to me,' said Painted Jaguar,
+'because this is very important. My mother
+said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103"></a>[<a href="images/io-103.png">103</a>]</span>
+him into the water and then he will uncoil,
+and when I meet a Tortoise I am to scoop him
+out of his shell with my paw. Now which of
+you is Hedgehog and which is Tortoise? because
+to save my spots, I can't tell.'</p>
+
+<p>'Are you sure of what your Mummy told
+you?' said Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog. 'Are
+you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when
+you uncoil a Tortoise you must shell him out
+of the water with a scoop, and when you paw a
+Hedgehog you must drop him on the shell.'</p>
+
+<p>'Are you sure of what your Mummy told
+you?' said Slow-and-Solid Tortoise. 'Are you
+quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you
+water a Hedgehog you must drop him into your
+paw, and when you meet a Tortoise you must
+shell him till he uncoils.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't think it was at all like that,' said
+Painted Jaguar, but he felt a little puzzled;
+'but, please, say it again more distinctly.'</p>
+
+<p>'When you scoop water with your paw you
+uncoil it with a Hedgehog,' said Stickly-Prickly.
+'Remember that, because it's important.'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>But</i>,' said the Tortoise, 'when you paw your
+meat you drop it into a Tortoise with a scoop.
+Why can't you understand?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104"></a>[<a href="images/io-104.png">104</a>]</span></p>
+<div class='tnote'><div class='center'>Transcriber's Note: Click the map for a
+larger version.</div></div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 399px;">
+<a href="images/map-big.jpg"><img src="images/map.jpg" width="399" height="600" alt="This is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in Red and Black." title="" />
+</a></div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in Red and Black.
+It hasn't anything to do with the story except that there are two Armadillos
+in it&mdash;up by the top. The inciting part are the adventures that
+happened to the men who went along the road marked in red. I meant to
+draw Armadillos when I began the map, and I meant to draw manatees
+and spider-tailed monkeys and big snakes and lots of Jaguars, but it was
+more inciting to do the map and the venturesome adventures in red. You
+begin at the bottom left-hand corner and follow the little arrows all
+about, and then you come quite round again to where the adventuresome
+people went home in a ship called the <i>Royal Tiger</i>. This is a most
+adventuresome 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 or
+a boat.<br /><br /></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107"></a>[<a href="images/io-107.png">107</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'You are making my spots ache,' said Painted
+Jaguar; 'and besides, I didn't want your advice
+at all. I only wanted to know which of you is
+Hedgehog and which is Tortoise.'</p>
+
+<p>'I shan't tell you,' said Stickly-Prickly,
+'but you can scoop me out of my shell if you
+like.'</p>
+
+<p>'Aha!' said Painted Jaguar. 'Now I know
+you're Tortoise. You thought I wouldn't!
+Now I will.' Painted Jaguar darted out his
+paddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curled himself
+up, and of course Jaguar's paddy-paw was just
+filled with prickles. Worse than that, he
+knocked Stickly-Prickly away and away into the
+woods and the bushes, where it was too dark to
+find him. Then he put his paddy-paw into his
+mouth, and of course the prickles hurt him
+worse than ever. As soon as he could speak he
+said, 'Now I know he isn't Tortoise at all.
+But'&mdash;and then he scratched his head with
+his un-prickly paw&mdash;'how do I know that this
+other is Tortoise?'</p>
+
+<p>'But I <i>am</i> Tortoise,' said Slow-and-Solid.
+'Your mother was quite right. She said that
+you were to scoop me out of my shell with your
+paw. Begin.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108"></a>[<a href="images/io-108.png">108</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'You didn't say she said that a minute ago,'
+said Painted Jaguar, sucking the prickles out of
+his paddy-paw. 'You said she said something
+quite different.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, suppose you say that I said that she
+said something quite different, I don't see that it
+makes any difference; because if she said what
+you said I said she said, it's just the same as if I
+said what she said she said. On the other hand,
+if you think she said that you were to uncoil me
+with a scoop, instead of pawing me into drops
+with a shell, I can't help that, can I?'</p>
+
+<p>'But you said you wanted to be scooped out
+of your shell with my paw,' said Painted Jaguar.</p>
+
+<p>'If you'll think again you'll find that I didn't
+say anything of the kind. I said that your
+mother said that you were to scoop me out of
+my shell,' said Slow-and-Solid.</p>
+
+<p>'What will happen if I do?' said the Jaguar
+most sniffily and most cautious.</p>
+
+<p>'I don't know, because I've never been
+scooped out of my shell before; but I tell you
+truly, if you want to see me swim away you've
+only got to drop me into the water.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't believe it,' said Painted Jaguar.
+'You've mixed up all the things my mother<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109"></a>[<a href="images/io-109.png">109</a>]</span>
+told me to do with the things that you asked
+me whether I was sure that she didn't say, till
+I don't know whether I'm on my head or my
+painted tail; and now you come and tell me something
+I <i>can</i> understand, and it makes me more
+mixy than before. My mother told me that I
+was to drop one of you two into the water, and
+as you seem so anxious to be dropped I think
+you don't want to be dropped. So jump into
+the turbid Amazon and be quick about it.'</p>
+
+<p>'I warn you that your Mummy won't be
+pleased. Don't tell her I didn't tell you,' said
+Slow-Solid.</p>
+
+<p>'If you say another word about what my
+mother said&mdash;' the Jaguar answered, but he had
+not finished the sentence before Slow-and-Solid
+quietly dived into the turbid Amazon, swam
+under water for a long way, and came out on
+the bank where Stickly-Prickly was waiting
+for him.</p>
+
+<p>'That was a very narrow escape,' said Stickly-Prickly.
+'I don't like Painted Jaguar. What
+did you tell him that you were?'</p>
+
+<p>'I told him truthfully that I was a truthful
+Tortoise, but he wouldn't believe it, and he
+made me jump into the river to see if I was, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110"></a>[<a href="images/io-110.png">110</a>]</span>
+I was, and he is surprised. Now he's gone to
+tell his Mummy. Listen to him!'</p>
+
+<p>They could hear Painted Jaguar roaring up
+and down among the trees and the bushes
+by the side of the turbid Amazon, till his
+Mummy came.</p>
+
+<p>'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many
+times, graciously waving her tail, 'what have
+you been doing that you shouldn't have done?'</p>
+
+<p>'I tried to scoop something that said it wanted
+to be scooped out of its shell with my paw, and
+my paw is full of per-ickles,' said Painted Jaguar.</p>
+
+<p>'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many
+times, graciously waving her tail, 'by the
+prickles in your paddy-paw I see that that must
+have been a Hedgehog. You should have
+dropped him into the water.'</p>
+
+<p>'I did that to the other thing; and he said
+he was a Tortoise, and I didn't believe him, and
+it was quite true, and he has dived under the
+turbid Amazon, and he won't come up again,
+and I haven't anything at all to eat, and I think we
+had better find lodgings somewhere else. They are
+too clever on the turbid Amazon for poor me!'</p>
+
+<p>'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many
+times, graciously waving her tail, 'now attend<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111"></a>[<a href="images/io-111.png">111</a>]</span>
+to me and remember what I say. A Hedgehog
+curls himself up into a ball and his prickles stick
+out every which way at once. By this you may
+know the Hedgehog.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't like this old lady one little bit,' said
+Stickly-Prickly, under the shadow of a large leaf.
+'I wonder what else she knows?'</p>
+
+<p>'A Tortoise can't curl himself up,' Mother
+Jaguar went on, ever so many times, graciously
+waving her tail. 'He only draws his head and
+legs into his shell. By this you may know the
+Tortoise.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't like this old lady at all&mdash;at all,' said
+Slow-and-Solid Tortoise. 'Even Painted
+Jaguar can't forget those directions. It's a great
+pity that you can't swim, Stickly-Prickly.'</p>
+
+<p>'Don't talk to me,' said Stickly-Prickly.
+'Just think how much better it would be if you
+could curl up. This <i>is</i> a mess! Listen to
+Painted Jaguar.'</p>
+
+<p>Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of
+the turbid Amazon sucking prickles out of his
+paws and saying to himself&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+'Can't curl, but can swim&mdash;<br />
+Slow-Solid, that's him!<br />
+Curls up, but can't swim&mdash;<br />
+Stickly-Prickly, that's him!'<br />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112"></a>[<a href="images/io-112.png">112</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'He'll never forget that this month of Sundays,'
+said Stickly-Prickly. 'Hold up my chin,
+Slow-and-Solid. I'm going to try to learn to
+swim. It may be useful.'</p>
+
+<p>'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid; and he
+held up Stickly-Prickly's chin, while Stickly-Prickly
+kicked in the waters of the turbid
+Amazon.</p>
+
+<p>'You'll make a fine swimmer yet,' said Slow-and-Solid.
+'Now, if you can unlace my back-plates
+a little, I'll see what I can do towards
+curling up. It may be useful.'</p>
+
+<p>Stickly-Prickly helped to unlace Tortoise's
+back-plates, so that by twisting and straining
+Slow-and-Solid actually managed to curl up a
+tiddy wee bit.</p>
+
+<p>'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly; 'but I
+shouldn't do any more just now. It's making
+you black in the face. Kindly lead me into the
+water once again and I'll practise that side-stroke
+which you say is so easy.' And so Stickly-Prickly
+practised, and Slow-Solid swam alongside.</p>
+
+<p>'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid. 'A little
+more practice will make you a regular whale.
+Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back
+and front plates two holes more, I'll try that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113"></a>[<a href="images/io-113.png">113</a>]</span>
+fascinating bend that you say is so easy. Won't
+Painted Jaguar be surprised!'</p>
+
+<p>'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly, all wet from
+the turbid Amazon. 'I declare, I shouldn't
+know you from one of my own family. Two
+holes, I think, you said? A little more expression,
+please, and don't grunt quite so much, or
+Painted Jaguar may hear us. When you've
+finished, I want to try that long dive which
+you say is so easy. Won't Painted Jaguar be
+surprised!'</p>
+
+<p>And so Stickly-Prickly dived, and Slow-and-Solid
+dived alongside.</p>
+
+<p>'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid. 'A leetle
+more attention to holding your breath and you
+will be able to keep house at the bottom of the
+turbid Amazon. Now I'll try that exercise of
+wrapping my hind legs round my ears which
+you say is so peculiarly comfortable. Won't
+Painted Jaguar be surprised!'</p>
+
+<p>'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly. 'But it's
+straining your back-plates a little. They are all
+overlapping now, instead of lying side by side.'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, that's the result of exercise,' said Slow-and-Solid.
+'I've noticed that your prickles
+seem to be melting into one another, and that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114"></a>[<a href="images/io-114.png">114</a>]</span>
+you're growing to look rather more like a pine-cone,
+and less like a chestnut-burr, than you
+used to.'</p>
+
+<p>'Am I?' said Stickly-Prickly. 'That comes
+from my soaking in the water. Oh, won't
+Painted Jaguar be surprised!'</p>
+
+<p>They went on with their exercises, each
+helping the other, till morning came; and when
+the sun was high they rested and dried themselves.
+Then they saw that they were both of
+them quite different from what they had been.</p>
+
+<p>'Stickly-Prickly,' said Tortoise after breakfast,
+'I am not what I was yesterday; but I
+think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar.'</p>
+
+<p>'That was the very thing I was thinking just
+now,' said Stickly-Prickly. 'I think scales are
+a tremendous improvement on prickles&mdash;to say
+nothing of being able to swim. Oh, <i>won't</i>
+Painted Jaguar be surprised! Let's go and
+find him.'</p>
+
+<p>By and by they found Painted Jaguar, still
+nursing his paddy-paw that had been hurt the
+night before. He was so astonished that he fell
+three times backward over his own painted tail
+without stopping.</p>
+
+<p>'Good morning!' said Stickly-Prickly.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115"></a>[<a href="images/io-115.png">115</a>]</span>
+'And how is your dear gracious Mummy this
+morning?'</p>
+
+<p>'She is quite well, thank you,' said Painted
+Jaguar; 'but you must forgive me if I do not
+at this precise moment recall your name.'</p>
+
+<p>'That's unkind of you,' said Stickly-Prickly,
+'seeing that this time yesterday you tried to
+scoop me out of my shell with your paw.'</p>
+
+<p>'But you hadn't any shell. It was all
+prickles,' said Painted Jaguar. 'I know it was.
+Just look at my paw!'</p>
+
+<p>'You told me to drop into the turbid Amazon
+and be drowned,' said Slow-Solid. 'Why are
+you so rude and forgetful to-day?'</p>
+
+<p>'Don't you remember what your mother told
+you?' said Stickly-Prickly,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+'Can't curl, but can swim&mdash;<br />
+Stickly-Prickly, that's him!<br />
+Curls up, but can't swim&mdash;<br />
+Slow-Solid, that's him!'<br />
+</div>
+
+<p>Then they both curled themselves up and
+rolled round and round Painted Jaguar till his
+eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head.</p>
+
+<p>Then he went to fetch his mother.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;">
+<a href="images/io-116.png"><img src="images/gs23.png" width="383" height="500" alt="This is a picture of the whole story of the Jaguar and the Hedgehog and the Tortoise and the Armadillo all in a heap." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is a picture of the whole story of the Jaguar and the Hedgehog and
+the Tortoise <i>and</i> the Armadillo all in a heap. It looks rather the same any
+way you turn it. The Tortoise is in the middle, learning how to bend,
+and that is why the shelly plates on his back are so spread apart. He is
+standing on the Hedgehog, who is waiting to learn how to swim. The
+Hedgehog is a Japanesy Hedgehog, because I couldn't find our own
+Hedgehogs in the garden when I wanted to draw them. (It was daytime,
+and they had gone to bed under the dahlias.) Speckly Jaguar is looking
+over the edge, with his paddy-paw carefully tied up by his mother, because
+he pricked himself scooping the Hedgehog. He is much surprised to see
+what the Tortoise is doing, and his paw is hurting him. The snouty
+thing with the little eye that Speckly Jaguar is trying to climb over is the
+Armadillo that the Tortoise and the Hedgehog are going to turn into
+when they have finished bending and swimming. It is all a magic picture,
+and that is one of the reasons why I haven't drawn the Jaguar's whiskers.
+The other reason was that he was so young that his whiskers had not
+grown. The Jaguar's pet name with his Mummy was Doffles.</div>
+
+<p>'Mother,' he said, 'there are two new animals
+in the woods to-day, and the one that you said<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119"></a>[<a href="images/io-119.png">119</a>]</span>
+couldn't swim, swims, and the one that you said
+couldn't curl up, curls; and they've gone shares
+in their prickles, I think, because both of them
+are scaly all over, instead of one being smooth
+and the other very prickly; and, besides that,
+they are rolling round and round in circles, and
+I don't feel comfy.'</p>
+
+<p>'Son, son!' said Mother Jaguar ever so many
+times, graciously waving her tail, 'a Hedgehog
+is a Hedgehog, and can't be anything but a
+Hedgehog; and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, and
+can never be anything else.'</p>
+
+<p>'But it isn't a Hedgehog, and it isn't a
+Tortoise. It's a little bit of both, and I don't
+know its proper name.'</p>
+
+<p>'Nonsense!' said Mother Jaguar. 'Everything
+has its proper name. I should call it
+"Armadillo" till I found out the real one. And
+I should leave it alone.'</p>
+
+<p>So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially
+about leaving them alone; but the curious
+thing is that from that day to this, O Best
+Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid
+Amazon has ever called Stickly-Prickly and
+Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo. There
+are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120"></a>[<a href="images/io-120.png">120</a>]</span>
+course (there are some in my garden); but
+the real old and clever kind, with their scales
+lying lippety-lappety one over the other, like
+pine-cone scales, that lived on the banks of
+the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off
+Days, are always called Armadillos, because
+they were so clever.</p>
+
+<p>So <i>that's</i> all right, Best Beloved. Do you
+see?</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/gs24.png" width="400" height="173" alt="Turtle and armadillo" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121"></a>[<a href="images/io-121.png">121</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br />
+<span class="smcap">I've</span> never sailed the Amazon,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I've never reached Brazil;</span><br />
+But the <i>Don</i> and <i>Magdalena</i>,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They can go there when they will!</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Yes, weekly from Southampton,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Great steamers, white and gold,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Go rolling down to Rio</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">(Roll down&mdash;roll down to Rio!)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">And I'd like to roll to Rio</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Some day before I'm old!</span><br />
+<br />
+I've never seen a Jaguar,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor yet an Armadill&mdash;</span><br />
+O dilloing in his armour,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I s'pose I never will,</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Unless I go to Rio</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">These wonders to behold&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Roll down&mdash;roll down to Rio&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Roll really down to Rio!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Some day before I'm old!</span><br />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;">
+<img src="images/col08.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="How the First Letter Was Written" title="" />
+<span class="caption">How the First Letter Was Written</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123"></a>[<a href="images/io-123.png">123</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 224px;">
+<img src="images/gs25-o.png" width="224" height="225" alt="O" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><b>NCE</b> upon a most early
+time was a Neolithic
+man. He was not a
+Jute or an Angle, or
+even a Dravidian, which
+he might well have
+been, Best Beloved, but
+never mind why. He
+was a Primitive, and he
+lived cavily in a Cave,
+and he wore very few clothes, and he couldn't
+read and he couldn't write and he didn't want
+to, and except when he was hungry he was quite
+happy. His name was Tegumai Bopsulai, and
+that means, 'Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry';
+but we, O Best Beloved,
+will call him Tegumai, for short. And his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124"></a>[<a href="images/io-124.png">124</a>]</span>
+wife's name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that
+means, 'Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions';
+but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai,
+for short. And his little girl-daughter's name
+was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means,
+'Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked';
+but I'm going to call her Taffy.
+And she was Tegumai Bopsulai's Best Beloved
+and her own Mummy's Best Beloved, and she
+was not spanked half as much as was good for
+her; and they were all three very happy. As
+soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere
+with her Daddy Tegumai, and sometimes
+they would not come home to the Cave till they
+were hungry, and then Teshumai Tewindrow
+would say, 'Where in the world have you two
+been to, to get so shocking dirty? Really, my
+Tegumai, you're no better than my Taffy.'</div>
+
+<p>Now attend and listen!</p>
+
+<p>One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down
+through the beaver-swamp to the Wagai river
+to spear carp-fish for dinner, and Taffy went
+too. Tegumai's spear was made of wood with
+shark's teeth at the end, and before he had
+caught any fish at all he accidentally broke it
+clean across by jabbing it down too hard on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125"></a>[<a href="images/io-125.png">125</a>]</span>
+bottom of the river. They were miles and miles
+from home (of course they had their lunch
+with them in a little bag), and Tegumai had
+forgotten to bring any extra spears.</p>
+
+<p>'Here's a pretty kettle of fish!' said Tegumai.
+'It will take me half the day to mend this.'</p>
+
+<p>'There's your big black spear at home,' said
+Taffy. 'Let me run back to the Cave and ask
+Mummy to give it me.'</p>
+
+<p>'It's too far for your little fat legs,' said
+Tegumai. 'Besides, you might fall into the
+beaver-swamp and be drowned. We must make
+the best of a bad job.' He sat down and took
+out a little leather mendy-bag, full of reindeer-sinews
+and strips of leather, and lumps of bee's-wax
+and resin, and began to mend the spear.
+Taffy sat down too, with her toes in the water
+and her chin in her hand, and thought very
+hard. Then she said&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>'I say, Daddy, it's an awful nuisance that you
+and I don't know how to write, isn't it? If we
+did we could send a message for the new spear.'</p>
+
+<p>'Taffy,' said Tegumai, 'how often have I
+told you not to use slang? "Awful" isn't a
+pretty word,&mdash;but it <i>would</i> be a convenience,
+now you mention it, if we could write home.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126"></a>[<a href="images/io-126.png">126</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>Just then a Stranger-man came along the
+river, but he belonged to a far tribe, the
+Tewaras, and he did not understand one word
+of Tegumai's language. He stood on the bank
+and smiled at Taffy, because he had a little
+girl-daughter of his own at home. Tegumai
+drew a hank of deer-sinews from his mendy-bag
+and began to mend his spear.</p>
+
+<p>'Come here,' said Taffy. 'Do you know
+where my Mummy lives?' And the Stranger-man
+said 'Um!'&mdash;being, as you know, a
+Tewara.</p>
+
+<p>'Silly!' said Taffy, and she stamped her
+foot, because she saw a shoal of very big carp
+going up the river just when her Daddy couldn't
+use his spear.</p>
+
+<p>'Don't bother grown-ups,' said Tegumai, so
+busy with his spear-mending that he did not
+turn round.</p>
+
+<p>'I aren't,' said Taffy. 'I only want him to
+do what I want him to do, and he won't understand.'</p>
+
+<p>'Then don't bother me,' said Tegumai, and
+he went on pulling and straining at the deer-sinews
+with his mouth full of loose ends. The
+Stranger-man&mdash;a genuine Tewara he was&mdash;sat<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127"></a>[<a href="images/io-127.png">127</a>]</span>
+down on the grass, and Taffy showed him what
+her Daddy was doing. The Stranger-man
+thought, 'This is a very wonderful child. She
+stamps her foot at me and she makes faces. She
+must be the daughter of that noble Chief who is
+so great that he won't take any notice of me.'
+So he smiled more politely than ever.</p>
+
+<p>'Now,' said Taffy, 'I want you to go to my
+Mummy, because your legs are longer than
+mine, and you won't fall into the beaver-swamp,
+and ask for Daddy's other spear&mdash;the one with
+the black handle that hangs over our fireplace.'</p>
+
+<p>The Stranger-man (<i>and</i> he was a Tewara)
+thought, 'This is a very, very wonderful child.
+She waves her arms and she shouts at me, but I
+don't understand a word of what she says. But
+if I don't do what she wants, I greatly fear that
+that haughty Chief, Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers,
+will be angry.' He got up and
+twisted a big flat piece of bark off a birch-tree
+and gave it to Taffy. He did this, Best Beloved,
+to show that his heart was as white as the
+birch-bark and that he meant no harm; but
+Taffy didn't quite understand.</p>
+
+<p>'Oh!' said she. 'Now I see! You want
+my Mummy's living address? Of course I can't<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128"></a>[<a href="images/io-128.png">128</a>]</span>
+write, but I can draw pictures if I've anything
+sharp to scratch with. Please lend me the
+shark's tooth off your necklace.'</p>
+
+<p>The Stranger-man (and <i>he</i> was a Tewara)
+didn't say anything, so Taffy put up her little
+hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed
+and shark-tooth necklace round his neck.</p>
+
+<p>The Stranger-man (and he <i>was</i> a Tewara)
+thought, 'This is a very, very, very wonderful
+child. The shark's tooth on my necklace is a
+magic shark's tooth, and I was always told that
+if anybody touched it without my leave they
+would immediately swell up or burst, but this
+child doesn't swell up or burst, and that important
+Chief, Man-who-attends-strictly-to-his-business,
+who has not yet taken any notice of
+me at all, doesn't seem to be afraid that she will
+swell up or burst. I had better be more polite.'</p>
+
+<p>So he gave Taffy the shark's tooth, and she
+lay down flat on her tummy with her legs in the
+air, like some people on the drawing-room floor
+when they want to draw pictures, and she said,
+'Now I'll draw you some beautiful pictures!
+You can look over my shoulder, but you mustn't
+joggle. First I'll draw Daddy fishing. It isn't
+very like him; but Mummy will know, because<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129"></a>[<a href="images/io-129.png">129</a>]</span>
+I've drawn his spear all broken. Well, now I'll
+draw the other spear that he wants, the black-handled
+spear. It looks as if it was sticking in
+Daddy's back, but that's because the shark's
+tooth slipped and this piece of bark isn't big
+enough. That's the spear I want you to fetch;
+so I'll draw a picture of me myself 'splaining to
+you. My hair doesn't stand up like I've drawn,
+but it's easier to draw that way. Now I'll draw
+you. <i>I</i> think you're very nice really, but I can't
+make you pretty in the picture, so you mustn't
+be 'fended. Are you 'fended?'</p>
+
+<p>The Stranger-man (and he was <i>a</i> Tewara)
+smiled. He thought, 'There must be a big
+battle going to be fought somewhere, and this
+extraordinary child, who takes my magic shark's
+tooth but who does not swell up or burst, is telling
+me to call all the great Chief's tribe to help
+him. He <i>is</i> a great Chief, or he would have
+noticed me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Look,' said Taffy, drawing very hard and
+rather scratchily, 'now I've drawn you, and I've
+put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand,
+just to remind you that you're to bring it. Now
+I'll show you how to find my Mummy's living-address.
+You go along till you come to two<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130"></a>[<a href="images/io-130.png">130</a>]</span>
+trees (those are trees), and then you go over a
+hill (that's a hill), and then you come into a
+beaver-swamp all full of beavers. I haven't put
+in all the beavers, because I can't draw beavers,
+but I've drawn their heads, and that's all you'll
+see of them when you cross the swamp. Mind
+you don't fall in! Then our Cave is just beyond
+the beaver-swamp. It isn't as high as the hills
+really, but I can't draw things very small. That's
+my Mummy outside. She is beautiful. She is
+the most beautifullest Mummy there ever was,
+but she won't be 'fended when she sees I've
+drawn her so plain. She'll be pleased of me
+because I can draw. Now, in case you forget,
+I've drawn the spear that Daddy wants <i>outside</i>
+our Cave. It's <i>inside</i> really, but you show the
+picture to my Mummy and she'll give it you.
+I've made her holding up her hands, because I
+know she'll be so pleased to see you. Isn't it a
+beautiful picture? And do you quite understand,
+or shall I 'splain again?'</p>
+
+<p>The Stranger-man (and he was a <i>Tewara</i>)
+looked at the picture and nodded very hard.
+He said to himself, 'If I do not fetch this great
+Chief's tribe to help him, he will be slain by his
+enemies who are coming up on all sides with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131"></a>[<a href="images/io-131.png">131</a>]</span>
+spears. Now I see why the great Chief pretended
+not to notice me! He feared that his enemies
+were hiding in the bushes and would see him
+deliver a message to me. Therefore he turned
+his back, and let the wise and wonderful child
+draw the terrible picture showing me his difficulties.
+I will away and get help for him from
+his tribe.' He did not even ask Taffy the road,
+but raced off into the bushes like the wind, with
+the birch-bark in his hand, and Taffy sat down
+most pleased.</p>
+
+<p>Now this is the picture that Taffy had
+drawn for him!</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/gs26.png" width="450" height="311" alt="What had been written" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132"></a>[<a href="images/io-132.png">132</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'What have you been doing, Taffy?' said
+Tegumai. He had mended his spear and was
+carefully waving it to and fro.</p>
+
+<p>'It's a little berangement of my own, Daddy
+dear,' said Taffy. 'If you won't ask me questions,
+you'll know all about it in a little time,
+and you'll be surprised. You don't know how
+surprised you'll be, Daddy! Promise you'll
+be surprised.'</p>
+
+<p>'Very well,' said Tegumai, and went on
+fishing.</p>
+
+<p>The Stranger-man&mdash;did you know he was
+a Tewara?&mdash;hurried away with the picture and
+ran for some miles, till quite by accident he
+found Teshumai Tewindrow at the door of her
+Cave, talking to some other Neolithic ladies who
+had come in to a Primitive lunch. Taffy was
+very like Teshumai, especially about the upper
+part of the face and the eyes, so the Stranger-man&mdash;always
+a pure Tewara&mdash;smiled politely
+and handed Teshumai the birch-bark. He had
+run hard, so that he panted, and his legs were
+scratched with brambles, but he still tried to
+be polite.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Teshumai saw the picture she
+screamed like anything and flew at the Stranger-man.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133"></a>[<a href="images/io-133.png">133</a>]</span>
+The other Neolithic ladies at once
+knocked him down and sat on him in a long
+line of six, while Teshumai pulled his hair.
+'It's as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man's
+face,' she said. 'He has stuck my Tegumai all
+full of spears, and frightened poor Taffy so that
+her hair stands all on end; and not content with
+that, he brings me a horrid picture of how it
+was done. Look!' She showed the picture to
+all the Neolithic ladies sitting patiently on the
+Stranger-man. 'Here is my Tegumai with his
+arm broken; here is a spear sticking into his
+back; here is a man with a spear ready to
+throw; here is another man throwing a spear
+from a Cave, and here are a whole pack of
+people' (they were Taffy's beavers really, but
+they did look rather like people) 'coming up
+behind Tegumai. Isn't it shocking!'</p>
+
+<p>'Most shocking!' said the Neolithic ladies,
+and they filled the Stranger-man's hair with mud
+(at which he was surprised), and they beat upon
+the Reverberating Tribal Drums, and called together
+all the chiefs of the Tribe of Tegumai,
+with their Hetmans and Dolmans, all Neguses,
+Woons, and Akhoonds of the organisation, in
+addition to the Warlocks, Angekoks, Juju-men,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134"></a>[<a href="images/io-134.png">134</a>]</span>
+Bonzes, and the rest, who decided that before
+they chopped the Stranger-man's head off he
+should instantly lead them down to the river
+and show them where he had hidden poor
+Taffy.</p>
+
+<p>By this time the Stranger-man (in spite of
+being a Tewara) was really annoyed. They
+had filled his hair quite solid with mud; they
+had rolled him up and down on knobby
+pebbles; they had sat upon him in a long line
+of six; they had thumped him and bumped him
+till he could hardly breathe; and though he did
+not understand their language, he was almost
+sure that the names the Neolithic ladies called
+him were not ladylike. However, he said
+nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were
+assembled, and then he led them back to the
+bank of the Wagai river, and there they found
+Taffy making daisy-chains, and Tegumai
+carefully spearing small carp with his mended
+spear.</p>
+
+<p>'Well, you <i>have</i> been quick!' said Taffy.
+'But why did you bring so many people?
+Daddy dear, this is my surprise. <i>Are</i> you surprised,
+Daddy?'</p>
+
+<p>'Very,' said Tegumai; 'but it has ruined all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135"></a>[<a href="images/io-135.png">135</a>]</span>
+my fishing for the day. Why, the whole dear,
+kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.'</p>
+
+<p>And so they were. First of all walked
+Teshumai Tewindrow and the Neolithic ladies,
+tightly holding on to the Stranger-man, whose
+hair was full of mud (although he was a Tewara).
+Behind them came the Head Chief, the Vice-Chief,
+the Deputy and Assistant Chiefs (all
+armed to the upper teeth), the Hetmans and
+Heads of Hundreds, Platoffs with their Platoons,
+and Dolmans with their Detachments; Woons,
+Neguses, and Akhoonds ranking in the rear
+(still armed to the teeth). Behind them was
+the Tribe in hierarchical order, from owners of
+four caves (one for each season), a private
+reindeer-run, and two salmon-leaps, to feudal
+and prognathous Villeins, semi-entitled to half a
+bearskin of winter nights, seven yards from the
+fire, and adscript serfs, holding the reversion of a
+scraped marrow-bone under heriot (Aren't those
+beautiful words, Best Beloved?). They were all
+there, prancing and shouting, and they frightened
+every fish for twenty miles, and Tegumai
+thanked them in a fluid Neolithic oration.</p>
+
+<p>Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and
+kissed and hugged Taffy very much indeed; but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136"></a>[<a href="images/io-136.png">136</a>]</span>
+the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai took
+Tegumai by the top-knot feathers and shook
+him severely.</p>
+
+<p>'Explain! Explain! Explain!' cried all the
+Tribe of Tegumai.</p>
+
+<p>'Goodness' sakes alive!' said Tegumai. 'Let
+go of my top-knot. Can't a man break his
+carp-spear without the whole countryside descending
+on him? You're a very interfering
+people.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't believe you've brought my Daddy's
+black-handled spear after all,' said Taffy. 'And
+what <i>are</i> you doing to my nice Stranger-man?'</p>
+
+<p>They were thumping him by twos and threes
+and tens till his eyes turned round and round.
+He could only gasp and point at Taffy.</p>
+
+<p>'Where are the bad people who speared you,
+my darling?' said Teshumai Tewindrow.</p>
+
+<p>'There weren't any,' said Tegumai. 'My
+only visitor this morning was the poor fellow
+that you are trying to choke. Aren't you well,
+or are you ill, O Tribe of Tegumai?'</p>
+
+<p>'He came with a horrible picture,' said the
+Head Chief,&mdash;'a picture that showed you were
+full of spears.'</p>
+
+<p>'Er&mdash;um&mdash;Pr'aps I'd better 'splain that I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137"></a>[<a href="images/io-137.png">137</a>]</span>
+gave him that picture,' said Taffy, but she did
+not feel quite comfy.</p>
+
+<p>'You!' said the Tribe of Tegumai all together.
+'Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked!
+You?'</p>
+
+<p>'Taffy dear, I'm afraid we're in for a little
+trouble,' said her Daddy, and put his arm round
+her, so she didn't care.</p>
+
+<p>'Explain! Explain! Explain!' said the Head
+Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai, and he hopped
+on one foot.</p>
+
+<p>'I wanted the Stranger-man to fetch Daddy's
+spear, so I drawded it,' said Taffy. 'There
+wasn't lots of spears. There was only one
+spear. I drawded it three times to make sure.
+I couldn't help it looking as if it stuck into
+Daddy's head&mdash;there wasn't room on the
+birch-bark; and those things that Mummy called
+bad people are my beavers. I drawded them
+to show him the way through the swamp; and
+I drawded Mummy at the mouth of the Cave
+looking pleased because he is a nice Stranger-man,
+and <i>I</i> think you are just the stupidest
+people in the world,' said Taffy. 'He is a very
+nice man. Why have you filled his hair with
+mud? Wash him!'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138"></a>[<a href="images/io-138.png">138</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>Nobody said anything at all for a long time,
+till the Head Chief laughed; then the Stranger-man
+(who was at least a Tewara) laughed; then
+Tegumai laughed till he fell down flat on the
+bank; then all the Tribe laughed more and
+worse and louder. The only people who did
+not laugh were Teshumai Tewindrow and all
+the Neolithic ladies. They were very polite to
+all their husbands, and said 'idiot!' ever so often.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai
+cried and said and sang, 'O Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked,
+you've hit upon a great invention!'</p>
+
+<p>'I didn't intend to; I only wanted Daddy's
+black-handled spear,' said Taffy.</p>
+
+<p>'Never mind. It <i>is</i> a great invention, and
+some day men will call it writing. At present
+it is only pictures, and, as we have seen to-day,
+pictures are not always properly understood.
+But a time will come, O Babe of Tegumai, when
+we shall make letters&mdash;all twenty-six of 'em,&mdash;and
+when we shall be able to read as well as to
+write, and then we shall always say exactly what
+we mean without any mistakes. Let the Neolithic
+ladies wash the mud out of the stranger's
+hair.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139"></a>[<a href="images/io-139.png">139</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'I shall be glad of that,' said Taffy, 'because,
+after all, though you've brought every single
+other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai, you've forgotten
+my Daddy's black-handled spear.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Head Chief cried and said and
+sang, 'Taffy dear, the next time you write a
+picture-letter, you'd better send a man who can
+talk our language with it, to explain what it
+means. I don't mind it myself, because I am a
+Head Chief, but it's very bad for the rest of the
+Tribe of Tegumai, and, as you can see, it surprises
+the stranger.'</p>
+
+<p>Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a
+genuine Tewara of Tewar) into the Tribe of
+Tegumai, because he was a gentleman and did
+not make a fuss about the mud that the Neolithic
+ladies had put into his hair. But from that day
+to this (and I suppose it is all Taffy's fault), very
+few little girls have ever liked learning to read
+or write. Most of them prefer to draw pictures
+and play about with their Daddies&mdash;just like
+Taffy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140"></a>[<a href="images/io-140.png">140</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 422px;">
+<img src="images/gs27.png" width="422" height="500" alt="This is the story of Taffimai Metallumai carved on an old tusk a very long time ago by the Ancient Peoples." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the story of Taffimai Metallumai carved on an old tusk a very
+long time ago by the Ancient Peoples. If you read my story, or have it
+read to you, you can see how it is all told out on the tusk. The tusk was
+part of an old tribal trumpet that belonged to the Tribe of Tegumai.
+The pictures were scratched on it with a nail or something, and then the
+scratches were filled up with black wax, but all the dividing lines and the
+five little rounds at the bottom were filled with red wax. When it was
+new there was a sort of network of beads and shells and precious stones
+at one end of it; but now that has been broken and lost&mdash;all except the
+little bit that you see. The letters round the tusk are magic&mdash;Runic
+magic,&mdash;and if you can read them you will find out something rather new.
+The tusk is of ivory&mdash;very yellow and scratched. It is two feet long and
+two feet round, and weighs eleven pounds nine ounces.</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143"></a>[<a href="images/io-143.png">143</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">There</span> runs a road by Merrow Down&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A grassy track to-day it is&mdash;</span><br />
+An hour out of Guildford town,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Above the river Wey it is.</span><br />
+<br />
+Here, when they heard the horse-bells ring,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The ancient Britons dressed and rode</span><br />
+To watch the dark Ph&oelig;nicians bring<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Their goods along the Western Road.</span><br />
+<br />
+And here, or hereabouts, they met<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To hold their racial talks and such&mdash;</span><br />
+To barter beads for Whitby jet,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And tin for gay shell torques and such.</span><br />
+<br />
+But long and long before that time<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(When bison used to roam on it)</span><br />
+Did Taffy and her Daddy climb<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That down, and had their home on it.</span><br />
+<br />
+Then beavers built in Broadstonebrook<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And made a swamp where Bramley stands:</span><br />
+And bears from Shere would come and look<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For Taffimai where Shamley stands.</span><br />
+<br />
+The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was more than six times bigger then;</span><br />
+And all the Tribe of Tegumai<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They cut a noble figure then!</span><br />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class='tnote'><div class='center'>Click on the image to see the small print on the image.</div></div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;">
+<a href="images/col09-big.jpg"><img src="images/col09.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="How the Alphabet Was Made" title="" /></a>
+<span class="caption">How the Alphabet Was Made</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145"></a>[<a href="images/io-145.png">145</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 228px;">
+<img src="images/gs28-t.png" width="228" height="300" alt="T" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br /><b>HE</b> week after Taffimai
+Metallumai (we will still
+call her Taffy, Best Beloved)
+made that little
+mistake about her
+Daddy's spear and the
+Stranger-man and the
+picture-letter and all,
+she went carp-fishing
+again with her Daddy.
+Her Mummy wanted
+her to stay at home
+and help hang up hides to dry on the big
+drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but
+Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite
+early, and they fished. Presently she began
+to giggle, and her Daddy said, 'Don't be silly,
+child.'</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146"></a>[<a href="images/io-146.png">146</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'But wasn't it inciting!' said Taffy. 'Don't
+you remember how the Head Chief puffed out
+his cheeks, and how funny the nice Stranger-man
+looked with the mud in his hair?'</p>
+
+<p>'Well do I,' said Tegumai. 'I had to pay
+two deerskins&mdash;soft ones with fringes&mdash;to the
+Stranger-man for the things we did to him.'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>We</i> didn't do anything,' said Taffy. 'It
+was Mummy and the other Neolithic ladies&mdash;and
+the mud.'</p>
+
+<p>'We won't talk about that,' said her Daddy.
+'Let's have lunch.'</p>
+
+<p>Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy-quiet
+for ten whole minutes, while her Daddy
+scratched on pieces of birch-bark with a shark's
+tooth. Then she said, 'Daddy, I've thinked
+of a secret surprise. You make a noise&mdash;any
+sort of noise.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah!' said Tegumai. 'Will that do to
+begin with?'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said Taffy. 'You look just like a carp-fish
+with its mouth open. Say it again, please.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah! ah! ah!' said her Daddy. 'Don't
+be rude, my daughter.'</p>
+
+<p>'I'm not meaning rude, really and truly,'
+said Taffy. 'It's part of my secret-surprise-think.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147"></a>[<a href="images/io-147.png">147</a>]</span>
+<i>Do</i> say <i>ah</i>, Daddy, and keep your
+mouth open at the end, and lend me that
+tooth. I'm going to draw a carp-fish's mouth
+wide-open.'</p>
+
+<p>'What for?' said her Daddy.</p>
+
+<p>'Don't you see?' said Taffy, scratching away
+on the bark. 'That will be our little secret
+s'prise. When I draw a carp-fish with his
+mouth open in the smoke at the back of our
+Cave&mdash;if Mummy doesn't mind&mdash;it will remind
+you of that ah-noise. Then we can play that
+it was me jumped out of the dark and s'prised
+you with that noise&mdash;same as I did in the
+beaver-swamp last winter.'</p>
+
+<p>'Really?' said her Daddy, in the voice that
+grown-ups use when they are truly attending.
+'Go on, Taffy.'</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 90px;">
+<img src="images/gs29-1.png" width="90" height="78" alt="1" title="" />
+<span class="caption">1</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>'Oh bother!' she said. 'I can't draw all
+of a carp-fish, but I can draw something that
+means a carp-fish's mouth. Don't
+you know how they stand on their
+heads rooting in the mud? Well,
+here's a pretence carp-fish (we can
+play that the rest of him is drawn). Here's just
+his mouth, and that means <i>ah</i>.' And she drew
+this. (1.)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148"></a>[<a href="images/io-148.png">148</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'That's not bad,' said Tegumai, and scratched
+on his own piece of bark for himself; but you've
+forgotten the feeler that hangs across his mouth.'</p>
+
+<p>'But I can't draw, Daddy.'</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 90px;">
+<img src="images/gs30-2.png" width="90" height="82" alt="2" title="" />
+<span class="caption">2</span>
+</div>
+<p>'You needn't draw anything of him except
+just the opening of his mouth
+and the feeler across. Then we'll
+know he's a carp-fish, 'cause the
+perches and trouts haven't got feelers.
+Look here, Taffy.' And he drew
+this. (2.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>'Now I'll copy it.' said Taffy. 'Will you
+understand <i>this</i> when you see it?'
+And she drew this. (3.)</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/gs31-3.png" width="100" height="77" alt="3" title="" />
+<span class="caption">3</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>'Perfectly,' said her Daddy.
+'And I'll be quite as s'prised when
+I see it anywhere, as if you had
+jumped out from behind a tree and said
+"Ah!"'</p>
+
+<p>'Now, make another noise,' said Taffy, very
+proud.</p>
+
+<p>'Yah!' said her Daddy, very loud.</p>
+
+<p>'H'm,' said Taffy. 'That's a mixy noise.
+The end part is <i>ah</i>-carp-fish-mouth; but what
+can we do about the front part? <i>Yer-yer-yer</i>
+and <i>ah! Ya!'</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149"></a>[<a href="images/io-149.png">149</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'It's very like the carp-fish-mouth noise.
+Let's draw another bit of the carp-fish and join
+'em,' said her Daddy. <i>He</i> was quite incited
+too.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/gs32-4.png" width="100" height="77" alt="4" title="" />
+<span class="caption">4</span>
+</div>
+<p>'No. If they're joined, I'll forget. Draw
+it separate. Draw his tail. If he's standing on
+his head the tail will come first. 'Sides, I think
+I can draw tails easiest,' said Taffy.</p>
+
+<p>'A good notion,' said Tegumai. 'Here's
+a carp-fish tail for the <i>yer</i>-noise.'
+And he drew this. (4.)</p>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/gs33-5.png" width="100" height="83" alt="5" title="" />
+<span class="caption">5</span>
+</div>
+<p>'I'll try now,' said Taffy.
+''Member I can't draw like you,
+Daddy. Will it do if I just draw
+the split part of the tail, and the sticky-down
+line for where it joins?' And she
+drew this. (5.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>Her Daddy nodded, and his eyes
+were shiny bright with 'citement.</p>
+
+<p>'That's beautiful,' she said.
+'Now make another noise, Daddy.'</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 75px;">
+<img src="images/gs34-6.png" width="75" height="90" alt="6" title="" />
+<span class="caption">6</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>'Oh!' said her Daddy, very loud.</p>
+
+<p>'That's quite easy,' said Taffy. 'You make
+your mouth all around like an egg or a stone.
+So an egg or a stone will do for that.'</p>
+
+<p>'You can't always find eggs or stones.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150"></a>[<a href="images/io-150.png">150</a>]</span>
+We'll have to scratch a round something like
+one.' And he drew this. (6.)</p>
+
+<p>'My gracious!' said Taffy, 'what
+a lot of noise-pictures we've made,&mdash;carp-mouth,
+carp-tail, and egg! Now,
+make another noise, Daddy.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ssh!' said her Daddy, and frowned to
+himself, but Taffy was too incited to notice.</p>
+
+<p>'That's quite easy,' she said, scratching on
+the bark.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 74px;">
+<img src="images/gs35-7.png" width="74" height="91" alt="7" title="" />
+<span class="caption">7</span>
+</div>
+<p>'Eh, what?' said her Daddy. 'I meant I
+was thinking, and didn't want to be disturbed.'</p>
+
+<p>'It's a noise just the same. It's the noise a
+snake makes, Daddy, when it is thinking and
+doesn't want to be disturbed. Let's
+make the <i>ssh</i>-noise a snake. Will this
+do?' And she drew this. (7.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>'There,' she said. 'That's another
+s'prise-secret. When you draw a
+hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave
+where you mend the spears, I'll know you're
+thinking hard; and I'll come in most mousy-quiet.
+And if you draw it on a tree by the
+river when you're fishing, I'll know you want
+me to walk most <i>most</i> mousy-quiet, so as not
+to shake the banks.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151"></a>[<a href="images/io-151.png">151</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'Perfectly true,' said Tegumai. 'And
+there's more in this game than you think.
+Taffy, dear, I've a notion that your Daddy's
+daughter has hit upon the finest thing that
+there ever was since the Tribe of Tegumai
+took to using shark's teeth instead of flints for
+their spear-heads. I believe we've found out
+<i>the</i> big secret of the world.'</p>
+
+<p>'Why?' said Taffy, and her eyes shone too
+with incitement.</p>
+
+<p>'I'll show,' said her Daddy. 'What's water
+in the Tegumai language?'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Ya</i>, of course, and it means river too&mdash;like
+Wagai-<i>ya</i>&mdash;the Wagai river.'</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 129px;">
+<img src="images/gs36-8.png" width="129" height="85" alt="8" title="" />
+<span class="caption">8</span>
+</div>
+<p>'What is bad water that gives you fever if
+you drink it&mdash;black water&mdash;swamp-water?'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Yo</i>, of course.'</p>
+
+<p>'Now look,' said her Daddy. 'S'pose you
+saw this scratched by the side of a
+pool in the beaver-swamp?' And
+he drew this. (8.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>'Carp-tail and round egg.
+Two noises mixed! <i>Yo</i>, bad
+water,' said Taffy. ''Course I wouldn't drink
+that water because I'd know you said it was
+bad.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152"></a>[<a href="images/io-152.png">152</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'But I needn't be near the water at all. I
+might be miles away, hunting, and still&mdash;&mdash;'</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 118px;">
+<img src="images/gs37-9.png" width="118" height="92" alt="9" title="" />
+<span class="caption">9</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>'And <i>still</i> it would be just the same as if
+you stood there and said, "G'way, Taffy, or
+you'll get fever." All that in a carp-fish-tail
+and a round egg! O Daddy, we must tell
+Mummy, quick!' and Taffy danced all round
+him.</p>
+
+<p>'Not yet,' said Tegumai; 'not till we've
+gone a little further. Let's see. <i>Yo</i> is bad
+water, but <i>so</i> is food cooked on the
+fire, isn't it?' And he drew this.
+(9.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>'Yes. Snake and egg,' said Taffy
+'So that means dinner's ready. If
+you saw that scratched on a tree you'd know
+it was time to come to the Cave. So'd I.'</p>
+
+<p>'My Winkie!' said Tegumai. 'That's true
+too. But wait a minute. I see a difficulty.
+<i>So</i> means "come and have dinner," but <i>sho</i> means
+the drying-poles where we hang our hides.'</p>
+
+<p>'Horrid old drying-poles!' said Taffy. 'I
+hate helping to hang heavy, hot, hairy hides on
+them. If you drew the snake and egg, and I
+thought it meant dinner, and I came in from
+the wood and found that it meant I was to help<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153"></a>[<a href="images/io-153.png">153</a>]</span>
+Mummy hang the two hides on the drying-poles,
+what <i>would</i> I do?'</p>
+
+<p>'You'd be cross. So'd Mummy. We must
+make a new picture for <i>sho</i>. We must draw a
+spotty snake that hisses <i>sh-sh</i>, and we'll play
+that the plain snake only hisses <i>ssss</i>.'</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 165px;">
+<img src="images/gs38-10.png" width="165" height="90" alt="10" title="" />
+<span class="caption">10</span>
+</div>
+<p>'I couldn't be sure how to put in the spots,'
+said Taffy. 'And p'raps if <i>you</i> were in a hurry
+you might leave them out, and I'd think it was
+<i>so</i> when it was <i>sho</i>, and then Mummy would
+catch me just the same. <i>No!</i> I think we'd
+better draw a picture of the horrid high drying-poles
+their very selves, and make <i>quite</i> sure.
+I'll put them in just after the
+hissy-snake. Look!' And
+she drew this. (10.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>'P'raps that's safest. It's
+very like our drying-poles,
+anyhow,' said her Daddy, laughing. 'Now
+I'll make a new noise with a snake and
+drying-pole sound in it. I'll say <i>shi</i>. That's
+Tegumai for spear, Taffy.' And he laughed.</p>
+
+<p>'Don't make fun of me,' said Taffy, as she
+thought of her picture-letter and the mud
+in the Stranger-man's hair. '<i>You</i> draw it,
+Daddy.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154"></a>[<a href="images/io-154.png">154</a>]</span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 112px;">
+<img src="images/gs39-11.png" width="112" height="92" alt="11" title="" />
+<span class="caption">11</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>'We won't have beavers or hills this time,
+eh?' said her Daddy. 'I'll just draw a straight
+line for my spear.' and he drew
+this, (11.)</p>
+
+
+<p>'Even Mummy couldn't mistake
+that for me being killed.'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Please</i> don't, Daddy. It makes
+me uncomfy. Do some more noises. We're
+getting on beautifully.'</p>
+
+<p>'Er-hm!' said Tegumai, looking up. 'We'll
+say <i>shu</i>. That means sky.'</p>
+
+<p>Taffy drew the snake and the drying-pole.
+Then she stopped. 'We must make a new
+picture for that end sound, mustn't we?'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Shu-shu-u-u-u!</i>' said her Daddy. 'Why,
+it's just like the round-egg-sound made thin.'</p>
+
+<p>'Then s'pose we draw a thin round egg, and
+pretend it's a frog that hasn't eaten anything for
+years.'</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 60px;">
+<img src="images/gs40-12.png" width="60" height="90" alt="12" title="" />
+<span class="caption">12</span>
+</div>
+<p>'N-no,' said her Daddy. 'If we drew that
+in a hurry we might mistake it for the round
+egg itself. <i>Shu-shu-shu!</i> <i>I'll</i> tell you
+what we'll do. We'll open a little hole
+at the end of the round egg to show how
+the O-noise runs out all thin, <i>ooo-oo-oo</i>.
+Like this.' And he drew this. (12.)</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155"></a>[<a href="images/io-155.png">155</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'Oh, that's lovely! Much better than a thin
+frog. Go on,' said Taffy, using her shark's
+tooth.</p>
+
+<p>Her Daddy went on drawing, and his hand
+shook with excitement.
+He went on till he had
+drawn this. (13.)</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 231px;">
+<img src="images/gs41-13.png" width="231" height="90" alt="13" title="" />
+<span class="caption">13</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>'Don't look up,
+Taffy,' he said. 'Try
+if you can make out what that means in the
+Tegumai language. If you can, we've found
+the Secret.'</p>
+
+<p>'Snake&mdash;pole&mdash;broken-egg&mdash;carp-tail and
+carp-mouth,' said Taffy. '<i>Shu-ya.</i> Sky-water
+(rain).' Just then a drop fell on her hand, for
+the day had clouded over. 'Why, Daddy, it's
+raining. Was <i>that</i> what you meant to tell me?'</p>
+
+<p>'Of course,' said her Daddy. 'And I told
+it you without saying a word, didn't I?'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, I <i>think</i> I would have known it in a
+minute, but that raindrop made me quite sure.
+I'll always remember now. <i>Shu-ya</i> means rain or
+"it is going to rain." Why, Daddy!' She got
+up and danced round him. 'S'pose you went
+out before I was awake, and drawed <i>shu-ya</i> in
+the smoke on the wall, I'd know it was going to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156"></a>[<a href="images/io-156.png">156</a>]</span>
+rain and I'd take my beaver-skin hood. Wouldn't
+Mummy be surprised!'</p>
+
+<p>Tegumai got up and danced. (Daddies
+didn't mind doing those things in those days.)
+'More than that! More than that!' he said.
+'S'pose I wanted to tell you it wasn't going to
+rain much and you must come down to the
+river, what would we draw? Say the words in
+Tegumai-talk first.'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Shu-ya-las, ya maru.</i> (Sky-water ending.
+River come to.) <i>What</i> a lot of new sounds!
+<i>I</i> don't see how we can draw them.'</p>
+
+<p>'But I do&mdash;but I do!' said Tegumai. 'Just
+attend a minute, Taffy, and we won't do any
+more to-day. We've got <i>shu-ya</i> all right,
+haven't we? but this <i>las</i> is a teaser. <i>La-la-la!'</i>
+and he waved his shark-tooth.</p>
+
+<p>'There's the hissy-snake at the end and the
+carp-mouth before the snake&mdash;<i>as-as-as</i>. We
+only want <i>la-la</i>,' said Taffy.</p>
+
+<p>'I know it, but we have to make la-la. And
+we're the first people in all the world who've
+ever tried to do it, Taffimai!'</p>
+
+<p>'Well,' said Taffy, yawning, for she was
+rather tired. '<i>Las</i> means breaking or finishing
+as well as ending, doesn't it?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157"></a>[<a href="images/io-157.png">157</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'So it does,' said Tegumai. '<i>Yo-las</i> means
+that there's no water in the tank for Mummy to
+cook with&mdash;just when I'm going hunting, too.'</p>
+
+<p>'And <i>shi-las</i> means that your spear is broken.
+If I'd only thought of <i>that</i> instead of drawing
+silly beaver pictures for the Stranger!'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>La! La! La!</i>' said Tegumai,  <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'waiving'">waving</ins> his
+stick and frowning. 'Oh bother!'</p>
+
+<p>'I could have drawn <i>shi</i> quite easily,' Taffy
+went on. 'Then I'd have drawn your spear all
+broken&mdash;this way!' And she drew. (14.)</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" summary="14, 15, 16">
+<tr><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 66px;">
+<img src="images/gs42-14.png" width="66" height="90" alt="14" title="" />
+<span class="caption">14</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 127px;">
+<img src="images/gs42-15.png" width="127" height="90" alt="15" title="" />
+<span class="caption">15</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 90px;">
+<img src="images/gs42-16.png" width="90" height="34" alt="16" title="" />
+<span class="caption">16</span>
+</div></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<p>'The very thing,' said Tegumai. 'That's
+<i>la</i> all over. It isn't like any of the other marks,
+either.' And he drew this. (15.)</p>
+
+<p>'Now for <i>ya</i>. Oh, we've done that before.
+Now for <i>maru</i>. <i>Mum-mum-mum</i>. <i>Mum</i> shuts
+one's mouth up, doesn't it? We'll draw a shut
+mouth like this.' And he drew. (16.)</p>
+
+<p>'Then the carp-mouth open. That makes
+<i>Ma-ma-ma!</i> But what about this <i>rrrrr</i>-thing,
+Taffy?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158"></a>[<a href="images/io-158.png">158</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'It sounds all rough and edgy, like your
+shark-tooth saw when you're cutting out a plank
+for the canoe,' said Taffy.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 183px;">
+<img src="images/gs43-17.png" width="183" height="66" alt="17" title="" />
+<span class="caption">17</span>
+</div>
+<p>'You mean all sharp at the
+edges, like this?' said Tegumai.
+And he drew. (17.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>''Xactly,' said Taffy. 'But we don't want
+all those teeth: only put two.'</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 70px;">
+<img src="images/gs44-18.png" width="70" height="61" alt="18" title="" />
+<span class="caption">18</span>
+</div>
+<p>'I'll only put in one,' said Tegumai. 'If
+this game of ours is going to be what I think it
+will, the easier we make our sound-pictures
+the better for everybody.'
+And he drew. (18.)</p>
+
+
+
+<p>'<i>Now</i> we've got it,' said Tegumai,
+standing on one leg. 'I'll draw 'em all in a
+string like fish.'</p>
+
+<p>'Hadn't we better put a little bit of stick or
+something between each word, so's they won't
+rub up against each other and jostle, same as if
+they were carps?'</p>
+
+<p>'Oh, I'll leave a space for that,' said her
+Daddy. And very incitedly he drew them all
+without stopping, on a big new bit of birch-bark.
+(19.)</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Shu-ya-las ya-maru</i>,' said Taffy, reading it
+out sound by sound.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159"></a>[<a href="images/io-159.png">159</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/gs45.png" width="450" height="62" alt="19" title="" />
+<span class="caption">19</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>'That's enough for to-day,' said Tegumai.
+'Besides, you're getting tired, Taffy. Never
+mind, dear. We'll finish it all to-morrow, and
+then we'll be remembered for years and years
+after the biggest trees you can see are all chopped
+up for firewood.'</p>
+
+<p>So they went home, and all that evening
+Tegumai sat on one side of the fire and Taffy
+on the other, drawing <i>ya's</i> and <i>yo's</i> and <i>shu's</i>
+and <i>shi's</i> in the smoke on the wall and giggling
+together till her Mummy said, 'Really, Tegumai,
+you're worse than my Taffy.'</p>
+
+<p>'Please don't mind,' said Taffy. 'It's only
+our secret-s'prise, Mummy dear, and we'll tell
+you all about it the very minute it's done; but
+<i>please</i> don't ask me what it is now, or else I'll
+have to tell.'</p>
+
+<p>So her Mummy most carefully didn't; and
+bright and early next morning Tegumai went
+down to the river to think about new sound-pictures,
+and when Taffy got up she saw <i>Ya-las</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160"></a>[<a href="images/io-160.png">160</a>]</span>
+(water is ending or running out) chalked on
+the side of the big stone water-tank, outside
+the Cave.</p>
+
+<p>'Um,' said Taffy. 'These picture-sounds
+are rather a bother! Daddy's just as good as
+come here himself and told me to get more water
+for Mummy to cook with.' She went to the
+spring at the back of the house and filled the
+tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down
+to the river and pulled her Daddy's left ear&mdash;the
+one that belonged to her to pull when she was
+good.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 95px;">
+<img src="images/gs46-20.png" width="95" height="72" alt="20" title="" />
+<span class="caption">20</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 94px;">
+<img src="images/gs46-21.png" width="94" height="90" alt="21" title="" />
+<span class="caption">21</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 82px;">
+<img src="images/gs46-22.png" width="82" height="90" alt="22" title="" />
+<span class="caption">22</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 86px;">
+<img src="images/gs46-23.png" width="86" height="85" alt="23" title="" />
+<span class="caption">23</span>
+</div></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p>'Now come along and we'll draw all the
+left-over sound-pictures,' said her Daddy, and
+they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful
+lunch in the middle, and two games of
+romps. When they came to T, Taffy said that
+as her name, and her Daddy's, and her Mummy's
+all began with that sound, they should draw a
+sort of family group of themselves holding hands.
+That was all very well to draw once or twice;
+but when it came to drawing it six or seven
+times, Taffy and Tegumai drew it scratchier and
+scratchier, till at last the T-sound was only a
+thin long Tegumai with his arms out to hold
+Taffy and Teshumai. You can see from these<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161"></a>[<a href="images/io-161.png">161</a>]</span>
+three pictures partly how it happened. (20,
+21, 22.)</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" summary="Figures 24-27">
+<tr><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 56px;">
+<img src="images/gs47-24.png" width="56" height="80" alt="24" title="" />
+<span class="caption">24</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 66px;">
+<img src="images/gs47-25.png" width="66" height="95" alt="25" title="" />
+<span class="caption">25</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 70px;">
+<img src="images/gs47-26.png" width="70" height="85" alt="26" title="" />
+<span class="caption">26</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 79px;">
+<img src="images/gs47-27.png" width="79" height="90" alt="27" title="" />
+<span class="caption">27</span>
+</div></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p>Many of the other pictures were much too
+beautiful to begin with, especially before lunch,
+but as they were drawn over and over again on
+birch-bark, they became plainer and easier, till
+at last even Tegumai said he could find no fault
+with them. They turned the hissy-snake the
+other way round for the Z-sound, to show it
+was hissing backwards in a soft and gentle way
+(23); and they just made a twiddle for E, because
+it came into the pictures so often (24); and
+they drew pictures of the sacred Beaver of the
+Tegumais for the B-sound (25, 26, 27, 28);
+and because it was a nasty, nosy noise, they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162"></a>[<a href="images/io-162.png">162</a>]</span>
+just drew noses for the N-sound, till they were
+tired (29); and they drew a picture of the big
+lake-pike's mouth for the greedy Ga-sound (30);
+and they drew the pike's mouth again with a
+spear behind it for the scratchy, hurty Ka-sound
+(31); and they drew pictures of a little bit of
+the winding Wagai river for the nice windy-windy
+Wa-sound (32, 33); and so on and so
+forth and so following till they had done and
+drawn all the sound-pictures that they wanted,
+and there was the Alphabet, all complete.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" summary="28-30">
+<tr><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 71px;">
+<img src="images/gs48-28.png" width="71" height="85" alt="28" title="" />
+<span class="caption">28</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/gs48-29.png" width="250" height="80" alt="29" title="" />
+<span class="caption">29</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 95px;">
+<img src="images/gs48-30.png" width="95" height="77" alt="30" title="" />
+<span class="caption">30</span>
+</div></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p>And after thousands and thousands and
+thousands of years, and after Hieroglyphics and
+Demotics, and Nilotics, and Cryptics, and Cufics,
+and Runics, and Dorics, and Ionics, and all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163"></a>[<a href="images/io-163.png">163</a>]</span>
+sorts of other ricks and tricks (because the
+Woons, and the Neguses, and the Akhoonds,
+and the Repositories of Tradition would never
+leave a good thing alone when they saw it),
+the fine old easy, understandable Alphabet&mdash;A,
+B, C, D, E, and the rest of 'em&mdash;got back
+into its proper shape again for all Best Beloveds
+to learn when they are old enough.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="30" cellspacing="0" summary="31-33">
+<tr><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 91px;">
+<img src="images/gs49-31.png" width="91" height="90" alt="31" title="" />
+<span class="caption">31</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 102px;">
+<img src="images/gs49-32.png" width="102" height="95" alt="32" title="" />
+<span class="caption">32</span>
+</div></td><td align='left'><div class="figcenter" style="width: 120px;">
+<img src="images/gs49-33.png" width="120" height="90" alt="33" title="" />
+<span class="caption">33</span>
+</div></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p>But <i>I</i> remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and
+Taffimai Metallumai and Teshumai Tewindrow,
+her dear Mummy, and all the days gone by.
+And it was so&mdash;just so&mdash;a little time ago&mdash;on
+the banks of the big Wagai!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165"></a>[<a href="images/io-165.png">165</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="caption2"><span class="smcap">One</span> of the first things that Tegumai Bopsulai did after Taffy and he had
+made the Alphabet was to make a magic Alphabet-necklace of all the letters,
+so that it could be put in the Temple of Tegumai and kept for ever and
+ever. All the Tribe of Tegumai brought their most precious beads and
+beautiful things, and Taffy and Tegumai spent five whole years getting
+the necklace in order. This is a picture of the magic Alphabet-necklace.
+The string was made of the finest and strongest reindeer-sinew, bound
+round with thin copper wire.<br />
+
+<p>Beginning at the top, the first bead is an old silver one that belonged
+to the Head Priest of the Tribe of Tegumai; then come three black
+mussel-pearls; next is a clay bead (blue and gray); next a nubbly gold
+bead sent as a present by a tribe who got it from Africa (but it
+must have been Indian really); the next is a long flat-sided glass bead
+from Africa (the Tribe of Tegumai took it in a fight); then come two
+clay beads (white and green), with dots on one, and dots and bands on
+the other; next are three rather chipped amber beads; then three clay
+beads (red and white), two with dots, and the big one in the middle with a
+toothed pattern. Then the letters begin, and between each letter is a little
+whitish clay bead with the letter repeated small. Here are the letters&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class='hang1'>
+A is scratched on a tooth&mdash;an elk-tusk I think.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+B is the Sacred Beaver of Tegumai on a bit of old glory.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+C is a pearly oyster-shell&mdash;inside front.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+D must be a sort of mussel-shell&mdash;outside front.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+E is a twist of silver wire.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+F is broken, but what remains of it is a bit of stag's horn.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+G is painted black on a piece of wood. (The bead after G is a small
+shell, and not a clay bead. I don't know why they did that.)</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+H is a kind of a big brown cowie-shell.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+I is the inside part of a long shell ground down by hand. (It took
+Tegumai three months to grind it down.)</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+J is a fish hook in mother-of-pearl.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+L is the broken spear in silver. (K ought to follow J of course, but
+the necklace was broken once and they mended it wrong.)</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+K is a thin slice of bone scratched and rubbed in black.</div>
+<div><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166"></a>[<a href="images/io-166.png">166</a>]</span></div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+M is on a pale gray shell.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+N is a piece of what is called porphyry with a nose scratched on it.
+(Tegumai spent five months polishing this stone.)</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+O is a piece of oyster-shell with a hole in the middle.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+P and Q are missing. They were lost, a long time ago, in a great
+war, and the tribe mended the necklace with the dried rattles of a
+rattlesnake, but no one ever found P and Q. That is how the
+saying began, 'You must mind your P's. and Q's.'</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+R is, of course, just a shark's tooth.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+S is a little silver snake.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+T is the end of a small bone, polished brown and shiny.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+U is another piece of oyster-shell.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+W is a twisty piece of mother-of-pearl that they found inside a big
+mother-of-pearl shell, and sawed off with a wire dipped in sand
+and water. It took Taffy a month and a half to polish it and drill
+the holes.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+X is silver wire joined in the middle with a raw garnet. (Taffy
+found the garnet.)</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+Y is the carp's tail in ivory.</div>
+<div class='hang1'>
+Z is a bell-shaped piece of agate marked with Z-shaped stripes. They
+made the Z-snake out of one of the stripes by picking out the soft
+stone and rubbing in red sand and bee's-wax. Just in the mouth of
+the bell you see the clay bead repeating the Z-letter.</div>
+
+
+<p>These are all the letters.</p>
+
+<p>The next bead is a small round greeny lump of copper ore; the next
+is a lump of rough turquoise; the next is a rough gold nugget (what they
+call water-gold); the next is a melon-shaped clay bead (white with green
+spots). Then come four flat ivory pieces, with dots on them rather like
+dominoes; then come three stone beads, very badly worn; then two soft
+iron beads with rust-holes at the edges (they must have been magic, because
+they look very common); and last is a very very old African bead, like
+glass&mdash;blue, red, white, black, and yellow. Then comes the loop to slip over
+the big silver button at the other end, and that is all.</p>
+
+<p>I have copied the necklace very carefully. It weighs one pound seven
+and a half ounces. The black squiggle behind is only put in to make the
+beads and things look better.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167"></a>[<a href="images/io-167.png">167</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 501px;">
+<img src="images/gs50.png" width="501" height="500" alt="These are the letters" title="" />
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169"></a>[<a href="images/io-169.png">169</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">Of</span> all the Tribe of Tegumai<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who cut that figure, none remain,&mdash;</span><br />
+On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The silence and the sun remain.</span><br />
+<br />
+But as the faithful years return<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And hearts unwounded sing again,</span><br />
+Comes Taffy dancing through the fern<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To lead the Surrey spring again.</span><br />
+<br />
+Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And golden elf-locks fly above;</span><br />
+Her eyes are bright as diamonds<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And bluer than the skies above.</span><br />
+<br />
+In mocassins and deer-skin cloak,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Unfearing, free and fair she flits,</span><br />
+And lights her little damp-wood smoke<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To show her Daddy where she flits.</span><br />
+<br />
+For far&mdash;oh, very far behind,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">So far she cannot call to him,</span><br />
+Comes Tegumai alone to find<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The daughter that was all to him.</span><br />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 354px;">
+<img src="images/col10.jpg" width="354" height="500" alt="The Crab that Played With the Sea" title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Crab that Played With the Sea</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171"></a>[<a href="images/io-171.png">171</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 161px;">
+<img src="images/gs51-b.png" width="161" height="200" alt="B" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><b>EFORE</b> 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
+Sea ready; and then
+he told all the Animals
+that they could come out and play. And the
+Animals said, 'O Eldest Magician, what shall
+we play at?' and he said, 'I will show you.'
+He took the Elephant&mdash;All-the-Elephant-there-was&mdash;and
+said, 'Play at being an Elephant,'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172"></a>[<a href="images/io-172.png">172</a>]</span>
+and All-the-Elephant-there-was played. He
+took the Beaver&mdash;All-the-Beaver-there-was&mdash;and
+said, 'Play at being a Beaver,' and All-the-Beaver-there-was
+played. He took the Cow&mdash;All-the-Cow-there-was&mdash;and
+said, 'Play at
+being a Cow,' and All-the-Cow-there-was
+played. He took the Turtle&mdash;All-the-Turtle-there-was&mdash;and
+said, 'Play at being a Turtle,'
+and All-the-Turtle-there-was played. One by
+one he took all the beasts and birds and fishes
+and told them what to play at.</div>
+
+<p>But towards evening, when people and things
+grow restless and tired, there came up the Man
+(With his own little girl-daughter?)&mdash;Yes, with
+his own best beloved little girl-daughter sitting
+upon his shoulder, and he said, 'What is this
+play, Eldest Magician?' And the Eldest
+Magician said, 'Ho, Son of Adam, this is the
+play of the Very Beginning; but you are too
+wise for this play.' And the Man saluted and
+said, 'Yes, I am too wise for this play; but see
+that you make all the Animals obedient to me.'</p>
+
+<p>Now, while the two were talking together,
+Pau Amma the Crab, who was next in the
+game, scuttled off sideways and stepped into the
+sea, saying to himself, 'I will play my play alone<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173"></a>[<a href="images/io-173.png">173</a>]</span>
+in the deep waters, and I will never be obedient
+to this son of Adam.' Nobody saw him go
+away except the little girl-daughter where she
+leaned on the Man's shoulder. And the play
+went on till there were no more Animals left
+without orders; and the Eldest Magician wiped
+the fine dust off his hands and walked about the
+world to see how the Animals were playing.</p>
+
+<p>He went North, Best Beloved, and he found
+All-the-Elephant-there-was digging with his
+tusks and stamping with his feet in the nice new
+clean earth that had been made ready for him.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Kun?</i>' said All-the-Elephant-there-was,
+meaning, 'Is this right?'</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Payah kun</i>,' said the Eldest Magician,
+meaning, 'That is quite right'; and he breathed
+upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that
+All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and
+they became the great Himalayan Mountains,
+and you can look them out on the map.</p>
+
+<p>He went East, and he found All-the-Cow-there-was
+feeding in the field that had been
+made ready for her, and she licked her tongue
+round a whole forest at a time, and swallowed it
+and sat down to chew her cud.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Kun?</i>' said All-the-Cow-there-was.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174"></a>[<a href="images/io-174.png">174</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 340px;">
+<img src="images/gs52.png" width="340" height="500" alt="This is a picture of Pau Amma the Crab running away while the Eldest Magician was talking to the Man and his Little Girl Daughter." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is a picture of Pau Amma the Crab running away while the Eldest
+Magician was talking to the Man and his Little Girl Daughter. The
+Eldest Magician is sitting on his magic throne, wrapped up in his Magic
+Cloud. The three flowers in front of him are the three Magic Flowers.
+On the top of the hill you can see All-the-Elephant-there-was, and All-the-Cow-there-was,
+and All-the-Turtle-there-was going off to play as the
+Eldest Magician told them. The Cow has a hump, because she was
+All-the-Cow-there-was; so she had to have all there was for all the cows
+that were made afterwards. Under the hill there are Animals who have
+been taught the game they were to play. You can see All-the-Tiger-there-was
+smiling at All-the-Bones-there-were, and you can see All-the-Elk-there-was,
+and All-the-Parrot-there-was, and All-the-Bunnies-there-were
+on the hill. The other Animals are on the other side of the hill, so I
+haven't drawn them. The little house up the hill is All-the-House-there-was.
+The Eldest Magician made it to show the Man how to make
+houses when he wanted to. The Snake round that spiky hill is All-the-Snake-there-was,
+and he is talking to All-the-Monkey-there-was, and the
+Monkey is being rude to the Snake, and the Snake is being rude to the
+Monkey. The Man is very busy talking to the Eldest Magician. The
+Little Girl Daughter is looking at Pau Amma as he runs away. That
+humpy thing in the water in front is Pau Amma. He wasn't a common
+Crab in those days. He was a King Crab. That is why he looks different.
+The thing that looks like bricks that the Man is standing in, is the
+Big Miz-Maze. When the Man has done talking with the Eldest
+Magician he will walk in the Big Miz-Maze, because he has to. The
+mark on the stone under the Man's foot is a magic mark; and down
+underneath I have drawn the three Magic Flowers all mixed up with the
+Magic Cloud. All this picture is Big Medicine and Strong Magic.</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177"></a>[<a href="images/io-177.png">177</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'<i>Payah kun</i>,' said the Eldest Magician; and
+he breathed upon the bare patch where she had
+eaten, and upon the place where she had sat
+down, and one became the great Indian Desert,
+and the other became the Desert of Sahara, and
+you can look them out on the map.</p>
+
+<p>He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was
+making a beaver-dam across the mouths
+of broad rivers that had been got ready for him.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Kun?</i>' said All-the-Beaver-there-was.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Payah kun</i>,' said the Eldest Magician; and
+he breathed upon the fallen trees and the still
+water, and they became the Everglades in
+Florida, and you may look them out on the
+map.</p>
+
+<p>Then he went South and found All-the-Turtle-there-was
+scratching with his flippers in
+the sand that had been got ready for him, and
+the sand and the rocks whirled through the air
+and fell far off into the sea.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Kun?</i>' said All-the-Turtle-there-was.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Payah kun</i>,' said the Eldest Magician; and
+he breathed upon the sand and the rocks, where
+they had fallen in the sea, and they became
+the most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes,
+Sumatra, Java, and the rest of the Malay Archipelago,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178"></a>[<a href="images/io-178.png">178</a>]</span>
+and you can look <i>them</i> out on the
+map!</p>
+
+<p>By and by the Eldest Magician met the Man
+on the banks of the Perak river, and said, 'Ho!
+Son of Adam, are all the Animals obedient to
+you?'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said the Man.</p>
+
+<p>'Is all the Earth obedient to you?'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said the Man.</p>
+
+<p>'Is all the Sea obedient to you?'</p>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Man. 'Once a day and once
+a night the Sea runs up the Perak river and
+drives the sweet-water back into the forest, so
+that my house is made wet; once a day and
+once a night it runs down the river and draws
+all the water after it, so that there is nothing left
+but mud, and my canoe is upset. Is that the
+play you told it to play?'</p>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Eldest Magician. 'That is a
+new and a bad play.'</p>
+
+<p>'Look!' said the Man, and as he spoke the
+great Sea came up the mouth of the Perak river,
+driving the river backwards till it overflowed all
+the dark forests for miles and miles, and flooded
+the Man's house.</p>
+
+<p>'This is wrong. Launch your canoe and we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179"></a>[<a href="images/io-179.png">179</a>]</span>
+will find out who is playing with the Sea,' said
+the Eldest Magician. They stepped into the
+canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them;
+and the Man took his <i>kris</i>&mdash;a curving, wavy
+dagger with a blade like a flame,&mdash;and they
+pushed out on the Perak river. Then the sea
+began to run back and back, and the canoe was
+sucked out of the mouth of the Perak river,
+past Selangor, past Malacca, past Singapore, out
+and out to the Island of Bingtang, as though it
+had been pulled by a string.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Eldest Magician stood up and
+shouted, 'Ho! beasts, birds, and fishes, that I
+took between my hands at the Very Beginning
+and taught the play that you should play, which
+one of you is playing with the Sea?'</p>
+
+<p>Then all the beasts, birds, and fishes said
+together, 'Eldest Magician, we play the plays
+that you taught us to play&mdash;we and our children's
+children. But not one of us plays with the Sea.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Moon rose big and full over the
+water, and the Eldest Magician said to the
+hunchbacked old man who sits in the Moon
+spinning a fishing-line with which he hopes one
+day to catch the world, 'Ho! Fisher of the
+Moon, are you playing with the Sea?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180"></a>[<a href="images/io-180.png">180</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Fisherman, 'I am spinning a
+line with which I shall some day catch the
+world; but I do not play with the Sea.' And he
+went on spinning his line.</p>
+
+<p>Now there is also a Rat up in the Moon who
+always bites the old Fisherman's line as fast as it
+is made, and the Eldest Magician said to him,
+'Ho! Rat of the Moon, are <i>you</i> playing with
+the Sea?'</p>
+
+<p>And the Rat said, 'I am too busy biting
+through the line that this old Fisherman is spinning.
+I do not play with the Sea.' And he
+went on biting the line.</p>
+
+<p>Then the little girl-daughter put up her little
+soft brown arms with the beautiful white shell
+bracelets and said, 'O Eldest Magician! when
+my father here talked to you at the Very Beginning,
+and I leaned upon his shoulder while the
+beasts were being taught their plays, one beast
+went away naughtily into the Sea before you had
+taught him his play.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise
+are little children who see and are silent! What
+was the beast like?'</p>
+
+<p>And the little girl-daughter said, 'He was
+round and he was flat; and his eyes grew upon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181"></a>[<a href="images/io-181.png">181</a>]</span>
+stalks; and he walked sideways like this;
+and he was covered with strong armour upon
+his back.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise
+are little children who speak truth! Now I
+know where Pau Amma went. Give me the
+paddle!'</p>
+
+<p>So he took the paddle; but there was no
+need to paddle, for the water flowed steadily
+past all the islands till they came to the place
+called Pusat Tasek&mdash;the Heart of the Sea&mdash;where
+the great hollow is that leads down to the heart
+of the world, and in that hollow grows the
+Wonderful Tree, Pauh Janggi, that bears the
+magic twin nuts. Then the Eldest Magician
+slid his arm up to the shoulder through the deep
+warm water, and under the roots of the Wonderful
+Tree he touched the broad back of Pau
+Amma the Crab. And Pau Amma settled down
+at the touch, and all the Sea rose up as water
+rises in a basin when you put your hand into it.</p>
+
+<p>'Ah!' said the Eldest Magician. 'Now I
+know who has been playing with the Sea;' and
+he called out, 'What are you doing, Pau
+Amma?'</p>
+
+<p>And Pau Amma, deep down below,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182"></a>[<a href="images/io-182.png">182</a>]</span>
+answered, 'Once a day and once a night I go
+out to look for my food. Once a day and once
+a night I return. Leave me alone.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Eldest Magician said, 'Listen, Pau
+Amma. When you go out from your cave the
+waters of the Sea pour down into Pusat Tasek,
+and all the beaches of all the islands are left
+bare, and the little fish die, and Raja Moyang
+Kaban, the King of the Elephants, his legs
+are made muddy. When you come back and
+sit in Pusat Tasek, the waters of the Sea rise,
+and half the little islands are drowned, and the
+Man's house is flooded, and Raja Abdullah, the
+King of the Crocodiles, his mouth is filled with
+the salt water.</p>
+
+<p>Then Pau Amma, deep down below, laughed
+and said, 'I did not know I was so important.
+Henceforward I will go out seven times a day,
+and the waters shall never be still.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Eldest Magician said, 'I cannot
+make you play the play you were meant to play,
+Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very
+Beginning; but if you are not afraid, come up
+and we will talk about it.'</p>
+
+<p>'I am not afraid,' said Pau Amma, and he
+rose to the top of the sea in the moonlight.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183"></a>[<a href="images/io-183.png">183</a>]</span>
+There was nobody in the world so big as Pau
+Amma&mdash;for he was the King Crab of all Crabs.
+Not a common Crab, but a King Crab. One
+side of his great shell touched the beach at
+Sarawak; the other touched the beach at
+Pahang; and he was taller than the smoke of
+three volcanoes! As he rose up through the
+branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one
+of the great twin-fruits&mdash;the magic double-kernelled
+nuts that make people young,&mdash;and
+the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside
+the canoe, and pulled it in and began to
+pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden
+scissors.</p>
+
+<p>'Now,' said the Magician, 'make a Magic,
+Pau Amma, to show that you are really important.'</p>
+
+<p>Pau Amma rolled his eyes and waved his
+legs, but he could only stir up the Sea, because,
+though he was a King Crab, he was nothing
+more than a Crab, and the Eldest Magician
+laughed.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;">
+<a href="images/io-184.png"><img src="images/gs53.png" width="359" height="500" alt="This is the picture of Pau Amma the Crab rising out of the sea as tall as the smoke of three volcanoes." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of Pau Amma the Crab rising out of the sea as tall as
+the smoke of three volcanoes. I haven't drawn the three volcanoes,
+because Pau Amma was so big. Pau Amma is trying to make a Magic,
+but he is only a silly old King Crab, and so he can't do anything. You
+can see he is all legs and claws and empty hollow shell. The canoe is the
+canoe that the Man and the Girl Daughter and the Eldest Magician sailed
+from the Perak river in. The sea is all black and bobbly, because Pau
+Amma has just risen up out of Pusat Tasek. Pusat Tasek is underneath,
+so I haven't drawn it. The Man is waving his curvy <i>kris</i>-knife at Pau
+Amma. The Little Girl Daughter is sitting quietly in the middle of the
+canoe. She knows she is quite safe with her Daddy. The Eldest
+Magician is standing up at the other end of the canoe beginning to make
+a Magic. He has left his magic throne on the beach, and he has taken off
+his clothes so as not to get wet, and he has left the Magic Cloud behind
+too, so as not to tip the boat over. The thing that looks like another
+little canoe outside the real canoe is called an outrigger. It is a piece
+of wood tied to sticks, and it prevents the canoe from being tipped over.
+The canoe is made out of one piece of wood, and there is a paddle at one
+end of it.</div>
+
+<p>'You are not so important after all, Pau
+Amma,' he said. 'Now, let <i>me</i> try,' and he
+made a Magic with his left hand&mdash;with just the
+little finger of his left hand&mdash;and&mdash;lo and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187"></a>[<a href="images/io-187.png">187</a>]</span>
+behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma's hard, blue-green-black
+shell fell off him as a husk falls off
+a cocoa-nut, and Pau Amma was left all soft&mdash;soft
+as the little crabs that you sometimes find
+on the beach, Best Beloved.</p>
+
+<p>'Indeed, you are very important,' said the
+Eldest Magician. 'Shall I ask the Man here to
+cut you with <i>kris?</i> Shall I send for Raja
+Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, to
+pierce you with his tusks, or shall I call Raja
+Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, to bite
+you?'</p>
+
+<p>And Pau Amma said, 'I am ashamed! Give
+me back my hard shell and let me go back to
+Pusat Tasek, and I will only stir out once a
+day and once a night to get my food.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Eldest Magician said, 'No, Pau
+Amma, I will <i>not</i> give you back your shell, for
+you will grow bigger and prouder and stronger,
+and perhaps you will forget your promise, and
+you will play with the Sea once more.'</p>
+
+<p>Then Pau Amma said, 'What shall I do? I
+am so big that I can only hide in Pusat Tasek,
+and if I go anywhere else, all soft as I am now,
+the sharks and the dogfish will eat me. And if
+I go to Pusat Tasek, all soft as I am now,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188"></a>[<a href="images/io-188.png">188</a>]</span>
+though I may be safe, I can never stir out to get
+my food, and so I shall die.' Then he waved
+his legs and lamented.</p>
+
+<p>'Listen, Pau Amma,' said the Eldest Magician.
+'I cannot make you play the play you
+were meant to play, because you escaped me
+at the Very Beginning; but if you choose, I
+can make every stone and every hole and
+every bunch of weed in all the seas a safe
+Pusat Tasek for you and your children for
+always.'</p>
+
+<p>Then Pau Amma said, 'That is good, but I
+do not choose yet. Look! there is that Man
+who talked to you at the Very Beginning.
+If he had not taken up your attention I should
+not have grown tired of waiting and run away,
+and all this would never have happened. What
+will <i>he</i> do for me?'</p>
+
+<p>And the Man said, 'If you choose, I will
+make a Magic, so that both the deep water and
+the dry ground will be a home for you and your
+children&mdash;so that you shall be able to hide both
+on the land and in the sea.'</p>
+
+<p>And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet.
+Look! there is that girl who saw me running
+away at the Very Beginning. If she had spoken<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189"></a>[<a href="images/io-189.png">189</a>]</span>
+then, the Eldest Magician would have called me
+back, and all this would never have happened.
+What will <i>she</i> do for me?'</p>
+
+<p>And the little girl-daughter said, 'This is a
+good nut that I am eating. If you choose, I
+will make a Magic and I will give you this pair
+of scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you
+and your children can eat cocoa-nuts like this
+all day long when you come up from the Sea to
+the land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for
+yourself with the scissors that belong to you
+when there is no stone or hole near by; and
+when the earth is too hard, by the help of
+these same scissors you can run up a tree.'</p>
+
+<p>And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet,
+for, all soft as I am, these gifts would not help
+me. Give me back my shell, O Eldest Magician,
+and then I will play your play.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Eldest Magician said, 'I will give it
+back, Pau Amma, for eleven months of the year;
+but on the twelfth month of every year it shall
+grow soft again, to remind you and all your
+children that I can make magics, and to keep
+you humble, Pau Amma; for I see that if you
+can run both under the water and on land, you
+will grow too bold; and if you can climb trees<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190"></a>[<a href="images/io-190.png">190</a>]</span>
+and crack nuts and dig holes with your scissors,
+you will grow too greedy, Pau Amma.'</p>
+
+<p>Then Pau Amma thought a little and said,
+'I have made my choice. I will take all the
+gifts.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with
+the right hand, with all five fingers of his right
+hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau
+Amma grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till
+at last there was only a little green crab swimming
+in the water alongside the canoe, crying
+in a very small voice, 'Give me the scissors!'</p>
+
+<p>And the girl-daughter picked him up on the
+palm of her little brown hand, and sat him in
+the bottom of the canoe and gave him her
+scissors, and he waved them in his little arms,
+and opened them and shut them and snapped
+them, and said, 'I can eat nuts. I can crack
+shells. I can dig holes. I can climb trees. I
+can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a safe
+Pusat Tasek under every stone. I did not know
+I was so important. <i>Kun?</i>' (Is this right?)</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Payah-kun</i>,' said the Eldest Magician, and
+he laughed and gave him his blessing; and little
+Pau Amma scuttled over the side of the canoe
+into the water; and he was so tiny that he could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191"></a>[<a href="images/io-191.png">191</a>]</span>
+have hidden under the shadow of a dry leaf on
+land or of a dead shell at the bottom of the sea.</p>
+
+<p>'Was that well done?' said the Eldest
+Magician.</p>
+
+<p>'Yes,' said the Man. 'But now we must go
+back to Perak, and that is a weary way to paddle.
+If we had waited till Pau Amma had gone out
+of Pusat Tasek and come home, the water would
+have carried us there by itself.'</p>
+
+<p>'You are lazy,' said the Eldest Magician.
+'So your children shall be lazy. They shall be
+the laziest people in the world. They shall be
+called the Malazy&mdash;the lazy people;' and he
+held up his finger to the Moon and said, 'O
+Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row
+home. Pull his canoe home with your line,
+Fisherman.'</p>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Man. 'If I am to be lazy all
+my days, let the Sea work for me twice a day
+for ever. That will save paddling.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Eldest Magician laughed and said,</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Payah kun</i>' (That is right).</p>
+
+<p>And the Rat of the Moon stopped biting the
+line; and the Fisherman let his line down till it
+touched the Sea, and he pulled the whole deep
+Sea along, past the Island of Bintang, past Singapore,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192"></a>[<a href="images/io-192.png">192</a>]</span>
+past Malacca, past Selangor, till the canoe
+whirled into the mouth of the Perak River again.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Kun?</i>' said the Fisherman of the Moon.</p>
+
+<p>'<i>Payah kun</i>,' said the Eldest Magician. 'See
+now that you pull the Sea twice a day and twice
+a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen
+may be saved paddling. But be careful not to
+do it too hard, or I shall make a magic on you
+as I did to Pau Amma.'</p>
+
+<p>Then they all went up the Perak River and
+went to bed, Best Beloved.</p>
+
+<p>Now listen and attend!</p>
+
+<p>From that day to this the Moon has always
+pulled the sea up and down and made what we
+call the tides. Sometimes the Fisher of the Sea
+pulls a little too hard, and then we get spring-tides;
+and sometimes he pulls a little too softly,
+and then we get what are called neap-tides;
+but nearly always he is careful, because of the
+Eldest Magician.</p>
+
+<p>And Pau Amma? You can see when you
+go to the beach, how all Pau Amma's babies
+make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under
+every stone and bunch of weed on the sands;
+you can see them waving their little scissors;
+and in some parts of the world they truly live<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193"></a>[<a href="images/io-193.png">193</a>]</span>
+on the dry land and run up the palm trees and
+eat cocoa-nuts, exactly as the girl-daughter promised.
+But once a year all Pau Ammas must
+shake off their hard armour and be soft&mdash;to
+remind them of what the Eldest Magician could
+do. And so it isn't fair to kill or hunt Pau
+Amma's babies just because old Pau Amma was
+stupidly rude a very long time ago.</p>
+
+<p>Oh yes! And Pau Amma's babies hate being
+taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought
+home in pickle-bottles. That is why they nip
+you with their scissors, and it serves you right!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195"></a>[<a href="images/io-195.png">195</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">China-going</span> P. and O.'s<br />
+Pass Pau Amma's playground close,<br />
+And his Pusat Tasek lies<br />
+Near the track of most B.I.'s.<br />
+U.Y.K. and N.D.L.<br />
+Know Pau Amma's home as well<br />
+As the fisher of the Sea knows<br />
+'Bens,' M.M.'s, and Rubattinos.<br />
+But (and this is rather queer)<br />
+A.T.L.'s can <i>not</i> come here;<br />
+O. and O. and D.O.A.<br />
+Must go round another way.<br />
+Orient, Anchor, Bibby, Hall,<br />
+Never go that way at all.<br />
+U.C.S. would have a fit<br />
+If it found itself on it.<br />
+And if 'Beavers' took their cargoes<br />
+To Penang instead of Lagos,<br />
+Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore<br />
+Passengers to Singapore,<br />
+Or a White Star were to try a<br />
+Little trip to Sourabaya,<br />
+Or a B.S.A. went on<br />
+Past Natal to Cheribon,<br />
+Then great Mr. Lloyds would come<br />
+With a wire and drag them home!<br />
+<br />
+You'll know what my riddle means<br />
+When you've eaten mangosteens.<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Or if you can't wait till then, ask them to let you have the
+outside page of the <i>Times;</i> turn over to page 2, where it is
+marked 'Shipping' on the top left hand; then take the Atlas
+(and that is the finest picture-book in the world) and see how the
+names of the places that the steamers go to fit into the names of
+the places on the map. Any steamer-kiddy ought to be able
+to do that; but if you can't read, ask some one to show it you.</p></div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 362px;">
+<img src="images/col11.jpg" width="362" height="500" alt="The Cat that Walked by Himself" title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Cat that Walked by Himself</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197"></a>[<a href="images/io-197.png">197</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/gs54-hear.png" width="300" height="206" alt="HEAR" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br /> &nbsp;and attend and
+listen; for this
+befell and behappened
+and
+became and
+was, O my
+Best Beloved,
+when the Tame
+animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the
+Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the
+Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild&mdash;as wild
+as wild could be&mdash;and they walked in the Wet
+Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the
+wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat.
+He walked by himself, and all places were alike
+to him.</div>
+
+<p>Of course the Man was wild too. He was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198"></a>[<a href="images/io-198.png">198</a>]</span>
+dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be
+tame till he met the Woman, and she told him
+that she did not like living in his wild ways.
+She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a
+heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she
+strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a
+nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and
+she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down,
+across the opening of the Cave; and she said,
+'Wipe  <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'you'">your</ins> feet, dear, when you come in, and
+now we'll keep house.'</p>
+
+<p>That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild
+sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavoured
+with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck
+stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and
+wild coriander; and marrow-bones of wild oxen;
+and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas. Then
+the Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever
+so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her
+hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of
+mutton&mdash;the big fat blade-bone&mdash;and she
+looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she
+threw more wood on the fire, and she made a
+Magic. She made the First Singing Magic in
+the world.</p>
+
+<p>Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199"></a>[<a href="images/io-199.png">199</a>]</span>
+animals gathered together where they could see
+the light of the fire a long way off, and they
+wondered what it meant.</p>
+
+<p>Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild
+foot and said, 'O my Friends and O my
+Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman
+made that great light in that great Cave, and
+what harm will it do us?'</p>
+
+<p>Wild Dog lifted up his wild nose and smelled
+the smell of roast mutton, and said, 'I will
+go up and see and look, and say; for I think it
+is good. Cat, come with me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who
+walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
+I will not come.'</p>
+
+<p>'Then we can never be friends again,' said
+Wild Dog, and he trotted off to the Cave.
+But when he had gone a little way the Cat said
+to himself, 'All places are alike to me. Why
+should I not go too and see and look and come
+away at my own liking.' So he slipped after
+Wild Dog softly, very softly, and hid himself
+where he could hear everything.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 384px;">
+<a href="images/io-200.png"><img src="images/gs55.png" width="384" height="500" alt="This is the picture of the Cave where the Man and the Woman lived first of all." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of the Cave where the Man and the Woman lived
+first of all. It was really a very nice Cave, and much warmer than it
+looks. The Man had a canoe. It is on the edge of the river, being
+soaked in the water to make it swell up. The tattery-looking thing across
+the river is the Man's salmon-net to catch salmon with. There are nice
+clean stones leading up from the river to the mouth of the Cave, so that
+the Man and the Woman could go down for water without getting sand
+between their toes. The things like black-beetles far down the beach are
+really trunks of dead trees that floated down the river from the Wet Wild
+Woods on the other bank. The Man and the Woman used to drag them
+out and dry them and cut them up for firewood. I haven't drawn the horse-hide
+curtain at the mouth of the Cave, because the Woman has just taken
+it down to be cleaned. All those little smudges on the sand between the
+Cave and the river are the marks of the Woman's feet and the Man's feet.<br />
+
+<p>The Man and the Woman are both inside the Cave eating their
+dinner. They went to another cosier Cave when the Baby came, because
+the Baby used to crawl down to the river and fall in, and the Dog had to
+pull him out.</p></div>
+<p>When Wild Dog reached the mouth of the
+Cave he lifted up the dried horse-skin with his
+nose and sniffed the beautiful smell of the roast<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203"></a>[<a href="images/io-203.png">203</a>]</span>
+mutton, and the Woman, looking at the blade-bone,
+heard him, and laughed, and said, 'Here
+comes the first. Wild Thing out of the Wild
+Woods, what do you want?'</p>
+
+<p>Wild Dog said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of
+my Enemy, what is this that smells so good in
+the Wild Woods?'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Woman picked up a roasted
+mutton-bone and threw it to Wild Dog, and
+said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods,
+taste and try.' Wild Dog gnawed the bone,
+and it was more delicious than anything he had
+ever tasted, and he said, 'O my Enemy and
+Wife of my Enemy, give me another.'</p>
+
+<p>The Woman said, 'Wild Thing out of the
+Wild Woods, help my Man to hunt through
+the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will
+give you as many roast bones as you need.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah!' said the Cat, listening. This is a
+very wise Woman, but she is not so wise as
+I am.'</p>
+
+<p>Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid
+his head on the Woman's lap, and said, 'O
+my Friend and Wife of my Friend, I will help
+your Man to hunt through the day, and at
+night I will guard your Cave.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204"></a>[<a href="images/io-204.png">204</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'Ah!' said the Cat, listening. 'That is a
+very foolish Dog.' And he went back through
+the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail,
+and walking by his wild lone. But he never
+told anybody.</p>
+
+<p>When the Man waked up he said, 'What is
+Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman
+said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but
+the First Friend, because he will be our friend
+for always and always and always. Take him
+with you when you go hunting.'</p>
+
+<p>Next night the Woman cut great green
+armfuls of fresh grass from the water-meadows,
+and dried it before the fire, so that it smelt like
+new-mown hay, and she sat at the mouth of the
+Cave and plaited a halter out of horse-hide, and
+she looked at the shoulder of mutton-bone&mdash;at
+the big broad blade-bone&mdash;and she made a
+Magic. She made the Second Singing Magic
+in the world.</p>
+
+<p>Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals
+wondered what had happened to Wild Dog, and
+at last Wild Horse stamped with his foot and
+said, 'I will go and see and say why Wild
+Dog has not returned. Cat, come with me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205"></a>[<a href="images/io-205.png">205</a>]</span>
+walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
+I will not come.' But all the same he followed
+Wild Horse softly, very softly, and hid himself
+where he could hear everything.</p>
+
+<p>When the Woman heard Wild Horse tripping
+and stumbling on his long mane, she laughed
+and said, 'Here comes the second. Wild Thing
+out of the Wild Woods what do you want?'</p>
+
+<p>Wild Horse said, 'O my Enemy and Wife
+of my Enemy, where is Wild Dog?'</p>
+
+<p>The Woman laughed, and picked up the
+blade-bone and looked at it, and said, 'Wild
+Thing out of the Wild Woods, you did not come
+here for Wild Dog, but for the sake of this good
+grass.'</p>
+
+<p>And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on
+his long mane, said, 'That is true; give it me
+to eat.'</p>
+
+<p>The Woman said, 'Wild Thing out of the
+Wild Woods, bend your wild head and wear
+what I give you, and you shall eat the wonderful
+grass three times a day.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'this is a clever
+Woman, but she is not so clever as I am.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 354px;">
+<a href="images/io-206.png"><img src="images/gs56.png" width="354" height="500" alt="This is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself, walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild tail." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself, walking by his
+wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild tail. There
+is nothing else in the picture except some toadstools. They had to grow
+there because the woods were so wet. The lumpy thing on the low
+branch isn't a bird. It is moss that grew there because the Wild Woods
+were so wet.<br />
+
+<p>Underneath the truly picture is a picture of the cozy Cave that the
+Man and the Woman went to after the Baby came. It was their summer
+Cave, and they planted wheat in front of it. The Man is riding on the
+Horse to find the Cow and bring her back to the Cave to be milked. He
+is holding up his hand to call the Dog, who has swum across to the other
+side of the river, looking for rabbits.</p></div>
+
+<p>Wild Horse bent his wild head, and the
+Woman slipped the plaited hide halter over it,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209"></a>[<a href="images/io-209.png">209</a>]</span>
+and Wild Horse breathed on the Woman's feet
+and said, 'O my Mistress, and Wife of my
+Master, I will be your servant for the sake of the
+wonderful grass.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'that is a very
+foolish Horse.' And he went back through the
+Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking
+by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.</p>
+
+<p>When the Man and the Dog came back from
+hunting, the Man said, 'What is Wild Horse
+doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His
+name is not Wild Horse any more, but the First
+Servant, because he will carry us from place to
+place for always and always and always. Ride
+on his back when you go hunting.'</p>
+
+<p>Next day, holding her wild head high that
+her wild horns should not catch in the wild
+trees, Wild Cow came up to the Cave, and the
+Cat followed, and hid himself just the same as
+before; and everything happened just the same
+as before; and the Cat said the same things as
+before, and when Wild Cow had promised to
+give her milk to the Woman every day in exchange
+for the wonderful grass, the Cat went
+back through the Wet Wild Woods waving
+his wild tail and walking by his wild lone,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210"></a>[<a href="images/io-210.png">210</a>]</span>
+just the same as before. But he never told
+anybody. And when the Man and the Horse
+and the Dog came home from hunting and
+asked the same questions same as before, the
+Woman said, 'Her name is not Wild Cow
+any more, but the Giver of Good Food. She
+will give us the warm white milk for always and
+always and always, and I will take care of her
+while you and the First Friend and the First
+Servant go hunting.'</p>
+
+<p>Next day the Cat waited to see if any other
+Wild thing would go up to the Cave, but no
+one moved in the Wet Wild Woods, so the Cat
+walked there by himself; and he saw the Woman
+milking the Cow, and he saw the light of the
+fire in the Cave, and he smelt the smell of the
+warm white milk.</p>
+
+<p>Cat said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my
+Enemy, where did Wild Cow go?'</p>
+
+<p>The Woman laughed and said, 'Wild Thing
+out of the Wild Woods, go back to the Woods
+again, for I have braided up my hair, and I have
+put away the magic blade-bone, and we have no
+more need of either friends or servants in our
+Cave.'</p>
+
+<p>Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211"></a>[<a href="images/io-211.png">211</a>]</span>
+a servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself,
+and I wish to come into your cave.'</p>
+
+<p>Woman said, 'Then why did you not come
+with First Friend on the first night?'</p>
+
+<p>Cat grew very angry and said, 'Has Wild
+Dog told tales of me?'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Woman laughed and said, 'You
+are the Cat who walks by himself, and all places
+are alike to you.  <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Your'">You</ins> are neither a friend nor
+a servant. You have said it yourself. Go away
+and walk by yourself in all places alike.'</p>
+
+<p>Then Cat pretended to be sorry and said,
+'Must I never come into the Cave? Must I
+never sit by the warm fire? Must I never
+drink the warm white milk? You are very
+wise and very beautiful. You should not be
+cruel even to a Cat.'</p>
+
+<p>Woman said, 'I knew I was wise, but I did
+not know I was beautiful. So I will make a
+bargain with you. If ever I say one word in
+your praise you may come into the Cave.'</p>
+
+<p>'And if you say two words in my praise?'
+said the Cat.</p>
+
+<p>'I never shall,' said the Woman, 'but if I
+say two words in your praise, you may sit by
+the fire in the Cave.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212"></a>[<a href="images/io-212.png">212</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'And if you say three words?' said the Cat.</p>
+
+<p>'I never shall,' said the Woman, 'but if I
+say three words in your praise, you may drink
+the warm white milk three times a day for
+always and always and always.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Cat arched his back and said,
+'Now let the Curtain at the mouth of the Cave,
+and the Fire at the back of the Cave, and the
+Milk-pots that stand beside the Fire, remember
+what my Enemy and the Wife of my Enemy has
+said.' And he went away through the Wet
+Wild Woods waving his wild tail and walking
+by his wild lone.</p>
+
+<p>That night when the Man and the Horse
+and the Dog came home from hunting, the
+Woman did not tell them of the bargain that
+she had made with the Cat, because she was
+afraid that they might not like it.</p>
+
+<p>Cat went far and far away and hid himself in
+the Wet Wild Woods by his wild lone for a
+long time till the Woman forgot all about him.
+Only the Bat&mdash;the little upside-down Bat&mdash;that
+hung inside the Cave, knew where Cat hid; and
+every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news
+of what was happening.</p>
+
+<p>One evening Bat said, 'There is a Baby<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213"></a>[<a href="images/io-213.png">213</a>]</span>
+in the Cave. He is new and pink and fat and
+small, and the Woman is very fond of him.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'but what is the
+Baby fond of?'</p>
+
+<p>'He is fond of things that are soft and tickle,'
+said the Bat. 'He is fond of warm things to
+hold in his arms when he goes to sleep. He is
+fond of being played with. He is fond of all
+those things.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'then my
+time has come.'</p>
+
+<p>Next night Cat walked through the Wet
+Wild Woods and hid very near the Cave till
+morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse
+went hunting. The Woman was busy cooking
+that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted.
+So she carried him outside the Cave
+and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with.
+But still the Baby cried.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Cat put out his paddy paw and
+patted the Baby on the cheek, and it cooed;
+and the Cat rubbed against its fat knees and
+tickled it under its fat chin with his tail. And
+the Baby laughed; and  <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'ths'">the</ins> Woman heard him
+and smiled.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Bat&mdash;the little upside-down Bat&mdash;that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214"></a>[<a href="images/io-214.png">214</a>]</span>
+hung in the mouth of the Cave said, 'O my
+Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my
+Host's Son, a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods
+is most beautifully playing with your Baby.'</p>
+
+<p>'A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he
+may be,' said the Woman, straightening her
+back, 'for I was a busy woman this morning
+and he has done me a service.'</p>
+
+<p>The very minute and second, Best Beloved,
+the dried horse-skin Curtain that was stretched
+tail-down at the mouth of the Cave fell down&mdash;<i>woosh!</i>&mdash;because
+it remembered the bargain she
+had made with the Cat, and when the Woman
+went to pick it up&mdash;lo and behold!&mdash;the Cat
+was sitting quite comfy inside the Cave.</p>
+
+<p>'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and
+Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat, 'it is I: for
+you have spoken a word in my praise, and now
+I can sit within the Cave for always and always
+and always. But still I am the Cat who walks
+by himself, and all places are alike to me.'</p>
+
+<p>The Woman was very angry, and shut her
+lips tight and took up her spinning-wheel and
+began to spin.</p>
+
+<p>But the Baby cried because the Cat had gone
+away, and the Woman could not hush it, for it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215"></a>[<a href="images/io-215.png">215</a>]</span>
+struggled and kicked and grew black in the
+face.</p>
+
+<p>'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and
+Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat, 'take a
+strand of the wire that you are spinning and
+tie it to your spinning-whorl and drag it along
+the floor, and I will show you a magic that shall
+make your Baby laugh as loudly as he is now
+crying.'</p>
+
+<p>'I will do so,' said the Woman, 'because I
+am at my wits' end; but I will not thank you
+for it.'</p>
+
+<p>She tied the thread to the little clay spindle-whorl
+and drew it across the floor, and the Cat
+ran after it and patted it with his paws and
+rolled head over heels, and tossed it backward
+over his shoulder and chased it between his
+hind-legs and pretended to lose it, and pounced
+down upon it again, till the Baby laughed as
+loudly as it had been crying, and scrambled
+after the Cat and frolicked all over the Cave till
+it grew tired and settled down to sleep with the
+Cat in its arms.</p>
+
+<p>'Now,' said the Cat, 'I will sing the Baby a
+song that shall keep him asleep for an hour.'
+And he began to purr, loud and low, low and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216"></a>[<a href="images/io-216.png">216</a>]</span>
+loud, till the Baby fell fast asleep. The Woman
+smiled as she looked down upon the two of
+them and said, 'That was wonderfully done.
+No question but you are very clever, O Cat.'</p>
+
+<p>That very minute and second, Best Beloved,
+the smoke of the fire at the back of the Cave
+came down in clouds from the roof&mdash;<i>puff!</i>&mdash;because
+it remembered the bargain she had
+made with the Cat, and when it had cleared
+away&mdash;lo and behold!&mdash;the Cat was sitting
+quite comfy close to the fire.</p>
+
+<p>'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and
+Mother of My Enemy,' said the Cat, 'it is I, for
+you have spoken a second word in my praise,
+and now I can sit by the warm fire at the back
+of the Cave for always and always and always.
+But still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and
+all places are alike to me.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Woman was very very angry, and
+let down her hair and put more wood on the
+fire and brought out the broad blade-bone of
+the shoulder of mutton and began to make a
+Magic that should prevent her from saying a
+third word in praise of the Cat. It was not a
+Singing Magic, Best Beloved, it was a Still
+Magic; and by and by the Cave grew so still<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217"></a>[<a href="images/io-217.png">217</a>]</span>
+that a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner
+and ran across the floor.</p>
+
+<p>'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and
+Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat, 'is that
+little mouse part of your magic?'</p>
+
+<p>'Ouh! Chee! No indeed!' said the Woman,
+and she dropped the blade-bone and jumped
+upon the footstool in front of the fire and
+braided up her hair very quick for fear that the
+mouse should run up it.</p>
+
+<p>'Ah,' said the Cat, watching, 'then the
+mouse will do me no harm if I eat it?'</p>
+
+<p>'No,' said the Woman, braiding up her hair,
+'eat it quickly and I will ever be grateful to
+you.'</p>
+
+<p>Cat made one jump and caught the little
+mouse, and the Woman said, 'A hundred thanks.
+Even the First Friend is not quick enough to
+catch little mice as you have done. You must
+be very wise.'</p>
+
+<p>That very moment and second, O Best
+Beloved, the Milk-pot that stood by the fire
+cracked in two pieces&mdash;<i>ffft</i>&mdash;because it remembered
+the bargain she had made with the Cat,
+and when the Woman jumped down from the
+footstool&mdash;lo and behold!&mdash;the Cat was lapping<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218"></a>[<a href="images/io-218.png">218</a>]</span>
+up the warm white milk that lay in one of the
+broken pieces.</p>
+
+<p>'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and
+Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat, 'it is I; for
+you have spoken three words in my praise, and
+now I can drink the warm white milk three
+times a day for always and always and always.
+But <i>still</i> I am the Cat who walks by himself, and
+all places are alike to me.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat
+a bowl of the warm white milk and said, 'O
+Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember
+that your bargain was not made with the Man
+or the Dog, and I do not know what they will
+do when they come home.'</p>
+
+<p>'What is that to me?' said the Cat. 'If I
+have my place in the Cave by the fire and my
+warm white milk three times a day I do not
+care what the Man or the Dog can do.'</p>
+
+<p>That evening when the Man and the Dog
+came into the Cave, the Woman told them all the
+story of the bargain while the Cat sat by the
+fire and smiled. Then the Man said, 'Yes, but
+he has not made a bargain with <i>me</i> or with all
+proper Men after me.' Then he took off his
+two leather boots and he took up his little<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219"></a>[<a href="images/io-219.png">219</a>]</span>
+stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched
+a piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five
+altogether), and he set them out in a row and
+he said, 'Now we will make <i>our</i> bargain. If
+you do not catch mice when you are in the Cave
+for always and always and always, I will throw
+these five things at you whenever I see you, and
+so shall all proper Men do after me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah,' said the Woman, listening, 'this is a
+very clever Cat, but he is not so clever as my
+Man.'</p>
+
+<p>The Cat counted the five things (and they
+looked very knobby) and he said, 'I will catch
+mice when I am in the Cave for always and
+always and always; but <i>still</i> I am the Cat who
+walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Not when I am near,' said the Man. 'If
+you had not said that last I would have put all
+these things away for always and always and
+always; but I am now going to throw my two
+boots and my little stone axe (that makes three)
+at you whenever I meet you. And so shall all
+proper Men do after me!'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Dog said, 'Wait a minute. He has
+not made a bargain with <i>me</i> or with all proper
+Dogs after me.' And he showed his teeth<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220"></a>[<a href="images/io-220.png">220</a>]</span>
+and said, 'If you are not kind to the Baby while
+I am in the Cave for always and always and
+always, I will hunt you till I catch you, and
+when I catch you I will bite you. And so shall
+all proper Dogs do after me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Ah,' said the Woman, listening, 'this is a
+very clever Cat, but he is not so clever as the
+Dog.'</p>
+
+<p>Cat counted the Dog's teeth (and they looked
+very pointed) and he said, 'I will be kind to
+the Baby while I am in the Cave, as long as
+he does not pull my tail too hard, for always
+and always and always. But <i>still</i> I am the Cat
+that walks by himself, and all places are alike
+to me.'</p>
+
+<p>'Not when I am near,' said the Dog. 'If
+you had not said that last I would have shut my
+mouth for always and always and always; but
+<i>now</i> I am going to hunt you up a tree whenever
+I meet you. And so shall all proper Dogs do
+after me.'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Man threw his two boots and his
+little stone axe (that makes three) at the Cat,
+and the Cat ran out of the Cave and the Dog
+chased him up a tree; and from that day to
+this, Best Beloved, three proper Men out of five<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221"></a>[<a href="images/io-221.png">221</a>]</span>
+will always throw things at a Cat whenever they
+meet him, and all proper Dogs will chase him up a
+tree. But the Cat keeps his side of the bargain
+too. He will kill mice and he will be kind to
+Babies when he is in the house, just as long as
+they do not pull his tail too hard. But when
+he has done that, and between times, and when
+the moon gets up and night comes, he is the
+Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike
+to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild
+Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet
+Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by
+his wild lone.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223"></a>[<a href="images/io-223.png">223</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/gs57-top.png" width="400" height="138" alt="Pussy" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='poem'><br />
+<span class="smcap">Pussy</span> can sit by the fire and sing,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Pussy can climb a tree,</span><br />
+Or play with a silly old cork and string<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To 'muse herself, not me.</span><br />
+But I like <i>Binkie</i> my dog, because<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He knows how to behave;</span><br />
+So, <i>Binkie's</i> the same as the First Friend was<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I am the Man in the Cave.</span><br />
+<br />
+Pussy will play man-Friday till<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It's time to wet her paw</span><br />
+And make her walk on the window-sill<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(For the footprint Crusoe saw);</span><br />
+Then she fluffles her tail and mews,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And scratches and won't attend.</span><br />
+But <i>Binkie</i> will play whatever I choose,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And he is my true First Friend.</span><br />
+<br />
+Pussy will rub my knees with her head<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Pretending she loves me hard;</span><br />
+But the very minute I go to my bed<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Pussy runs out in the yard,</span><br />
+And there she stays till the morning-light;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">So I know it is only pretend;</span><br />
+But <i>Binkie</i>, he snores at my feet all night,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And he is my Firstest Friend!</span><br />
+<br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;">
+<img src="images/gs58-bottom.png" width="425" height="131" alt="Binkie" title="" />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 357px;">
+<img src="images/col12.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="The Butterfly that Stamped" title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Butterfly that Stamped</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225"></a>[<a href="images/io-225.png">225</a>]</span></p>
+<h2>THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 234px;">
+<img src="images/gs59-t.png" width="234" height="275" alt="T" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><b>HIS</b>, O my Best Beloved,
+is a story&mdash;a new and
+a wonderful story&mdash;a
+story quite different
+from the other stories&mdash;a
+story about The
+Most Wise Sovereign
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud&mdash;Solomon
+the Son of
+David.</div>
+
+
+<p>There are three
+hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud;
+but this  <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original omits this word">is</ins> not one of them. It is
+not the story of the Lapwing who found the
+Water; or the Hoopoe who shaded Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+from the heat. It is not the story
+of the Glass Pavement, or the Ruby with the
+Crooked Hole, or the Gold Bars of Balkis. It
+is the story of the Butterfly that Stamped.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226"></a>[<a href="images/io-226.png">226</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>Now attend all over again and listen!</p>
+
+<p>Suleiman-bin-Daoud was wise. He understood
+what the beasts said, what the birds said,
+what the fishes said, and what the insects said.
+He understood what the rocks said deep under
+the earth when they bowed in towards each
+other and groaned; and he understood what the
+trees said when they rustled in the middle of the
+morning. He understood everything, from the
+bishop on the bench to the hyssop on the wall,
+and Balkis, his Head Queen, the Most Beautiful
+Queen Balkis, was nearly as wise as he was.</p>
+
+<p>Suleiman-bin-Daoud was strong. Upon the
+third finger of the right hand he wore a ring.
+When he turned it once, Afrits and Djinns came
+out of the earth to do whatever he told them.
+When he turned it twice, Fairies came down
+from the sky to do whatever he told them; and
+when he turned it three times, the very great
+angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a
+water-carrier, and told him the news of the
+three worlds,&mdash;Above&mdash;Below&mdash;and Here.</p>
+
+<p>And yet Suleiman-bin-Daoud was not proud.
+He very seldom showed off, and when he did
+he was sorry for it. Once he tried to feed all
+the animals in all the world in one day, but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227"></a>[<a href="images/io-227.png">227</a>]</span>
+when the food was ready an Animal came out of
+the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and
+said, 'O Animal, who are you?' And the
+Animal said, 'O King, live for ever! I am the
+smallest of thirty thousand brothers, and our
+home is at the bottom of the sea. We heard
+that you were going to feed all the animals in
+all the world, and my brothers sent me to ask
+when dinner would be ready.' Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+was more surprised than ever and said,
+'O Animal, you have eaten all the dinner that I
+made ready for all the animals in the world.'
+And the Animal said, 'O King, live for ever, but
+do you really call that a dinner? Where I come
+from we each eat twice as much as that between
+meals.' Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on
+his face and said, 'O Animal! I gave that
+dinner to show what a great and rich king I was,
+and not because I really wanted to be kind to
+the animals. Now I am ashamed, and it serves
+me right.' Suleiman-bin-Daoud was a really
+truly wise man, Best Beloved. After that he
+never forgot that it was silly to show off; and
+now the real story part of my story begins.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;">
+<a href="images/io-228.png"><img src="images/gs60.png" width="358" height="500" alt="This is the picture of the Animal that came out of the sea and ate up all the food that Suleiman-bin-Daoud had made ready for all the animals in all the world." title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of the Animal that came out of the sea and ate up all
+the food that Suleiman-bin-Daoud had made ready for all the animals in
+all the world. He was really quite a nice Animal, and his Mummy was
+very fond of him and of his twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine
+other brothers that lived at the bottom of the sea. You know that
+he was the smallest of them all, and so his name was Small Porgies.
+He ate up all those boxes and packets and bales and things that had been
+got ready for all the animals, without ever once taking off the lids or
+untying the strings, and it did not hurt him at all. The sticky-up masts
+behind the boxes of food belong to Suleiman-bin-Daoud's ships. They
+were busy bringing more food when Small Porgies came ashore. He did
+not eat the ships. They stopped unloading the foods and instantly sailed
+away to sea till Small Porgies had quite finished eating. You can see
+some of the ships beginning to sail away by Small Porgies' shoulder. I
+have not drawn Suleiman-bin-Daoud, but he is just outside the picture,
+very much astonished. The bundle hanging from the mast of the ship in
+the corner is really a package of wet dates for parrots to eat. I don't
+know the names of the ships. That is all there is in that picture.
+</div>
+<p>He married ever so many wifes. He married<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231"></a>[<a href="images/io-231.png">231</a>]</span>
+nine hundred and ninety-nine wives, besides the
+Most Beautiful Balkis; and they all lived in a
+great golden palace in the middle of a lovely
+garden with fountains. He didn't really want
+nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but in those
+days everybody married ever so many wives, and
+of course the King had to marry ever so many
+more just to show that he was the King.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the wives were nice, but some were
+simply horrid, and the horrid ones quarrelled
+with the nice ones and made them horrid too,
+and then they would all quarrel with Suleiman-bin-Daoud,
+and that was horrid for him. But
+Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled
+with Suleiman-bin-Daoud. She loved him too
+much. She sat in her rooms in the Golden
+Palace, or walked in the Palace garden, and was
+truly sorry for him.</p>
+
+<p>Of course if he had chosen to turn his ring
+on his finger and call up the Djinns and the
+Afrits they would have magicked all those nine
+hundred and ninety-nine quarrelsome wives into
+white mules of the desert or greyhounds or
+pomegranate seeds; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+thought that that would be showing off. So,
+when they quarrelled too much, he only walked<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232"></a>[<a href="images/io-232.png">232</a>]</span>
+by himself in one part of the beautiful Palace
+gardens and wished he had never been born.</p>
+
+<p>One day, when they had quarrelled for three
+weeks&mdash;all nine hundred and ninety-nine wives
+together&mdash;Suleiman-bin-Daoud went out for
+peace and quiet as usual; and among the orange
+trees he met Balkis the Most Beautiful, very
+sorrowful because Suleiman-bin-Daoud was so
+worried. And she said to him, 'O my Lord
+and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring upon your
+finger and show these Queens of Egypt and
+Mesopotamia and Persia and China that you are
+the great and terrible King.' But Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+shook his head and said, 'O my Lady
+and Delight of my Life, remember the Animal
+that came out of the sea and made me ashamed
+before all the animals in all the world because
+I showed off. Now, if I showed off before these
+Queens of Persia and Egypt and Abyssinia and
+China, merely because they worry me, I might
+be made even more ashamed than I have been.'</p>
+
+<p>And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, 'O my
+Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you
+do?'</p>
+
+<p>And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, 'O my Lady
+and Content of my Heart, I shall continue to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233"></a>[<a href="images/io-233.png">233</a>]</span>
+endure my fate at the hands of these nine hundred
+and ninety-nine Queens who vex me with
+their continual quarrelling.'</p>
+
+<p>So he went on between the lilies and the
+loquats and the roses and the cannas and the
+heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the
+garden, till he came to the great camphor-tree
+that was called the Camphor Tree of Suleiman-bin-Daoud.
+But Balkis hid among the tall
+irises and the spotted bamboos and the red lillies
+behind the camphor-tree, so as to be near her
+own true love, Suleiman-bin-Daoud.</p>
+
+<p>Presently two Butterflies flew under the tree,
+quarrelling.</p>
+
+<p>Suleiman-bin-Daoud heard one say to the
+other, 'I wonder at your presumption in talking
+like this to me. Don't you know that if I
+stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's
+Palace and this garden here would immediately
+vanish in a clap of thunder.'</p>
+
+<p>Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine
+hundred and ninety-nine bothersome wives, and
+laughed, till the camphor-tree shook, at the
+Butterfly's boast. And he held out his finger
+and said, 'Little man, come here.'</p>
+
+<p>The Butterfly was dreadfully frightened, but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234"></a>[<a href="images/io-234.png">234</a>]</span>
+he managed to fly up to the hand of Suleiman-bin-Daoud,
+and clung there, fanning himself.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud bent his head and whispered
+very softly, 'Little man, you know that all your
+stamping wouldn't bend one blade of grass.
+What made you tell that awful fib to your wife?&mdash;for
+doubtless she is your wife.'</p>
+
+<p>The Butterfly looked at Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+and saw the most wise King's eye twinkle like
+stars on a frosty night, and he picked up his
+courage with both wings, and he put his head on
+one side and said, 'O King, live for ever. She
+<i>is</i> my wife; and you know what wives are like.'</p>
+
+<p>Suleiman-bin-Daoud smiled in his beard and
+said, 'Yes, <i>I</i> know, little brother.'</p>
+
+<p>'One must keep them in order somehow,'
+said the Butterfly, 'and she has been quarrelling
+with me all the morning. I said that to
+quiet her.'</p>
+
+<p>And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, 'May it quiet
+her. Go back to your wife, little brother, and
+let me hear what you say.'</p>
+
+<p>Back flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was
+all of a twitter behind a leaf, and she said, 'He
+heard you! Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself heard
+you!'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235"></a>[<a href="images/io-235.png">235</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'Heard me!' said the Butterfly. 'Of course
+he did. I meant him to hear me.'</p>
+
+<p>'And what did he say? Oh, what did
+he say?'</p>
+
+<p>'Well,' said the Butterfly, fanning himself
+most importantly, 'between you and me, my
+dear&mdash;of course I don't blame him, because his
+Palace must have cost a great deal and the
+oranges are just ripening,&mdash;he asked me not to
+stamp, and I promised I wouldn't.'</p>
+
+<p>'Gracious!' said his wife, and sat quite
+quiet; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud laughed till the
+tears ran down his face at the impudence of the
+bad little Butterfly.</p>
+
+<p>Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind
+the tree among the red lilies and smiled to herself,
+for she had heard all this talk. She thought,
+'If I am wise I can yet save my Lord from the
+persecutions of these quarrelsome Queens,' and
+she held out her finger and whispered softly to
+the Butterfly's Wife, 'Little woman, come here.'
+Up flew the Butterfly's Wife, very frightened,
+and clung to Balkis's white hand.</p>
+
+<p>Balkis bent her beautiful head down and
+whispered, 'Little woman, do you believe what
+your husband has just said?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236"></a>[<a href="images/io-236.png">236</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>The Butterfly's Wife looked at Balkis, and
+saw the most beautiful Queen's eyes shining like
+deep pools with starlight on them, and she
+picked up her courage with both wings and said,
+'O Queen, be lovely for ever. <i>You</i> know
+what men-folk are like.'</p>
+
+<p>And the Queen Balkis, the Wise Balkis of
+Sheba, put her hand to her lips to hide a smile
+and said, 'Little sister, <i>I</i> know.'</p>
+
+<p>'They get angry,' said the Butterfly's Wife,
+fanning herself quickly, 'over nothing at all, but
+we must humour them, O Queen. They never
+mean half they say. If it pleases my husband
+to believe that I believe he can make Suleiman-bin-Daoud's
+Palace disappear by stamping his
+foot, I'm sure <i>I</i> don't care. He'll forget all
+about it to-morrow.'</p>
+
+<p>'Little sister,' said Balkis, 'you are quite
+right; but next time he begins to boast, take
+him at his word. Ask him to stamp, and see
+what will happen. <i>We</i> know what men-folk
+are like, don't we? He'll be very much
+ashamed.'</p>
+
+<p>Away flew the Butterfly's Wife to her
+husband, and in five minutes they were quarrelling
+worse than ever.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237"></a>[<a href="images/io-237.png">237</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>'Remember!' said the Butterfly. 'Remember
+what I can do if I stamp my foot.'</p>
+
+<p>'I don't believe you one little bit,' said the
+Butterfly's Wife. 'I should very much like to
+see it done. Suppose you stamp now.'</p>
+
+<p>'I promised Suleiman-bin-Daoud that I
+wouldn't,' said the Butterfly, 'and I don't want
+to break my promise.'</p>
+
+<p>'It wouldn't matter if you did,' said his wife.
+'You couldn't bend a blade of grass with your
+stamping. I dare you to do it,' she said.
+'Stamp! Stamp! Stamp!'</p>
+
+<p>Suleiman-bin-Daoud, sitting under the camphor-tree,
+heard every word of this, and he
+laughed as he had never laughed in his life
+before. He forgot all about his Queens; he
+forgot all about the Animal that came out of the
+sea; he forgot about showing off. He just
+laughed with joy, and Balkis, on the other
+side of the tree, smiled because her own true
+love was so joyful.</p>
+
+<p>Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy,
+came whirling back under the shadow of the
+camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, 'She wants
+me to stamp! She wants to see what will
+happen, O Suleiman-bin-Daoud! You know I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238"></a>[<a href="images/io-238.png">238</a>]</span>
+can't do it, and now she'll never believe a word
+I say. She'll laugh at me to the end of
+my days!'</p>
+
+<p>'No, little brother,' said Suleiman-bin-Daoud,
+'she will never laugh at you again,' and
+he turned the ring on his finger&mdash;just for the
+little Butterfly's sake, not for the sake of showing
+off,&mdash;and, lo and behold, four huge Djinns came
+out of the earth!</p>
+
+<p>'Slaves,' said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, 'when
+this gentleman on my finger' (that was where the
+impudent Butterfly was sitting) 'stamps his left
+front forefoot you will make my Palace and
+these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder.
+When he stamps again you will bring them
+back carefully.'</p>
+
+<p>'Now, little brother,' he said, 'go back to
+your wife and stamp all you've a mind to.'</p>
+
+<p>Away flew the Butterfly to his wife, who
+was crying, 'I dare you to do it! I dare you
+to do it! Stamp! Stamp now! Stamp!'
+Balkis saw the four vast Djinns stoop down to
+the four corners of the gardens with the Palace
+in the middle, and she clapped her hands softly
+and said, 'At last Suleiman-bin-Daoud will do
+for the sake of a Butterfly what he ought to have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239"></a>[<a href="images/io-239.png">239</a>]</span>
+done long ago for his own sake, and the
+quarrelsome Queens will be frightened!'</p>
+
+<p>Then the Butterfly stamped. The Djinns
+jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand
+miles into the air: there was a most awful
+thunder-clap, and everything grew inky-black.
+The Butterfly's Wife fluttered about in the dark,
+crying, 'Oh, I'll be good! I'm so sorry I spoke.
+Only bring the gardens back, my dear darling
+husband, and I'll never contradict again.'</p>
+
+<p>The Butterfly was nearly as frightened as his
+wife, and Suleiman-bin-Daoud laughed so much
+that it was several minutes before he found breath
+enough to whisper to the Butterfly, 'Stamp
+again, little brother. Give me back my Palace,
+most great magician.'</p>
+
+<p>'Yes, give him back his Palace,' said the
+Butterfly's Wife, still flying about in the dark
+like a moth. 'Give him back his Palace, and
+don't let's have any more horrid magic.'</p>
+
+<p>'Well, my dear,' said the Butterfly as bravely
+as he could, 'you see what your nagging has
+led to. Of course it doesn't make any difference
+to <i>me</i>&mdash;I'm used to this kind of thing&mdash;but as
+a favour to you and to Suleiman-bin-Daoud I
+don't mind putting things right.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240"></a>[<a href="images/io-240.png">240</a>]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;">
+<img src="images/gs61.png" width="345" height="500" alt="This is the picture of the four gull-winged Djinns lifting up Suleiman-bin-Daoud&#39;s Palace the very minute after the Butterfly had stamped." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='caption2'><span class="smcap">This</span> is the picture of the four gull-winged Djinns lifting up Suleiman-bin-Daoud's
+Palace the very minute after the Butterfly had stamped. The
+Palace and the gardens and everything came up in one piece like a board,
+and they left a big hole in the ground all full of dust and smoke. If you
+look in the corner, close to the thing that looks like a lion, you will see
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud with his magic stick and the two Butterflies behind
+him. The thing that looks like a lion is really a lion carved in stone, and
+the thing that looks like a milk-can is really a piece of a temple or a house
+or something. Suleiman-bin-Daoud stood there so as to be out of the way
+of the dust and the smoke when the Djinns lifted up the Palace. I don't
+know the Djinns' names. They were servants of Suleiman-bin-Daoud's
+magic ring, and they changed about every day. They were just common
+gull-winged Djinns.<br />
+
+<p>The thing at the bottom is a picture of a very friendly Djinn called
+Akraig. He used to feed the little fishes in the sea three times a day,
+and his wings were made of pure copper. I put him in to show you what
+a nice Djinn is like. He did not help to lift the Palace. He was busy
+feeding little fishes in the Arabian Sea when it happened.</p></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243"></a>[<a href="images/io-243.png">243</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>So he stamped once more, and that instant
+the Djinns let down the Palace and the gardens,
+without even a bump. The sun shone on the
+dark-green orange leaves; the fountains played
+among the pink Egyptian lilies; the birds went
+on singing, and the Butterfly's Wife lay on her
+side under the camphor-tree waggling her
+wings and panting, 'Oh, I'll be good! I'll
+be good!'</p>
+
+<p>Suleiman-bin-Daoud could hardly speak for
+laughing. He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy,
+and shook his finger at the Butterfly
+and said, 'O great wizard, what is the sense of
+returning to me my Palace if at the same time
+you slay me with mirth!'</p>
+
+<p>Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine
+hundred and ninety-nine Queens ran out of the
+Palace shrieking and shouting and calling for
+their babies. They hurried down the great
+marble steps below the fountain, one hundred
+abreast, and the Most Wise Balkis went statelily
+forward to meet them and said, 'What is your
+trouble, O Queens?'</p>
+
+<p>They stood on the marble steps one hundred
+abreast and shouted, '<i>What</i> is our trouble?
+We were living peacefully in our golden palace,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244"></a>[<a href="images/io-244.png">244</a>]</span>
+as is our custom, when upon a sudden the
+Palace disappeared, and we were left sitting in a
+thick and noisome darkness; and it thundered,
+and Djinns and Afrits moved about in the
+darkness! <i>That</i> is our trouble, O Head Queen,
+and we are most extremely troubled on account
+of that trouble, for it was a troublesome trouble,
+unlike any trouble we have known.'</p>
+
+<p>Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen&mdash;Suleiman-bin-Daoud's
+Very Best Beloved&mdash;Queen
+that was of Sheba and Sabie and the
+Rivers of the Gold of the South&mdash;from the Desert
+of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe&mdash;Balkis,
+almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+himself, said, 'It is nothing, O Queens!
+A Butterfly has made complaint against his wife
+because she quarrelled with him, and it has
+pleased our Lord Suleiman-bin-Daoud to teach
+her a lesson in low-speaking and humbleness,
+for that is counted a virtue among the wives of
+the butterflies.'</p>
+
+<p>Then up and spoke an Egyptian Queen&mdash;the
+daughter of a  <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Pharoah'">Pharaoh</ins>&mdash;and she said, 'Our
+Palace cannot be plucked up by the roots like
+a leek for the sake of a little insect. No!
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud must be dead, and what<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245"></a>[<a href="images/io-245.png">245</a>]</span>
+we heard and saw was the earth thundering and
+darkening at the news.'</p>
+
+<p>Then Balkis beckoned that bold Queen
+without looking at her, and said to her and to
+the others, 'Come and see.'</p>
+
+<p>They came down the marble steps, one
+hundred abreast, and beneath his camphor-tree,
+still weak with laughing, they saw the
+Most Wise King Suleiman-bin-Daoud rocking
+back and forth with a Butterfly on either hand,
+and they heard him say, 'O wife of my
+brother in the air, remember after this, to please
+your husband in all things, lest he be provoked
+to stamp his foot yet again; for he has said that
+he is used to this magic, and he is most eminently
+a great magician&mdash;one who steals away the very
+Palace of Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself. Go in
+peace, little folk!' And he kissed them on the
+wings, and they flew away.</p>
+
+<p>Then all the Queens except Balkis&mdash;the Most
+Beautiful and Splendid Balkis, who stood apart
+smiling&mdash;fell flat on their faces, for they said,
+'If these things are done when a Butterfly is
+displeased with his wife, what shall be done to us
+who have vexed our King with our loud-speaking
+and open quarrelling through many days?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246"></a>[<a href="images/io-246.png">246</a>]</span></p>
+
+<p>Then they put their veils over their heads, and
+they put their hands over their mouths, and they
+tiptoed back to the Palace most mousy-quiet.</p>
+
+<p>Then Balkis&mdash;The Most Beautiful and Excellent
+Balkis&mdash;went forward through the red
+lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and
+laid her hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud's
+shoulder and said, 'O my Lord and Treasure of
+my Soul, rejoice, for we have taught the Queens
+of Egypt and Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia
+and India and China with a great and a memorable
+teaching.'</p>
+
+<p>And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after
+the Butterflies where they played in the sunlight,
+said, 'O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity,
+when did this happen? For I have been jesting
+with a Butterfly ever since I came into the
+garden.' And he told Balkis what he had
+done.</p>
+
+<p>Balkis&mdash;The tender and Most Lovely Balkis&mdash;said,
+'O my Lord and Regent of my Existence,
+I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all.
+It was I who told the Butterfly's Wife to ask the
+Butterfly to stamp, because I hoped that for the
+sake of the jest my Lord would make some
+great magic and that the Queens would see it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247"></a>[<a href="images/io-247.png">247</a>]</span>
+and be frightened.' And she told him what the
+Queens had said and seen and thought.</p>
+
+<p>Then  <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Sueliman'">Suleiman</ins>-bin-Daoud rose up from his
+seat under the camphor-tree, and stretched his
+arms and rejoiced and said, 'O my Lady and
+Sweetener of my Days, know that if I had made
+a magic against my Queens for the sake of pride
+or anger, as I made that feast for all the animals,
+I should certainly have been put to shame. But
+by means of your wisdom I made the magic for
+the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little
+Butterfly, and&mdash;behold&mdash;it has also delivered me
+from the vexations of my vexatious wives! Tell
+me, therefore, O my Lady and Heart of my
+Heart, how did you come to be so wise?'</p>
+
+<p>And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall,
+looked up into Suleiman-bin-Daoud's eyes and
+put her head a little on one side, just like the
+Butterfly, and said, 'First, O my Lord, because
+I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because
+I know what women-folk are.'</p>
+
+<p>Then they went up to the Palace and lived
+happily ever afterwards.</p>
+
+<p>But wasn't it clever of Balkis?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249"></a>[<a href="images/io-249.png">249</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class='poem'><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">There</span> was never a Queen like Balkis,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From here to the wide world's end;</span><br />
+But Balkis talked to a butterfly<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As you would talk to a friend.</span><br />
+<br />
+There was never a King like Solomon,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Not since the world began;</span><br />
+But Solomon talked to a butterfly<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As a man would talk to a man.</span><br />
+<br />
+<i>She</i> was Queen of Sab&aelig;a&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And <i>he</i> was Asia's Lord&mdash;</span><br />
+But they both of 'em talked to butterflies<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When they took their walks abroad!</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250"></a>[<a href="images/io-250.png">250</a>]</span></p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/logo.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Emblem" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='copyright'><span class="smcap">The Country Life Press<br />
+Garden City, N. Y.</span></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3>
+<p>Obvious punctuation errors repaired.</p>
+<p>Not being able to ascertain which words were Kipling being clever and which were
+his printer's creativity, all spelling anomalies except the few glaringly obvious ones as noted below
+have been retained. For example, "He married ever so many wifes" was retained on page 227.</p>
+<p>Page 159, caption "19" was added to illustration.</p><p>The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'apprear'">appear</ins>.</p></div>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Just So Stories
+
+Author: Rudyard Kipling
+
+Illustrator: Joseph M. Gleeson
+
+Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32488]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JUST SO STORIES ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Suzanne Shell, Emmy and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was
+produced from images generously made available by The
+Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JUST SO STORIES]
+
+[Illustration: How the Whale Got His Throat]
+
+Transcriber's Note: Not being able to ascertain which words were Kipling
+being clever and which were his printer's creativity, all spelling
+anomalies except the few glaringly obvious ones noted at the end have
+been retained. For example, "He married ever so many wifes" was retained
+on page 227. For the HTML version, the page images have been included so
+that the reader may make comparisons.
+
+
+
+
+JVST SO STORIES
+
+BY RVDYARD KIPLING
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Pictures by Joseph M. Gleeson_
+
+          Doubleday Page & Company
+          1912
+
+
+
+
+          Copyright, 1912, by Rudyard Kipling
+
+          "Just So Stories," have also been copyrighted
+          separately as follows: How the Whale Got His Tiny
+          Throat. Copyright, 1897, by the Century Company.
+          How the Camel Got His Hump. Copyright, 1897, by
+          the Century Company. How the Rhinoceros Got His
+          Wrinkly Skin. Copyright, 1898, by the Century
+          Company. The Elephant's Child. Copyright, 1900, by
+          Rudyard Kipling; Copyright, 1900, by the Curtis
+          Publishing Company. The Beginning of the
+          Armadillos. Copyright, 1900, by Rudyard Kipling.
+          The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo. Copyright, 1900
+          by Rudyard Kipling. How the Leopard Got His Spots,
+          Copyright, 1901, by Rudyard Kipling. How the First
+          Letter Was Written. Copyright, 1901, by Rudyard
+          Kipling. The Cat That Walked by Himself,
+          Copyright, 1902, by Rudyard Kipling.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                     PAGE
+
+          How the Whale Got His Throat                  1
+
+          How the Camel Got His Hump                   15
+
+          How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin              29
+
+          How the Leopard Got His Spots                43
+
+          The Elephant's Child                         63
+
+          The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo            85
+
+          The Beginning of the Armadillos             101
+
+          How the First Letter was Written            123
+
+          How the Alphabet was Made                   145
+
+          The Crab that Played with the Sea           171
+
+          The Cat that Walked by Himself              197
+
+          The Butterfly that Stamped                  225
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT
+
+
+IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and
+he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the
+dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the
+mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All
+the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth--so! Till
+at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a
+small 'Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale's right ear, so
+as to be out of harm's way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and
+said, 'I'm hungry.' 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.'
+
+'Then fetch me some,' said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with
+his tail.
+
+'One at a time is enough,' said the 'Stute Fish. 'If you swim to
+latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will
+find, sitting _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the sea, with nothing
+on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must
+_not_ forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one
+shipwrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity.'
+
+So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty
+West, as fast as he could swim, and _on_ a raft, _in_ the middle of the
+sea, _with_ nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a
+pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best
+Beloved), _and_ a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked
+Mariner, trailing his toes in the water. (He had his mummy's leave to
+paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity.)
+
+Then the Whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly
+touched his tail, and he swallowed the shipwrecked Mariner, and the raft
+he was sitting on, and his blue canvas breeches, and the suspenders
+(which you _must_ not forget), _and_ the jack-knife--He swallowed them
+all down into his warm, dark, inside cupboards, and then he smacked his
+lips--so, and turned round three times on his tail.
+
+But as soon as the Mariner, who was a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity, found himself truly inside the Whale's
+warm, dark, inside cupboards, he stumped and he jumped and he thumped
+and he bumped, and he pranced and he danced, and he banged and he
+clanged, and he hit and he bit, and he leaped and he creeped, and he
+prowled and he howled, and he hopped and he dropped, and he cried and
+he sighed, and he crawled and he bawled, and he stepped and he lepped,
+and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn't, and the Whale felt most
+unhappy indeed. (_Have_ you forgotten the suspenders?)
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Whale swallowing the Mariner
+with his infinite-resource-and-sagacity, and the raft and the jack-knife
+_and_ his suspenders, which you must _not_ forget. The buttony-things
+are the Mariner's suspenders, and you can see the knife close by them.
+He is sitting on the raft, but it has tilted up sideways, so you don't
+see much of it. The whity thing by the Mariner's left hand is a piece of
+wood that he was trying to row the raft with when the Whale came along.
+The piece of wood is called the jaws-of-a-gaff. The Mariner left it
+outside when he went in. The Whale's name was Smiler, and the Mariner
+was called Mr. Henry Albert Bivvens, A.B. The little 'Stute Fish is
+hiding under the Whale's tummy, or else I would have drawn him. The
+reason that the sea looks so ooshy-skooshy is because the Whale is
+sucking it all into his mouth so as to suck in Mr. Henry Albert Bivvens
+and the raft and the jack-knife and the suspenders. You must never
+forget the suspenders.]
+
+So he said to the 'Stute Fish, 'This man is very nubbly, and besides
+he is making me hiccough. What shall I do?'
+
+'Tell him to come out,' said the 'Stute Fish.
+
+So the Whale called down his own throat to the shipwrecked Mariner,
+'Come out and behave yourself. I've got the hiccoughs.'
+
+'Nay, nay!' said the Mariner. 'Not so, but far otherwise. Take me to my
+natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and I'll think about it.'
+And he began to dance more than ever.
+
+'You had better take him home,' said the 'Stute Fish to the Whale. 'I
+ought to have warned you that he is a man of
+infinite-resource-and-sagacity.'
+
+[Illustration: HERE is the Whale looking for the little 'Stute Fish, who
+is hiding under the Door-sills of the Equator. The little 'Stute Fish's
+name was Pingle. He is hiding among the roots of the big seaweed that
+grows in front of the Doors of the Equator. I have drawn the Doors of
+the Equator. They are shut. They are always kept shut, because a door
+ought always to be kept shut. The ropy-thing right across is the Equator
+itself; and the things that look like rocks are the two giants Moar and
+Koar, that keep the Equator in order. They drew the shadow-pictures on
+the doors of the Equator, and they carved all those twisty fishes under
+the Doors. The beaky-fish are called beaked Dolphins, and the other fish
+with the queer heads are called Hammer-headed Sharks. The Whale never
+found the little 'Stute Fish till he got over his temper, and then they
+became good friends again.]
+
+So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his
+tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the
+Mariner's natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed
+half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and
+said, 'Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations
+on the _Fitch_burg Road;' and just as he said 'Fitch' the Mariner walked
+out of his mouth. But while the Whale had been swimming, the Mariner,
+who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, had taken his
+jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running
+criss-cross, and he had tied it firm with his suspenders (_now_ you know
+why you were not to forget the suspenders!), and he dragged that grating
+good and tight into the Whale's throat, and there it stuck! Then he
+recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard it, I will
+now proceed to relate--
+
+          By means of a grating
+          I have stopped your ating.
+
+For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an. And he stepped out on the
+shingle, and went home to his mother, who had given him leave to trail
+his toes in the water; and he married and lived happily ever afterward.
+So did the Whale. But from that day on, the grating in his throat, which
+he could neither cough up nor swallow down, prevented him eating
+anything except very, very small fish; and that is the reason why whales
+nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls.
+
+The small 'Stute Fish went and hid himself in the mud under the
+Door-sills of the Equator. He was afraid that the Whale might be angry
+with him.
+
+The Sailor took the jack-knife home. He was wearing the blue canvas
+breeches when he walked out on the shingle. The suspenders were left
+behind, you see, to tie the grating with; and that is the end of _that_
+tale.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          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!'
+
+[Illustration: How the Camel Got His Hump]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP
+
+
+NOW this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump.
+
+In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the
+Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he
+lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work;
+and besides, he was a Howler himself. So he ate sticks and thorns and
+tamarisks and milkweed and prickles, most 'scruciating idle; and when
+anybody spoke to him he said 'Humph!' Just 'Humph!' and no more.
+
+Presently the Horse came to him on Monday morning, with a saddle on his
+back and a bit in his mouth, and said, 'Camel, O Camel, come out and
+trot like the rest of us.'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Horse went away and told the Man.
+
+Presently the Dog came to him, with a stick in his mouth, and said,
+'Camel, O Camel, come and fetch and carry like the rest of us.'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Dog went away and told the Man.
+
+Presently the Ox came to him, with the yoke on his neck and said,
+'Camel, O Camel, come and plough like the rest of us.'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Ox went away and told the Man.
+
+At the end of the day the Man called the Horse and the Dog and the Ox
+together, and said, 'Three, O Three, I'm very sorry for you (with the
+world so new-and-all); but that Humph-thing in the Desert can't work, or
+he would have been here by now, so I am going to leave him alone, and
+you must work double-time to make up for it.'
+
+That made the Three very angry (with the world so new-and-all), and
+they held a palaver, and an _indaba_, and a _punchayet_, and a pow-wow
+on the edge of the Desert; and the Camel came chewing milkweed _most_
+'scruciating idle, and laughed at them. Then he said 'Humph!' and went
+away again.
+
+Presently there came along the Djinn in charge of All Deserts, rolling
+in a cloud of dust (Djinns always travel that way because it is Magic),
+and he stopped to palaver and pow-pow with the Three.
+
+'Djinn of All Deserts,' said the Horse, '_is_ it right for any one to be
+idle, with the world so new-and-all?'
+
+'Certainly not,' said the Djinn.
+
+'Well,' said the Horse, 'there's a thing in the middle of your Howling
+Desert (and he's a Howler himself) with a long neck and long legs, and
+he hasn't done a stroke of work since Monday morning. He won't trot.'
+
+'Whew!' said the Djinn, whistling, 'that's my Camel, for all the gold in
+Arabia! What does he say about it?'
+
+'He says "Humph!"' said the Dog; 'and he won't fetch and carry.'
+
+'Does he say anything else?'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Djinn making the beginnings
+of the Magic that brought the Humph to the Camel. First he drew a line
+in the air with his finger, and it became solid; and then he made a
+cloud, and then he made an egg--you can see them both at the bottom of
+the picture--and then there was a magic pumpkin that turned into a big
+white flame. Then the Djinn took his magic fan and fanned that flame
+till the flame turned into a magic by itself. It was a good Magic and a
+very kind Magic really, though it had to give the Camel a Humph because
+the Camel was lazy. The Djinn in charge of All Deserts was one of the
+nicest of the Djinns, so he would never do anything really unkind.]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'Only "Humph!"; and he won't plough,' said the Ox.
+
+'Very good,' said the Djinn. 'I'll humph him if you will kindly wait a
+minute.'
+
+The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across
+the desert, and found the Camel most 'scruciatingly idle, looking at his
+own reflection in a pool of water.
+
+'My long and bubbling friend,' said the Djinn, 'what's this I hear of
+your doing no work, with the world so new-and-all?'
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel.
+
+The Djinn sat down, with his chin in his hand, and began to think a
+Great Magic, while the Camel looked at his own reflection in the pool of
+water.
+
+'You've given the Three extra work ever since Monday morning, all on
+account of your 'scruciating idleness,' said the Djinn; and he went on
+thinking Magics, with his chin in his hand.
+
+'Humph!' said the Camel.
+
+'I shouldn't say that again if I were you,' said the Djinn; 'you might
+say it once too often. Bubbles, I want you to work.'
+
+[Illustration: HERE is the picture of the Djinn in charge of All Deserts
+guiding the Magic with his magic fan. The camel is eating a twig of
+acacia, and he has just finished saying "humph" once too often (the
+Djinn told him he would), and so the Humph is coming. The long
+towelly-thing growing out of the thing like an onion is the Magic, and
+you can see the Humph on its shoulder. The Humph fits on the flat part
+of the Camel's back. The Camel is too busy looking at his own beautiful
+self in the pool of water to know what is going to happen to him.
+
+Underneath the truly picture is a picture of the World-so-new-and-all.
+There are two smoky volcanoes in it, some other mountains and some
+stones and a lake and a black island and a twisty river and a lot of
+other things, as well as a Noah's Ark. I couldn't draw all the deserts
+that the Djinn was in charge of, so I only drew one, but it is a most
+deserty desert.]
+
+And the Camel said 'Humph!' again; but no sooner had he said it than
+he saw his back, that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing up into
+a great big lolloping humph.
+
+'Do you see that?' said the Djinn. 'That's your very own humph that
+you've brought upon your very own self by not working. To-day is
+Thursday, and you've done no work since Monday, when the work began. Now
+you are going to work.'
+
+'How can I,' said the Camel, 'with this humph on my back?'
+
+'That's made a-purpose,' said the Djinn, 'all because you missed those
+three days. You will be able to work now for three days without eating,
+because you can live on your humph; and don't you ever say I never did
+anything for you. Come out of the Desert and go to the Three, and
+behave. Humph yourself!'
+
+And the Camel humphed himself, humph and all, and went away to join
+the Three. And from that day to this the Camel always wears a humph (we
+call it 'hump' now, not to hurt his feelings); but he has never yet
+caught up with the three days that he missed at the beginning of the
+world, and he has never yet learned how to behave.
+
+
+          THE Camel's hump is an ugly lump
+            Which well you may see at the Zoo;
+          But uglier yet is the hump we get
+            From having too little to do.
+
+          Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,
+          If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
+                We get the hump--
+                Cameelious hump--
+          The hump that is black and blue!
+
+          We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
+            And a snarly-yarly voice.
+          We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
+            At our bath and our boots and our toys;
+
+          And there ought to be a corner for me
+          (And I know there is one for you)
+                When we get the hump--
+                Cameelious hump--
+          The hump that is black and blue!
+
+          The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
+            Or frowst with a book by the fire;
+          But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
+            And dig till you gently perspire;
+
+          And then you will find that the sun and the wind,
+          And the Djinn of the Garden too,
+                Have lifted the hump--
+                The horrible hump--
+          The hump that is black and blue!
+
+          I get it as well as you-oo-oo--
+          If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo--
+                We all get hump--
+                Cameelious hump--
+          Kiddies and grown-ups too!
+
+[Illustration: How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN
+
+
+ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red
+Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were
+reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Parsee lived by the
+Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of
+the kind that you must particularly never touch. And one day he took
+flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made
+himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick. It was
+indeed a Superior Comestible (_that's_ magic), and he put it on the
+stove because _he_ was allowed to cook on that stove, and he baked it
+and he baked it till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental.
+But just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the
+Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose,
+two piggy eyes, and few manners. In those days the Rhinoceros's skin
+fitted him quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anywhere. He looked
+exactly like a Noah's Ark Rhinoceros, but of course much bigger. All the
+same, he had no manners then, and he has no manners now, and he never
+will have any manners. He said, 'How!' and the Parsee left that cake and
+climbed to the top of a palm tree with nothing on but his hat, from
+which the rays of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental
+splendour. And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the
+cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his
+nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate
+and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of
+Mazanderan, Socotra, and the Promontories of the Larger Equinox. Then
+the Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put the stove on its legs
+and recited the following _Sloka_, which, as you have not heard, I will
+now proceed to relate:--
+
+          Them that takes cakes
+          Which the Parsee-man bakes
+          Makes dreadful mistakes.
+
+And there was a great deal more in that than you would think.
+
+_Because_, five weeks later, there was a heat-wave in the Red Sea, and
+everybody took off all the clothes they had. The Parsee took off his
+hat; but the Rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his
+shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe. In those days it
+buttoned underneath with three buttons and looked like a waterproof. He
+said nothing whatever about the Parsee's cake, because he had eaten it
+all; and he never had any manners, then, since, or henceforward. He
+waddled straight into the water and blew bubbles through his nose,
+leaving his skin on the beach.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Parsee beginning to eat his
+cake on the Uninhabited Island in the Red Sea on a very hot day; and of
+the Rhinoceros coming down from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior,
+which, as you can truthfully see, is all rocky. The Rhinoceros's skin is
+quite smooth, and the three buttons that button it up are underneath, so
+you can't see them. The squiggly things on the Parsee's hat are the rays
+of the sun reflected in more-than-oriental splendour, because if I had
+drawn real rays they would have filled up all the picture. The cake has
+currants in it; and the wheel-thing lying on the sand in front belonged
+to one of Pharaoh's chariots when he tried to cross the Red Sea. The
+Parsee found it, and kept it to play with. The Parsee's name was
+Pestonjee Bomonjee, and the Rhinoceros was called Strorks, because he
+breathed through his mouth instead of his nose. I wouldn't ask anything
+about the cooking-stove if _I_ were you.]
+
+Presently the Parsee came by and found the skin, and he smiled one
+smile that ran all round his face two times. Then he danced three times
+round the skin and rubbed his hands. Then he went to his camp and filled
+his hat with cake-crumbs, for the Parsee never ate anything but cake,
+and never swept out his camp. He took that skin, and he shook that skin,
+and he scrubbed that skin, and he rubbed that skin just as full of old,
+dry, stale, tickly cake-crumbs and some burned currants as ever it could
+_possibly_ hold. Then he climbed to the top of his palm-tree and waited
+for the Rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee sitting in his
+palm-tree and watching the Rhinoceros Strorks bathing near the beach
+of the Altogether Uninhabited Island after Strorks had taken off his
+skin. The Parsee has put the cake-crumbs into the skin, and he is
+smiling to think how they will tickle Strorks when Strorks puts it on
+again. The skin is just under the rocks below the palm-tree in a cool
+place; that is why you can't see it. The Parsee is wearing a new
+more-than-oriental-splendour hat of the sort that Parsees wear; and he
+has a knife in his hand to cut his name on palm-trees. The black things
+on the islands out at sea are bits of ships that got wrecked going down
+the Red Sea; but all the passengers were saved and went home.
+
+The black thing in the water close to the shore is not a wreck at all.
+It is Strorks the Rhinoceros bathing without his skin. He was just as
+black underneath his skin as he was outside. I wouldn't ask anything
+about the cooking-stove if _I_ were you.]
+
+And the Rhinoceros did. He buttoned it up with the three buttons,
+and it tickled like cake-crumbs in bed. Then he wanted to scratch, but
+that made it worse; and then he lay down on the sands and rolled and
+rolled and rolled, and every time he rolled the cake-crumbs tickled him
+worse and worse and worse. Then he ran to the palm-tree and rubbed and
+rubbed and rubbed himself against it. He rubbed so much and so hard that
+he rubbed his skin into a great fold over his shoulders, and another
+fold underneath, where the buttons used to be (but he rubbed the buttons
+off), and he rubbed some more folds over his legs. And it spoiled his
+temper, but it didn't make the least difference to the cake-crumbs. They
+were inside his skin and they tickled. So he went home, very angry
+indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros
+has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the
+cake-crumbs inside.
+
+But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree, wearing his hat, from which
+the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour,
+packed up his cooking-stove, and went away in the direction of Orotavo,
+Amygdala, the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo, and the Marshes of Sonaput.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          THIS Uninhabited Island
+              Is off Cape Gardafui,
+          By the Beaches of Socotra
+              And the Pink Arabian Sea:
+          But it's hot--too hot from Suez
+              For the likes of you and me
+                  Ever to go
+                  In a P. and O.
+              And call on the Cake-Parsee!
+
+[Illustration: How the Leopard Got His Spots]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS
+
+
+IN the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard
+lived in a place called the High Veldt. 'Member it wasn't the Low Veldt,
+or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the 'sclusively bare, hot,
+shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and
+'sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass. The Giraffe and the Zebra
+and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they
+were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over; but the Leopard, he was
+the 'sclusivest sandiest-yellowish-brownest of them all--a
+greyish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast, and he matched the
+'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one
+hair. This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of
+them; for he would lie down by a 'sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish
+stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland
+or the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would
+surprise them out of their jumpsome lives. He would indeed! And, also,
+there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows (a 'sclusively
+greyish-brownish-yellowish man he was then), who lived on the High Veldt
+with the Leopard; and the two used to hunt together--the Ethiopian with
+his bows and arrows, and the Leopard 'sclusively with his teeth and
+claws--till the Giraffe and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga and
+all the rest of them didn't know which way to jump, Best Beloved. They
+didn't indeed!
+
+After a long time--things lived for ever so long in those days--they
+learned to avoid anything that looked like a Leopard or an Ethiopian;
+and bit by bit--the Giraffe began it, because his legs were the
+longest--they went away from the High Veldt. They scuttled for days and
+days and days till they came to a great forest, 'sclusively full of
+trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows, and there
+they hid: and after another long time, what with standing half in the
+shade and half out of it, and what with the slippery-slidy shadows of
+the trees falling on them, the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew
+stripy, and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker, with little wavy grey
+lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk; and so, though you could
+hear them and smell them, you could very seldom see them, and then only
+when you knew precisely where to look. They had a beautiful time in the
+'sclusively speckly-spickly shadows of the forest, while the Leopard and
+the Ethiopian ran about over the 'sclusively greyish-yellowish-reddish
+High Veldt outside, wondering where all their breakfasts and their
+dinners and their teas had gone. At last they were so hungry that they
+ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits, the Leopard and the Ethiopian,
+and then they had the Big Tummy-ache, both together; and then they met
+Baviaan--the dog-headed, barking Baboon, who is Quite the Wisest Animal
+in All South Africa.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is Wise Baviaan, the dog-headed Baboon, Who is
+Quite the Wisest Animal in All South Africa. I have drawn him from a
+statue that I made up out of my own head, and I have written his name on
+his belt and on his shoulder and on the thing he is sitting on. I have
+written it in what is not called Coptic and Hieroglyphic and Cuneiformic
+and Bengalic and Burmic and Hebric, all because he is so wise. He is not
+beautiful, but he is very wise; and I should like to paint him with
+paint-box colours, but I am not allowed. The umbrella-ish thing about
+his head is his Conventional Mane.]
+
+Said Leopard to Baviaan (and it was a very hot day), 'Where has all the
+game gone?'
+
+And Baviaan winked. _He_ knew.
+
+Said the Ethiopian to Baviaan, 'Can you tell me the present habitat of
+the aboriginal Fauna?' (That meant just the same thing, but the
+Ethiopian always used long words. He was a grown-up.)
+
+And Baviaan winked. _He_ knew.
+
+Then said Baviaan, 'The game has gone into other spots; and my advice to
+you, Leopard, is to go into other spots as soon as you can.'
+
+And the Ethiopian said, 'That is all very fine, but I wish to know
+whither the aboriginal Fauna has migrated.'
+
+Then said Baviaan, 'The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora
+because it was high time for a change; and my advice to you, Ethiopian,
+is to change as soon as you can.'
+
+That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian, but they set off to look
+for the aboriginal Flora, and presently, after ever so many days, they
+saw a great, high, tall forest full of tree trunks all 'sclusively
+speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and
+hatched and cross-hatched with shadows. (Say that quickly aloud, and you
+will see how _very_ shadowy the forest must have been.)
+
+'What is this,' said the Leopard, 'that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet
+so full of little pieces of light?'
+
+'I don't know,' said the Ethiopian, 'but it ought to be the aboriginal
+Flora. I can smell Giraffe, and I can hear Giraffe, but I can't see
+Giraffe.'
+
+'That's curious,' said the Leopard. 'I suppose it is because we have
+just come in out of the sunshine. I can smell Zebra, and I can hear
+Zebra, but I can't see Zebra.'
+
+'Wait a bit,' said the Ethiopian. 'It's a long time since we've hunted
+'em. Perhaps we've forgotten what they were like.'
+
+'Fiddle!' said the Leopard. 'I remember them perfectly on the High
+Veldt, especially their marrow-bones. Giraffe is about seventeen feet
+high, of a 'sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and
+Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a 'sclusively grey-fawn
+colour from head to heel.'
+
+'Umm,' said the Ethiopian, looking into the speckly-spickly shadows of
+the aboriginal Flora-forest. 'Then they ought to show up in this dark
+place like ripe bananas in a smoke-house.'
+
+But they didn't. The Leopard and the Ethiopian hunted all day; and
+though they could smell them and hear them, they never saw one of them.
+
+'For goodness' sake,' said the Leopard at tea-time, 'let us wait till it
+gets dark. This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal.'
+
+So they waited till dark, and then the Leopard heard something breathing
+sniffily in the starlight that fell all stripy through the branches, and
+he jumped at the noise, and it smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra,
+and when he knocked it down it kicked like Zebra, but he couldn't see
+it. So he said, 'Be quiet, O you person without any form. I am going to
+sit on your head till morning, because there is something about you that
+I don't understand.'
+
+Presently he heard a grunt and a crash and a scramble, and the Ethiopian
+called out, 'I've caught a thing that I can't see. It smells like
+Giraffe, and it kicks like Giraffe, but it hasn't any form.'
+
+'Don't you trust it,' said the Leopard. 'Sit on its head till the
+morning--same as me. They haven't any form--any of 'em.'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So they sat down on them hard till bright morning-time, and then Leopard
+said, 'What have you at your end of the table, Brother?'
+
+The Ethiopian scratched his head and said, 'It ought to be 'sclusively a
+rich fulvous orange-tawny from head to heel, and it ought to be Giraffe;
+but it is covered all over with chestnut blotches. What have you at
+_your_ end of the table, Brother?'
+
+And the Leopard scratched his head and said, 'It ought to be 'sclusively
+a delicate greyish-fawn, and it ought to be Zebra; but it is covered all
+over with black and purple stripes. What in the world have you been
+doing to yourself, Zebra? Don't you know that if you were on the High
+Veldt I could see you ten miles off? You haven't any form.'
+
+'Yes,' said the Zebra, 'but this isn't the High Veldt. Can't you see?'
+
+'I can now,' said the Leopard. 'But I couldn't all yesterday. How is it
+done?'
+
+'Let us up,' said the Zebra, 'and we will show you.'
+
+They let the Zebra and the Giraffe get up; and Zebra moved away to some
+little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy, and Giraffe
+moved off to some tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy.
+
+'Now watch,' said the Zebra and the Giraffe. 'This is the way it's done.
+One--two--three! And where's your breakfast?'
+
+Leopard stared, and Ethiopian stared, but all they could see were stripy
+shadows and blotched shadows in the forest, but never a sign of Zebra
+and Giraffe. They had just walked off and hidden themselves in the
+shadowy forest.
+
+'Hi! Hi!' said the Ethiopian. 'That's a trick worth learning. Take a
+lesson by it, Leopard. You show up in this dark place like a bar of soap
+in a coal-scuttle.'
+
+'Ho! Ho!' said the Leopard. 'Would it surprise you very much to know
+that you show up in this dark place like a mustard-plaster on a sack of
+coals?'
+
+Well, calling names won't catch dinner, said the Ethiopian. 'The long
+and the little of it is that we don't match our backgrounds. I'm going
+to take Baviaan's advice. He told me I ought to change; and as I've
+nothing to change except my skin I'm going to change that.'
+
+'What to?' said the Leopard, tremendously excited.
+
+'To a nice working blackish-brownish colour, with a little purple in it,
+and touches of slaty-blue. It will be the very thing for hiding in
+hollows and behind trees.'
+
+So he changed his skin then and there, and the Leopard was more excited
+than ever; he had never seen a man change his skin before.
+
+'But what about me?' he said, when the Ethiopian had worked his last
+little finger into his fine new black skin.
+
+'You take Baviaan's advice too. He told you to go into spots.'
+
+'So I did,' said the Leopard. 'I went into other spots as fast as I
+could. I went into this spot with you, and a lot of good it has done
+me.'
+
+'Oh,' said the Ethiopian, 'Baviaan didn't mean spots in South Africa. He
+meant spots on your skin.'
+
+'What's the use of that?' said the Leopard.
+
+'Think of Giraffe,' said the Ethiopian. 'Or if you prefer stripes,
+think of Zebra. They find their spots and stripes give them perfect
+satisfaction.'
+
+'Umm,' said the Leopard. 'I wouldn't look like Zebra--not for ever so.'
+
+'Well, make up your mind,' said the Ethiopian, 'because I'd hate to go
+hunting without you, but I must if you insist on looking like a
+sun-flower against a tarred fence.'
+
+'I'll take spots, then,' said the Leopard; 'but don't make 'em too
+vulgar-big. I wouldn't look like Giraffe--not for ever so.'
+
+'I'll make 'em with the tips of my fingers,' said the Ethiopian.
+'There's plenty of black left on my skin still. Stand over!'
+
+Then the Ethiopian put his five fingers close together (there was plenty
+of black left on his new skin still) and pressed them all over the
+Leopard, and wherever the five fingers touched they left five little
+black marks, all close together. You can see them on any Leopard's skin
+you like, Best Beloved. Sometimes the fingers slipped and the marks got
+a little blurred; but if you look closely at any Leopard now you will
+see that there are always five spots--off five fat black finger-tips.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Leopard and the Ethiopian
+after they had taken Wise Baviaan's advice and the Leopard had gone
+into other spots and the Ethiopian had changed his skin. The Ethiopian
+was really a negro, and so his name was Sambo. The Leopard was
+called Spots, and he has been called Spots ever since. They are out
+hunting in the spickly-speckly forest, and they are looking for Mr.
+One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast. If you look a little you will see
+Mr. One-Two-Three not far away. The Ethiopian has hidden behind a
+splotchy-blotchy tree because it matches his skin, and the Leopard is
+lying beside a spickly-speckly bank of stones because it matches his
+spots. Mr. One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast is standing up eating
+leaves from a tall tree. This is really a puzzle-picture like 'Find the
+Cat.']
+
+'Now you _are_ a beauty!' said the Ethiopian. 'You can lie out on
+the bare ground and look like a heap of pebbles. You can lie out on the
+naked rocks and look like a piece of pudding-stone. You can lie out on a
+leafy branch and look like sunshine sifting through the leaves; and you
+can lie right across the centre of a path and look like nothing in
+particular. Think of that and purr!'
+
+'But if I'm all this,' said the Leopard, 'why didn't you go spotty too?'
+
+'Oh, plain black's best for a nigger,' said the Ethiopian. 'Now come
+along and we'll see if we can't get even with Mr.
+One-Two-Three-Where's-your-Breakfast!'
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+So they went away and lived happily ever afterward, Best Beloved. That
+is all.
+
+Oh, now and then you will hear grown-ups say, 'Can the Ethiopian
+change his skin or the Leopard his spots?' I don't think even grown-ups
+would keep on saying such a silly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopian
+hadn't done it once--do you? But they will never do it again, Best
+Beloved. They are quite contented as they are.
+
+
+      I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones,
+      'Let us melt into the landscape--just us two by our lones.'
+      People have come--in a carriage--calling. But Mummy is there....
+      Yes, I can go if you take me--Nurse says _she_ don't care.
+      Let's go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails!
+      Let's say things to the bunnies, and watch 'em skitter their tails!
+      Let's--oh, _anything_, daddy, so long as it's you and me,
+      And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!
+      Here's your boots (I've brought 'em), and here's your cap and stick,
+      And here's your pipe and tobacco. Oh, come along out of it--quick.
+
+[Illustration: The Elephant's Child]
+
+
+
+
+THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD
+
+
+IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no
+trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he
+could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things
+with it. But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's
+Child--who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked
+ever so many questions. _And_ he lived in Africa, and he filled all
+Africa with his 'satiable curtiosities. He asked his tall aunt, the
+Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the
+Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. He asked his tall uncle,
+the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe,
+spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of 'satiable
+curtiosity! He asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why her eyes were
+red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, spanked him with her broad,
+broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted
+just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy,
+hairy paw. And _still_ he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! He asked
+questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or
+touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. And still he was
+full of 'satiable curtiosity!
+
+One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this
+'satiable Elephant's Child asked a new fine question that he had never
+asked before. He asked, 'What does the Crocodile have for dinner?' Then
+everybody said, 'Hush!' in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him
+immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.
+
+By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting
+in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, 'My father has
+spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have
+spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity; and _still_ I want to know what
+the Crocodile has for dinner!'
+
+Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the
+great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees,
+and find out.'
+
+That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes,
+because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this
+'satiable Elephant's Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little
+short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple
+kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all
+his dear families, 'Good-bye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy
+Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the
+Crocodile has for dinner.' And they all spanked him once more for luck,
+though he asked them most politely to stop.
+
+Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating
+melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up.
+
+He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama's
+Country, and from Khama's Country he went east by north, eating melons
+all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green,
+greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as
+Kolokolo Bird had said.
+
+Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very
+week, and day, and hour, and minute, this 'satiable Elephant's Child had
+never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. It was all
+his 'satiable curtiosity.
+
+The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled
+round a rock.
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but have you seen
+such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'
+
+'_Have_ I seen a Crocodile?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in
+a voice of dretful scorn. 'What will you ask me next?'
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but could you kindly tell me
+what he has for dinner?'
+
+Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly
+from the rock, and spanked the Elephant's Child with his scalesome,
+flailsome tail.
+
+'That is odd,' said the Elephant's Child, 'because my father and my
+mother, and my uncle and my aunt, not to mention my other aunt, the
+Hippopotamus, and my other uncle, the Baboon, have all spanked me for my
+'satiable curtiosity--and I suppose this is the same thing.'
+
+So he said good-bye very politely to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake,
+and helped to coil him up on the rock again, and went on, a little warm,
+but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about,
+because he could not pick it up, till he trod on what he thought was a
+log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo
+River, all set about with fever-trees.
+
+But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile
+winked one eye--like this!
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but do you happen
+to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'
+
+Then the Crocodile winked the other eye, and lifted half his tail out of
+the mud; and the Elephant's Child stepped back most politely, because he
+did not wish to be spanked again.
+
+'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile. 'Why do you ask such
+things?'
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but my father has
+spanked me, my mother has spanked me, not to mention my tall aunt, the
+Ostrich, and my tall uncle, the Giraffe, who can kick ever so hard, as
+well as my broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my hairy uncle, the Baboon,
+_and_ including the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, with the scalesome,
+flailsome tail, just up the bank, who spanks harder than any of them;
+and _so_, if it's quite all the same to you, I don't want to be spanked
+any more.'
+
+'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile, 'for I am the Crocodile,'
+and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true.
+
+Then the Elephant's Child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled
+down on the bank and said, 'You are the very person I have been looking
+for all these long days. Will you please tell me what you have for
+dinner?'
+
+'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile, 'and I'll whisper.'
+
+Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's
+musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose,
+which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger
+than a boot, though much more useful.
+
+'I think,' said the Crocodile--and he said it between his teeth, like
+this--'I think to-day I will begin with Elephant's Child!'
+
+At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant's Child was much annoyed, and he
+said, speaking through his nose, like this, 'Led go! You are hurtig be!'
+
+Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake scuffled down from the bank and
+said, 'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly,
+pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in
+the large-pattern leather ulster' (and by this he meant the Crocodile)
+'will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack
+Robinson.'
+
+This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
+
+Then the Elephant's Child sat back on his little haunches, and pulled,
+and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch. And the Crocodile
+floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his
+tail, and _he_ pulled, and pulled, and pulled.
+
+And the Elephant's Child's nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant's
+Child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and
+pulled, and his nose kept on stretching; and the Crocodile threshed his
+tail like an oar, and _he_ pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and at each
+pull the Elephant's Child's nose grew longer and longer--and it hurt him
+hijjus!
+
+Then the Elephant's Child felt his legs slipping, and he said through
+his nose, which was now nearly five feet long, 'This is too butch for
+be!'
+
+Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake came down from the bank, and
+knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch round the Elephant's Child's
+hind legs, and said, 'Rash and inexperienced traveller, we will now
+seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do
+not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling man-of-war with the
+armour-plated upper deck' (and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the
+Crocodile), 'will permanently vitiate your future career.'
+
+That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
+
+So he pulled, and the Elephant's Child pulled, and the Crocodile
+pulled; but the Elephant's Child and the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
+pulled hardest; and at last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant's
+Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the
+Limpopo.
+
+Then the Elephant's Child sat down most hard and sudden; but first he
+was careful to say 'Thank you' to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake; and
+next he was kind to his poor pulled nose, and wrapped it all up in cool
+banana leaves, and hung it in the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo to
+cool.
+
+'What are you doing that for?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but my nose is badly out of
+shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink.'
+
+'Then you will have to wait a long time,' said the
+Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'Some people do not know what is good for
+them.'
+
+The Elephant's Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to
+shrink. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint.
+For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had
+pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have
+to-day.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the Elephant's Child having his nose pulled
+by the Crocodile. He is much surprised and astonished and hurt, and
+he is talking through his nose and saying, 'Led go! You are hurtig
+be!' He is pulling very hard, and so is the Crocodile; but the
+Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake is hurrying through the water to help the
+Elephant's Child. All that black stuff is the banks of the great
+grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (but I am not allowed to paint these
+pictures), and the bottly-tree with the twisty roots and the eight
+leaves is one of the fever-trees that grow there.
+
+Underneath the truly picture are shadows of African animals walking
+into an African ark. There are two lions, two ostriches, two oxen, two
+camels, two sheep, and two other things that look like rats, but I think
+they are rock-rabbits. They don't mean anything. I put them in because I
+thought they looked pretty. They would look very fine if I were allowed
+to paint them.]
+
+At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder,
+and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that
+fly dead with the end of it.
+
+''Vantage number one!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'You
+couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. Try and eat a little
+now.'
+
+Before he thought what he was doing the Elephant's Child put out his
+trunk and plucked a large bundle of grass, dusted it clean against his
+fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth.
+
+''Vantage number two!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'You
+couldn't have done that with a mear-smear nose. Don't you think the sun
+is very hot here?'
+
+'It is,' said the Elephant's Child, and before he thought what he was
+doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great
+grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a
+cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.
+
+''Vantage number three!' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 'You
+couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. Now how do you feel
+about being spanked again?'
+
+''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but I should not like it at
+all.'
+
+'How would you like to spank somebody?' said the
+Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
+
+'I should like it very much indeed,' said the Elephant's Child.
+
+'Well,' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, 'you will find that new
+nose of yours very useful to spank people with.'
+
+'Thank you,' said the Elephant's Child, 'I'll remember that; and now I
+think I'll go home to all my dear families and try.'
+
+So the Elephant's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking
+his trunk. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree,
+instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do. When he wanted grass
+he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he
+used to do. When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and
+used it as a fly-whisk; and he made himself a new, cool, slushy-squshy
+mud-cap whenever the sun was hot. When he felt lonely walking through
+Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than
+several brass bands. He went especially out of his way to find a broad
+Hippopotamus (she was no relation of his), and he spanked her very hard,
+to make sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake had spoken the truth
+about his new trunk. The rest of the time he picked up the melon rinds
+that he had dropped on his way to the Limpopo--for he was a Tidy
+Pachyderm.
+
+One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up
+his trunk and said, 'How do you do?' They were very glad to see him, and
+immediately said, 'Come here and be spanked for your 'satiable
+curtiosity.'
+
+'Pooh,' said the Elephant's Child. 'I don't think you peoples know
+anything about spanking; but _I_ do, and I'll show you.'
+
+Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head
+over heels.
+
+'O Bananas!' said they, 'where did you learn that trick, and what have
+you done to your nose?'
+
+'I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great
+grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,' said the Elephant's Child. 'I asked
+him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is just a picture of the Elephant's Child going
+to pull bananas off a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long
+trunk. I don't think it is a very nice picture; but I couldn't make it
+any better, because elephants and bananas are hard to draw. The streaky
+things behind the Elephant's Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere
+in Africa. The Elephant's Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the
+mud that he found there. I think it would look better if you painted the
+banana-tree green and the Elephant's Child red.]
+
+'It looks very ugly,' said his hairy uncle, the Baboon.
+
+'It does,' said the Elephant's Child. 'But it's very useful,' and he
+picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him
+into a hornet's nest.
+
+Then that bad Elephant's Child spanked all his dear families for a long
+time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. He pulled out his
+tall Ostrich aunt's tail-feathers; and he caught his tall uncle, the
+Giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush; and he
+shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and blew bubbles into her
+ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals; but he never let any
+one touch Kolokolo Bird.
+
+At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by
+one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo
+River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the
+Crocodile. When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever
+since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see,
+besides all those that you won't, have trunks precisely like the trunk
+of the 'satiable Elephant's Child.
+
+
+          I KEEP six honest serving-men;
+            (They taught me all I knew)
+          Their names are What and Where and When
+            And How and Where and Who.
+          I send them over land and sea,
+            I send them east and west;
+          But after they have worked for me,
+            _I_ give them all a rest.
+
+            _I_ let them rest from nine till five.
+          For I am busy then,
+            As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
+          For they are hungry men:
+            But different folk have different views;
+          I know a person small--
+            She keeps ten million serving-men,
+          Who get no rest at all!
+            She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs,
+          From the second she opens her eyes--
+            One million Hows, two million Wheres,
+          And seven million Whys!
+
+[Illustration: The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo]
+
+
+
+
+THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO
+
+
+NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different
+Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his
+pride was inordinate: he danced on an outcrop in the middle of
+Australia, and he went to the Little God Nqa.
+
+He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, 'Make me different from
+all other animals by five this afternoon.'
+
+Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sand-flat and shouted, 'Go away!'
+
+He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced
+on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Middle
+God Nquing.
+
+He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast, saying, 'Make me different
+from all other animals; make me, also, wonderfully popular by five this
+afternoon.'
+
+Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted, 'Go away!'
+
+He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced
+on a sandbank in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Big God
+Nqong.
+
+He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time, saying, 'Make me different
+from all other animals; make me popular and wonderfully run after by
+five this afternoon.'
+
+Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan and shouted, 'Yes, I
+will!'
+
+Nqong called Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusty in the
+sunshine, and showed him Kangaroo. Nqong said, 'Dingo! Wake up, Dingo!
+Do you see that gentleman dancing on an ashpit? He wants to be popular
+and very truly run after. Dingo, make him so!'
+
+Up jumped Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--and said, 'What, _that_ cat-rabbit?'
+
+Off ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a
+coal-scuttle,--ran after Kangaroo.
+
+Off went the proud Kangaroo on his four little legs like a bunny.
+
+This, O Beloved of mine, ends the first part of the tale!
+
+He ran through the desert; he ran through the mountains; he ran through
+the salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds; he ran through the blue
+gums; he ran through the spinifex; he ran till his front legs ached.
+
+He had to!
+
+Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--always hungry, grinning like a
+rat-trap, never getting nearer, never getting farther,--ran after
+Kangaroo.
+
+He had to!
+
+Still ran Kangaroo--Old Man Kangaroo. He ran through the ti-trees; he
+ran through the mulga; he ran through the long grass; he ran through the
+short grass; he ran through the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; he ran
+till his hind legs ached.
+
+He had to!
+
+[Illustration: THIS is a picture of Old Man Kangaroo when he was the
+Different Animal with four short legs. I have drawn him grey and woolly,
+and you can see that he is very proud because he has a wreath of flowers
+in his hair. He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in
+the middle of Australia at six o'clock before breakfast. You can see
+that it is six o'clock, because the sun is just getting up. The thing
+with the ears and the open mouth is Little God Nqa. Nqa is very much
+surprised, because he has never seen a Kangaroo dance like that before.
+Little God Nqa is just saying, 'Go away,' but the Kangaroo is so busy
+dancing that he has not heard him yet.
+
+The Kangaroo hasn't any real name except Boomer. He lost it because
+he was so proud.]
+
+Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, grinning like
+a horse-collar, never getting nearer, never getting farther; and they
+came to the Wollgong River.
+
+Now, there wasn't any bridge, and there wasn't any ferry-boat, and
+Kangaroo didn't know how to get over; so he stood on his legs and
+hopped.
+
+He had to!
+
+He hopped through the Flinders; he hopped through the Cinders; he hopped
+through the deserts in the middle of Australia. He hopped like a
+Kangaroo.
+
+First he hopped one yard; then he hopped three yards; then he hopped
+five yards; his legs growing stronger; his legs growing longer. He
+hadn't any time for rest or refreshment, and he wanted them very much.
+
+Still ran Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo--very much bewildered, very much
+hungry, and wondering what in the world or out of it made Old Man
+Kangaroo hop.
+
+For he hopped like a cricket; like a pea in a saucepan; or a new rubber
+ball on a nursery floor.
+
+He had to!
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at five in the
+afternoon, when he had got his beautiful hind legs just as Big God Nqong
+had promised. You can see that it is five o'clock, because Big God
+Nqong's pet tame clock says so. That is Nqong, in his bath, sticking his
+feet out. Old Man Kangaroo is being rude to Yellow-Dog Dingo. Yellow-Dog
+Dingo has been trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia. You can
+see the marks of Kangaroo's big new feet running ever so far back over
+the bare hills. Yellow-Dog Dingo is drawn black, because I am not
+allowed to paint these pictures with real colours out of the paint-box;
+and besides, Yellow-Dog Dingo got dreadfully black and dusty after
+running through the Flinders and the Cinders.
+
+I don't know the names of the flowers growing round Nqong's bath. The
+two little squatty things out in the desert are the other two gods that
+Old Man Kangaroo spoke to early in the morning. That thing with the
+letters on it is Old Man Kangaroo's pouch. He had to have a pouch just
+as he had to have legs.]
+
+He tucked up his front legs; he hopped on his hind legs; he stuck out
+his tail for a balance-weight behind him; and he hopped through the
+Darling Downs.
+
+He had to!
+
+Still ran Dingo--Tired-Dog Dingo--hungrier and hungrier, very much
+bewildered, and wondering when in the world or out of it would Old Man
+Kangaroo stop.
+
+Then came Nqong from his bath in the salt-pans, and said, 'It's five
+o'clock.'
+
+Down sat Dingo--Poor Dog Dingo--always hungry, dusky in the sunshine;
+hung out his tongue and howled.
+
+Down sat Kangaroo--Old Man Kangaroo--stuck out his tail like a
+milking-stool behind him, and said, 'Thank goodness _that's_ finished!'
+
+Then said Nqong, who is always a gentleman, 'Why aren't you grateful to
+Yellow-Dog Dingo? Why don't you thank him for all he has done for you?'
+
+Then said Kangaroo--Tired Old Kangaroo--'He's chased me out of the
+homes of my childhood; he's chased me out of my regular meal-times; he's
+altered my shape so I'll never get it back; and he's played Old Scratch
+with my legs.'
+
+Then said Nqong, 'Perhaps I'm mistaken, but didn't you ask me to make
+you different from all other animals, as well as to make you very truly
+sought after? And now it is five o'clock.'
+
+'Yes,' said Kangaroo. 'I wish that I hadn't. I thought you would do it
+by charms and incantations, but this is a practical joke.'
+
+'Joke!' said Nqong from his bath in the blue gums. 'Say that again and
+I'll whistle up Dingo and run your hind legs off.'
+
+'No,' said the Kangaroo. 'I must apologise. Legs are legs, and you
+needn't alter 'em so far as I am concerned. I only meant to explain to
+Your Lordliness that I've had nothing to eat since morning, and I'm very
+empty indeed.'
+
+'Yes,' said Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo,--'I am just in the same situation.
+I've made him different from all other animals; but what may I have for
+my tea?'
+
+Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan, 'Come and ask me about
+it to-morrow, because I'm going to wash.'
+
+So they were left in the middle of Australia, Old Man Kangaroo and
+Yellow-Dog Dingo, and each said, 'That's _your_ fault.'
+
+      THIS is the mouth-filling song
+      Of the race that was run by a Boomer,
+      Run in a single burst--only event of its kind--
+      Started by big God Nqong from Warrigaborrigarooma,
+      Old Man Kangaroo first: Yellow-Dog Dingo behind.
+
+      Kangaroo bounded away,
+      His back-legs working like pistons--
+      Bounded from morning till dark,
+      Twenty-five feet to a bound.
+      Yellow-Dog Dingo lay
+      Like a yellow cloud in the distance--
+      Much too busy to bark.
+      My! but they covered the ground!
+
+      Nobody knows where they went,
+      Or followed the track that they flew in,
+      For that Continent
+      Hadn't been given a name.
+      They ran thirty degrees,
+      From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin
+      (Look at the Atlas, please),
+      And they ran back as they came.
+
+      S'posing you could trot
+      From Adelaide to the Pacific,
+      For an afternoon's run--
+      Half what these gentlemen did--
+      You would feel rather hot,
+      But your legs would develop terrific--
+      Yes, my importunate son,
+      You'd be a Marvellous Kid!
+
+[Illustration: The Beginning of the Armadillos]
+
+
+
+
+THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS
+
+
+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
+_that_ was all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?
+
+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.
+
+One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar
+found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the
+trunk of a fallen tree. They could not run away, and so Stickly-Prickly
+curled himself up into a ball, because he was a Hedgehog, and Slow-Solid
+Tortoise drew in his head and feet into his shell as far as they would
+go, because he was a Tortoise; and so _that_ was all right, Best
+Beloved. Do you see?
+
+'Now attend to me,' said Painted Jaguar, 'because this is very
+important. My mother said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop him
+into the water and then he will uncoil, and when I meet a Tortoise I am
+to scoop him out of his shell with my paw. Now which of you is Hedgehog
+and which is Tortoise? because to save my spots, I can't tell.'
+
+'Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?' said Stickly-Prickly
+Hedgehog. 'Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you uncoil a
+Tortoise you must shell him out of the water with a scoop, and when you
+paw a Hedgehog you must drop him on the shell.'
+
+'Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?' said Slow-and-Solid
+Tortoise. 'Are you quite sure? Perhaps she said that when you water a
+Hedgehog you must drop him into your paw, and when you meet a Tortoise
+you must shell him till he uncoils.'
+
+'I don't think it was at all like that,' said Painted Jaguar, but he
+felt a little puzzled; 'but, please, say it again more distinctly.'
+
+'When you scoop water with your paw you uncoil it with a Hedgehog,' said
+Stickly-Prickly. 'Remember that, because it's important.'
+
+'_But_,' said the Tortoise, 'when you paw your meat you drop it into a
+Tortoise with a scoop. Why can't you understand?'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in
+Red and Black. It hasn't anything to do with the story except that there
+are two Armadillos in it--up by the top. The inciting part are the
+adventures that happened to the men who went along the road marked in
+red. I meant to draw Armadillos when I began the map, and I meant to
+draw manatees and spider-tailed monkeys and big snakes and lots of
+Jaguars, but it was more inciting to do the map and the venturesome
+adventures in red. You begin at the bottom left-hand corner and follow
+the little arrows all about, and then you come quite round again to
+where the adventuresome people went home in a ship called the _Royal
+Tiger_. This is a most adventuresome 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 or a boat.]
+
+'You are making my spots ache,' said Painted Jaguar; 'and besides, I
+didn't want your advice at all. I only wanted to know which of you is
+Hedgehog and which is Tortoise.'
+
+'I shan't tell you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'but you can scoop me out of
+my shell if you like.'
+
+'Aha!' said Painted Jaguar. 'Now I know you're Tortoise. You thought I
+wouldn't! Now I will.' Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as
+Stickly-Prickly curled himself up, and of course Jaguar's paddy-paw was
+just filled with prickles. Worse than that, he knocked Stickly-Prickly
+away and away into the woods and the bushes, where it was too dark to
+find him. Then he put his paddy-paw into his mouth, and of course the
+prickles hurt him worse than ever. As soon as he could speak he said,
+'Now I know he isn't Tortoise at all. But'--and then he scratched his
+head with his un-prickly paw--'how do I know that this other is
+Tortoise?'
+
+'But I _am_ Tortoise,' said Slow-and-Solid. 'Your mother was quite
+right. She said that you were to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.
+Begin.'
+
+'You didn't say she said that a minute ago,' said Painted Jaguar,
+sucking the prickles out of his paddy-paw. 'You said she said something
+quite different.'
+
+'Well, suppose you say that I said that she said something quite
+different, I don't see that it makes any difference; because if she said
+what you said I said she said, it's just the same as if I said what she
+said she said. On the other hand, if you think she said that you were to
+uncoil me with a scoop, instead of pawing me into drops with a shell, I
+can't help that, can I?'
+
+'But you said you wanted to be scooped out of your shell with my paw,'
+said Painted Jaguar.
+
+'If you'll think again you'll find that I didn't say anything of the
+kind. I said that your mother said that you were to scoop me out of my
+shell,' said Slow-and-Solid.
+
+'What will happen if I do?' said the Jaguar most sniffily and most
+cautious.
+
+'I don't know, because I've never been scooped out of my shell before;
+but I tell you truly, if you want to see me swim away you've only got to
+drop me into the water.'
+
+'I don't believe it,' said Painted Jaguar. 'You've mixed up all the
+things my mother told me to do with the things that you asked me whether
+I was sure that she didn't say, till I don't know whether I'm on my head
+or my painted tail; and now you come and tell me something I _can_
+understand, and it makes me more mixy than before. My mother told me
+that I was to drop one of you two into the water, and as you seem so
+anxious to be dropped I think you don't want to be dropped. So jump into
+the turbid Amazon and be quick about it.'
+
+'I warn you that your Mummy won't be pleased. Don't tell her I didn't
+tell you,' said Slow-Solid.
+
+'If you say another word about what my mother said--' the Jaguar
+answered, but he had not finished the sentence before Slow-and-Solid
+quietly dived into the turbid Amazon, swam under water for a long way,
+and came out on the bank where Stickly-Prickly was waiting for him.
+
+'That was a very narrow escape,' said Stickly-Prickly. 'I don't like
+Painted Jaguar. What did you tell him that you were?'
+
+'I told him truthfully that I was a truthful Tortoise, but he wouldn't
+believe it, and he made me jump into the river to see if I was, and I
+was, and he is surprised. Now he's gone to tell his Mummy. Listen to
+him!'
+
+They could hear Painted Jaguar roaring up and down among the trees and
+the bushes by the side of the turbid Amazon, till his Mummy came.
+
+'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'what have you been doing that you shouldn't have done?'
+
+'I tried to scoop something that said it wanted to be scooped out of its
+shell with my paw, and my paw is full of per-ickles,' said Painted
+Jaguar.
+
+'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'by the prickles in your paddy-paw I see that that must have been
+a Hedgehog. You should have dropped him into the water.'
+
+'I did that to the other thing; and he said he was a Tortoise, and I
+didn't believe him, and it was quite true, and he has dived under the
+turbid Amazon, and he won't come up again, and I haven't anything at all
+to eat, and I think we had better find lodgings somewhere else. They are
+too clever on the turbid Amazon for poor me!'
+
+'Son, son!' said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'now attend to me and remember what I say. A Hedgehog curls
+himself up into a ball and his prickles stick out every which way at
+once. By this you may know the Hedgehog.'
+
+'I don't like this old lady one little bit,' said Stickly-Prickly, under
+the shadow of a large leaf. 'I wonder what else she knows?'
+
+'A Tortoise can't curl himself up,' Mother Jaguar went on, ever so many
+times, graciously waving her tail. 'He only draws his head and legs into
+his shell. By this you may know the Tortoise.'
+
+'I don't like this old lady at all--at all,' said Slow-and-Solid
+Tortoise. 'Even Painted Jaguar can't forget those directions. It's a
+great pity that you can't swim, Stickly-Prickly.'
+
+'Don't talk to me,' said Stickly-Prickly. 'Just think how much better it
+would be if you could curl up. This _is_ a mess! Listen to Painted
+Jaguar.'
+
+Painted Jaguar was sitting on the banks of the turbid Amazon sucking
+prickles out of his paws and saying to himself--
+
+          'Can't curl, but can swim--
+          Slow-Solid, that's him!
+          Curls up, but can't swim--
+          Stickly-Prickly, that's him!'
+
+'He'll never forget that this month of Sundays,' said Stickly-Prickly.
+'Hold up my chin, Slow-and-Solid. I'm going to try to learn to swim. It
+may be useful.'
+
+'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid; and he held up Stickly-Prickly's chin,
+while Stickly-Prickly kicked in the waters of the turbid Amazon.
+
+'You'll make a fine swimmer yet,' said Slow-and-Solid. 'Now, if you can
+unlace my back-plates a little, I'll see what I can do towards curling
+up. It may be useful.'
+
+Stickly-Prickly helped to unlace Tortoise's back-plates, so that by
+twisting and straining Slow-and-Solid actually managed to curl up a
+tiddy wee bit.
+
+'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly; 'but I shouldn't do any more just
+now. It's making you black in the face. Kindly lead me into the water
+once again and I'll practise that side-stroke which you say is so easy.'
+And so Stickly-Prickly practised, and Slow-Solid swam alongside.
+
+'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid. 'A little more practice will make you
+a regular whale. Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front
+plates two holes more, I'll try that fascinating bend that you say is so
+easy. Won't Painted Jaguar be surprised!'
+
+'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly, all wet from the turbid Amazon. 'I
+declare, I shouldn't know you from one of my own family. Two holes, I
+think, you said? A little more expression, please, and don't grunt quite
+so much, or Painted Jaguar may hear us. When you've finished, I want to
+try that long dive which you say is so easy. Won't Painted Jaguar be
+surprised!'
+
+And so Stickly-Prickly dived, and Slow-and-Solid dived alongside.
+
+'Excellent!' said Slow-and-Solid. 'A leetle more attention to holding
+your breath and you will be able to keep house at the bottom of the
+turbid Amazon. Now I'll try that exercise of wrapping my hind legs round
+my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable. Won't Painted Jaguar
+be surprised!'
+
+'Excellent!' said Stickly-Prickly. 'But it's straining your back-plates
+a little. They are all overlapping now, instead of lying side by side.'
+
+'Oh, that's the result of exercise,' said Slow-and-Solid. 'I've noticed
+that your prickles seem to be melting into one another, and that you're
+growing to look rather more like a pine-cone, and less like a
+chestnut-burr, than you used to.'
+
+'Am I?' said Stickly-Prickly. 'That comes from my soaking in the water.
+Oh, won't Painted Jaguar be surprised!'
+
+They went on with their exercises, each helping the other, till morning
+came; and when the sun was high they rested and dried themselves. Then
+they saw that they were both of them quite different from what they had
+been.
+
+'Stickly-Prickly,' said Tortoise after breakfast, 'I am not what I was
+yesterday; but I think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar.'
+
+'That was the very thing I was thinking just now,' said Stickly-Prickly.
+'I think scales are a tremendous improvement on prickles--to say nothing
+of being able to swim. Oh, _won't_ Painted Jaguar be surprised! Let's go
+and find him.'
+
+By and by they found Painted Jaguar, still nursing his paddy-paw that
+had been hurt the night before. He was so astonished that he fell three
+times backward over his own painted tail without stopping.
+
+'Good morning!' said Stickly-Prickly. 'And how is your dear gracious
+Mummy this morning?'
+
+'She is quite well, thank you,' said Painted Jaguar; 'but you must
+forgive me if I do not at this precise moment recall your name.'
+
+'That's unkind of you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'seeing that this time
+yesterday you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.'
+
+'But you hadn't any shell. It was all prickles,' said Painted Jaguar. 'I
+know it was. Just look at my paw!'
+
+'You told me to drop into the turbid Amazon and be drowned,' said
+Slow-Solid. 'Why are you so rude and forgetful to-day?'
+
+'Don't you remember what your mother told you?' said Stickly-Prickly,--
+
+          'Can't curl, but can swim--
+          Stickly-Prickly, that's him!
+          Curls up, but can't swim--
+          Slow-Solid, that's him!'
+
+Then they both curled themselves up and rolled round and round Painted
+Jaguar till his eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head.
+
+Then he went to fetch his mother.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is a picture of the whole story of the Jaguar and
+the Hedgehog and the Tortoise _and_ the Armadillo all in a heap. It
+looks rather the same any way you turn it. The Tortoise is in the
+middle, learning how to bend, and that is why the shelly plates on his
+back are so spread apart. He is standing on the Hedgehog, who is waiting
+to learn how to swim. The Hedgehog is a Japanesy Hedgehog, because I
+couldn't find our own Hedgehogs in the garden when I wanted to draw
+them. (It was daytime, and they had gone to bed under the dahlias.)
+Speckly Jaguar is looking over the edge, with his paddy-paw carefully
+tied up by his mother, because he pricked himself scooping the Hedgehog.
+He is much surprised to see what the Tortoise is doing, and his paw is
+hurting him. The snouty thing with the little eye that Speckly Jaguar is
+trying to climb over is the Armadillo that the Tortoise and the Hedgehog
+are going to turn into when they have finished bending and swimming. It
+is all a magic picture, and that is one of the reasons why I haven't
+drawn the Jaguar's whiskers. The other reason was that he was so young
+that his whiskers had not grown. The Jaguar's pet name with his Mummy
+was Doffles.]
+
+'Mother,' he said, 'there are two new animals in the woods to-day,
+and the one that you said couldn't swim, swims, and the one that you
+said couldn't curl up, curls; and they've gone shares in their prickles,
+I think, because both of them are scaly all over, instead of one being
+smooth and the other very prickly; and, besides that, they are rolling
+round and round in circles, and I don't feel comfy.'
+
+'Son, son!' said Mother Jaguar ever so many times, graciously waving her
+tail, 'a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog, and can't be anything but a Hedgehog;
+and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, and can never be anything else.'
+
+'But it isn't a Hedgehog, and it isn't a Tortoise. It's a little bit of
+both, and I don't know its proper name.'
+
+'Nonsense!' said Mother Jaguar. 'Everything has its proper name. I
+should call it "Armadillo" till I found out the real one. And I should
+leave it alone.'
+
+So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving them
+alone; but the curious thing is that from that day to this, O Best
+Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called
+Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo. There are
+Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my
+garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales lying
+lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales, that lived on
+the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days, are always
+called Armadillos, because they were so clever.
+
+So _that's_ all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          I'VE never sailed the Amazon,
+            I've never reached Brazil;
+          But the _Don_ and _Magdalena_,
+            They can go there when they will!
+
+                        Yes, weekly from Southampton,
+                        Great steamers, white and gold,
+                        Go rolling down to Rio
+                        (Roll down--roll down to Rio!)
+                        And I'd like to roll to Rio
+                        Some day before I'm old!
+
+          I've never seen a Jaguar,
+            Nor yet an Armadill--
+          O dilloing in his armour,
+            And I s'pose I never will,
+
+                        Unless I go to Rio
+                        These wonders to behold--
+                        Roll down--roll down to Rio--
+                        Roll really down to Rio!
+                        Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio
+                        Some day before I'm old!
+
+[Illustration: How the First Letter Was Written]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN
+
+
+ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jute or
+an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best
+Beloved, but never mind why. He was a Primitive, and he lived cavily in
+a Cave, and he wore very few clothes, and he couldn't read and he
+couldn't write and he didn't want to, and except when he was hungry he
+was quite happy. His name was Tegumai Bopsulai, and that means,
+'Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry'; but we, O Best
+Beloved, will call him Tegumai, for short. And his wife's name was
+Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, 'Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions';
+but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short. And his little
+girl-daughter's name was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means,
+'Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked'; but I'm
+going to call her Taffy. And she was Tegumai Bopsulai's Best Beloved and
+her own Mummy's Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as
+was good for her; and they were all three very happy. As soon as Taffy
+could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and
+sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry,
+and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, 'Where in the world have you two
+been to, to get so shocking dirty? Really, my Tegumai, you're no better
+than my Taffy.'
+
+Now attend and listen!
+
+One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down through the beaver-swamp to the
+Wagai river to spear carp-fish for dinner, and Taffy went too. Tegumai's
+spear was made of wood with shark's teeth at the end, and before he had
+caught any fish at all he accidentally broke it clean across by jabbing
+it down too hard on the bottom of the river. They were miles and miles
+from home (of course they had their lunch with them in a little bag),
+and Tegumai had forgotten to bring any extra spears.
+
+'Here's a pretty kettle of fish!' said Tegumai. 'It will take me half
+the day to mend this.'
+
+'There's your big black spear at home,' said Taffy. 'Let me run back to
+the Cave and ask Mummy to give it me.'
+
+'It's too far for your little fat legs,' said Tegumai. 'Besides, you
+might fall into the beaver-swamp and be drowned. We must make the best
+of a bad job.' He sat down and took out a little leather mendy-bag, full
+of reindeer-sinews and strips of leather, and lumps of bee's-wax and
+resin, and began to mend the spear. Taffy sat down too, with her toes in
+the water and her chin in her hand, and thought very hard. Then she
+said--
+
+'I say, Daddy, it's an awful nuisance that you and I don't know how to
+write, isn't it? If we did we could send a message for the new spear.'
+
+'Taffy,' said Tegumai, 'how often have I told you not to use slang?
+"Awful" isn't a pretty word,--but it _would_ be a convenience, now you
+mention it, if we could write home.'
+
+Just then a Stranger-man came along the river, but he belonged to a far
+tribe, the Tewaras, and he did not understand one word of Tegumai's
+language. He stood on the bank and smiled at Taffy, because he had a
+little girl-daughter of his own at home. Tegumai drew a hank of
+deer-sinews from his mendy-bag and began to mend his spear.
+
+'Come here,' said Taffy. 'Do you know where my Mummy lives?' And the
+Stranger-man said 'Um!'--being, as you know, a Tewara.
+
+'Silly!' said Taffy, and she stamped her foot, because she saw a shoal
+of very big carp going up the river just when her Daddy couldn't use his
+spear.
+
+'Don't bother grown-ups,' said Tegumai, so busy with his spear-mending
+that he did not turn round.
+
+'I aren't,' said Taffy. 'I only want him to do what I want him to do,
+and he won't understand.'
+
+'Then don't bother me,' said Tegumai, and he went on pulling and
+straining at the deer-sinews with his mouth full of loose ends. The
+Stranger-man--a genuine Tewara he was--sat down on the grass, and Taffy
+showed him what her Daddy was doing. The Stranger-man thought, 'This is
+a very wonderful child. She stamps her foot at me and she makes faces.
+She must be the daughter of that noble Chief who is so great that he
+won't take any notice of me.' So he smiled more politely than ever.
+
+'Now,' said Taffy, 'I want you to go to my Mummy, because your legs are
+longer than mine, and you won't fall into the beaver-swamp, and ask for
+Daddy's other spear--the one with the black handle that hangs over our
+fireplace.'
+
+The Stranger-man (_and_ he was a Tewara) thought, 'This is a very, very
+wonderful child. She waves her arms and she shouts at me, but I don't
+understand a word of what she says. But if I don't do what she wants, I
+greatly fear that that haughty Chief, Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers,
+will be angry.' He got up and twisted a big flat piece of bark off a
+birch-tree and gave it to Taffy. He did this, Best Beloved, to show that
+his heart was as white as the birch-bark and that he meant no harm; but
+Taffy didn't quite understand.
+
+'Oh!' said she. 'Now I see! You want my Mummy's living address? Of
+course I can't write, but I can draw pictures if I've anything sharp to
+scratch with. Please lend me the shark's tooth off your necklace.'
+
+The Stranger-man (and _he_ was a Tewara) didn't say anything, so Taffy
+put up her little hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed and
+shark-tooth necklace round his neck.
+
+The Stranger-man (and he _was_ a Tewara) thought, 'This is a very,
+very, very wonderful child. The shark's tooth on my necklace is a
+magic shark's tooth, and I was always told that if anybody touched
+it without my leave they would immediately swell up or burst, but
+this child doesn't swell up or burst, and that important Chief,
+Man-who-attends-strictly-to-his-business, who has not yet taken any
+notice of me at all, doesn't seem to be afraid that she will swell up or
+burst. I had better be more polite.'
+
+So he gave Taffy the shark's tooth, and she lay down flat on her tummy
+with her legs in the air, like some people on the drawing-room floor
+when they want to draw pictures, and she said, 'Now I'll draw you some
+beautiful pictures! You can look over my shoulder, but you mustn't
+joggle. First I'll draw Daddy fishing. It isn't very like him; but Mummy
+will know, because I've drawn his spear all broken. Well, now I'll draw
+the other spear that he wants, the black-handled spear. It looks as if
+it was sticking in Daddy's back, but that's because the shark's tooth
+slipped and this piece of bark isn't big enough. That's the spear I want
+you to fetch; so I'll draw a picture of me myself 'splaining to you. My
+hair doesn't stand up like I've drawn, but it's easier to draw that way.
+Now I'll draw you. _I_ think you're very nice really, but I can't make
+you pretty in the picture, so you mustn't be 'fended. Are you 'fended?'
+
+The Stranger-man (and he was _a_ Tewara) smiled. He thought, 'There must
+be a big battle going to be fought somewhere, and this extraordinary
+child, who takes my magic shark's tooth but who does not swell up or
+burst, is telling me to call all the great Chief's tribe to help him. He
+_is_ a great Chief, or he would have noticed me.'
+
+'Look,' said Taffy, drawing very hard and rather scratchily, 'now I've
+drawn you, and I've put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand, just
+to remind you that you're to bring it. Now I'll show you how to find my
+Mummy's living-address. You go along till you come to two trees (those
+are trees), and then you go over a hill (that's a hill), and then you
+come into a beaver-swamp all full of beavers. I haven't put in all the
+beavers, because I can't draw beavers, but I've drawn their heads, and
+that's all you'll see of them when you cross the swamp. Mind you don't
+fall in! Then our Cave is just beyond the beaver-swamp. It isn't as high
+as the hills really, but I can't draw things very small. That's my Mummy
+outside. She is beautiful. She is the most beautifullest Mummy there
+ever was, but she won't be 'fended when she sees I've drawn her so
+plain. She'll be pleased of me because I can draw. Now, in case you
+forget, I've drawn the spear that Daddy wants _outside_ our Cave. It's
+_inside_ really, but you show the picture to my Mummy and she'll give it
+you. I've made her holding up her hands, because I know she'll be so
+pleased to see you. Isn't it a beautiful picture? And do you quite
+understand, or shall I 'splain again?'
+
+The Stranger-man (and he was a _Tewara_) looked at the picture and
+nodded very hard. He said to himself, 'If I do not fetch this great
+Chief's tribe to help him, he will be slain by his enemies who are
+coming up on all sides with spears. Now I see why the great Chief
+pretended not to notice me! He feared that his enemies were hiding in
+the bushes and would see him deliver a message to me. Therefore he
+turned his back, and let the wise and wonderful child draw the terrible
+picture showing me his difficulties. I will away and get help for him
+from his tribe.' He did not even ask Taffy the road, but raced off into
+the bushes like the wind, with the birch-bark in his hand, and Taffy sat
+down most pleased.
+
+Now this is the picture that Taffy had drawn for him!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'What have you been doing, Taffy?' said Tegumai. He had mended his spear
+and was carefully waving it to and fro.
+
+'It's a little berangement of my own, Daddy dear,' said Taffy. 'If you
+won't ask me questions, you'll know all about it in a little time, and
+you'll be surprised. You don't know how surprised you'll be, Daddy!
+Promise you'll be surprised.'
+
+'Very well,' said Tegumai, and went on fishing.
+
+The Stranger-man--did you know he was a Tewara?--hurried away with the
+picture and ran for some miles, till quite by accident he found Teshumai
+Tewindrow at the door of her Cave, talking to some other Neolithic
+ladies who had come in to a Primitive lunch. Taffy was very like
+Teshumai, especially about the upper part of the face and the eyes, so
+the Stranger-man--always a pure Tewara--smiled politely and handed
+Teshumai the birch-bark. He had run hard, so that he panted, and his
+legs were scratched with brambles, but he still tried to be polite.
+
+As soon as Teshumai saw the picture she screamed like anything and flew
+at the Stranger-man. The other Neolithic ladies at once knocked him down
+and sat on him in a long line of six, while Teshumai pulled his hair.
+'It's as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man's face,' she said. 'He
+has stuck my Tegumai all full of spears, and frightened poor Taffy so
+that her hair stands all on end; and not content with that, he brings me
+a horrid picture of how it was done. Look!' She showed the picture to
+all the Neolithic ladies sitting patiently on the Stranger-man. 'Here is
+my Tegumai with his arm broken; here is a spear sticking into his back;
+here is a man with a spear ready to throw; here is another man throwing
+a spear from a Cave, and here are a whole pack of people' (they were
+Taffy's beavers really, but they did look rather like people) 'coming up
+behind Tegumai. Isn't it shocking!'
+
+'Most shocking!' said the Neolithic ladies, and they filled the
+Stranger-man's hair with mud (at which he was surprised), and they beat
+upon the Reverberating Tribal Drums, and called together all the chiefs
+of the Tribe of Tegumai, with their Hetmans and Dolmans, all Neguses,
+Woons, and Akhoonds of the organisation, in addition to the Warlocks,
+Angekoks, Juju-men, Bonzes, and the rest, who decided that before they
+chopped the Stranger-man's head off he should instantly lead them down
+to the river and show them where he had hidden poor Taffy.
+
+By this time the Stranger-man (in spite of being a Tewara) was really
+annoyed. They had filled his hair quite solid with mud; they had rolled
+him up and down on knobby pebbles; they had sat upon him in a long line
+of six; they had thumped him and bumped him till he could hardly
+breathe; and though he did not understand their language, he was almost
+sure that the names the Neolithic ladies called him were not ladylike.
+However, he said nothing till all the Tribe of Tegumai were assembled,
+and then he led them back to the bank of the Wagai river, and there they
+found Taffy making daisy-chains, and Tegumai carefully spearing small
+carp with his mended spear.
+
+'Well, you _have_ been quick!' said Taffy. 'But why did you bring so
+many people? Daddy dear, this is my surprise. _Are_ you surprised,
+Daddy?'
+
+'Very,' said Tegumai; 'but it has ruined all my fishing for the day.
+Why, the whole dear, kind, nice, clean, quiet Tribe is here, Taffy.'
+
+And so they were. First of all walked Teshumai Tewindrow and the
+Neolithic ladies, tightly holding on to the Stranger-man, whose hair was
+full of mud (although he was a Tewara). Behind them came the Head Chief,
+the Vice-Chief, the Deputy and Assistant Chiefs (all armed to the upper
+teeth), the Hetmans and Heads of Hundreds, Platoffs with their Platoons,
+and Dolmans with their Detachments; Woons, Neguses, and Akhoonds ranking
+in the rear (still armed to the teeth). Behind them was the Tribe in
+hierarchical order, from owners of four caves (one for each season), a
+private reindeer-run, and two salmon-leaps, to feudal and prognathous
+Villeins, semi-entitled to half a bearskin of winter nights, seven yards
+from the fire, and adscript serfs, holding the reversion of a scraped
+marrow-bone under heriot (Aren't those beautiful words, Best Beloved?).
+They were all there, prancing and shouting, and they frightened every
+fish for twenty miles, and Tegumai thanked them in a fluid Neolithic
+oration.
+
+Then Teshumai Tewindrow ran down and kissed and hugged Taffy very much
+indeed; but the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai took Tegumai by the
+top-knot feathers and shook him severely.
+
+'Explain! Explain! Explain!' cried all the Tribe of Tegumai.
+
+'Goodness' sakes alive!' said Tegumai. 'Let go of my top-knot. Can't a
+man break his carp-spear without the whole countryside descending on
+him? You're a very interfering people.'
+
+'I don't believe you've brought my Daddy's black-handled spear after
+all,' said Taffy. 'And what _are_ you doing to my nice Stranger-man?'
+
+They were thumping him by twos and threes and tens till his eyes turned
+round and round. He could only gasp and point at Taffy.
+
+'Where are the bad people who speared you, my darling?' said Teshumai
+Tewindrow.
+
+'There weren't any,' said Tegumai. 'My only visitor this morning was the
+poor fellow that you are trying to choke. Aren't you well, or are you
+ill, O Tribe of Tegumai?'
+
+'He came with a horrible picture,' said the Head Chief,--'a picture that
+showed you were full of spears.'
+
+'Er--um--Pr'aps I'd better 'splain that I gave him that picture,' said
+Taffy, but she did not feel quite comfy.
+
+'You!' said the Tribe of Tegumai all together.
+'Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked! You?'
+
+'Taffy dear, I'm afraid we're in for a little trouble,' said her Daddy,
+and put his arm round her, so she didn't care.
+
+'Explain! Explain! Explain!' said the Head Chief of the Tribe of
+Tegumai, and he hopped on one foot.
+
+'I wanted the Stranger-man to fetch Daddy's spear, so I drawded it,'
+said Taffy. 'There wasn't lots of spears. There was only one spear. I
+drawded it three times to make sure. I couldn't help it looking as if it
+stuck into Daddy's head--there wasn't room on the birch-bark; and those
+things that Mummy called bad people are my beavers. I drawded them to
+show him the way through the swamp; and I drawded Mummy at the mouth of
+the Cave looking pleased because he is a nice Stranger-man, and _I_
+think you are just the stupidest people in the world,' said Taffy. 'He
+is a very nice man. Why have you filled his hair with mud? Wash him!'
+
+Nobody said anything at all for a long time, till the Head Chief
+laughed; then the Stranger-man (who was at least a Tewara) laughed; then
+Tegumai laughed till he fell down flat on the bank; then all the Tribe
+laughed more and worse and louder. The only people who did not laugh
+were Teshumai Tewindrow and all the Neolithic ladies. They were very
+polite to all their husbands, and said 'idiot!' ever so often.
+
+Then the Head Chief of the Tribe of Tegumai cried and said and sang, 'O
+Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked, you've hit
+upon a great invention!'
+
+'I didn't intend to; I only wanted Daddy's black-handled spear,' said
+Taffy.
+
+'Never mind. It _is_ a great invention, and some day men will call it
+writing. At present it is only pictures, and, as we have seen to-day,
+pictures are not always properly understood. But a time will come, O
+Babe of Tegumai, when we shall make letters--all twenty-six of 'em,--and
+when we shall be able to read as well as to write, and then we shall
+always say exactly what we mean without any mistakes. Let the Neolithic
+ladies wash the mud out of the stranger's hair.
+
+'I shall be glad of that,' said Taffy, 'because, after all, though
+you've brought every single other spear in the Tribe of Tegumai, you've
+forgotten my Daddy's black-handled spear.'
+
+Then the Head Chief cried and said and sang, 'Taffy dear, the next time
+you write a picture-letter, you'd better send a man who can talk our
+language with it, to explain what it means. I don't mind it myself,
+because I am a Head Chief, but it's very bad for the rest of the Tribe
+of Tegumai, and, as you can see, it surprises the stranger.'
+
+Then they adopted the Stranger-man (a genuine Tewara of Tewar) into the
+Tribe of Tegumai, because he was a gentleman and did not make a fuss
+about the mud that the Neolithic ladies had put into his hair. But from
+that day to this (and I suppose it is all Taffy's fault), very few
+little girls have ever liked learning to read or write. Most of them
+prefer to draw pictures and play about with their Daddies--just like
+Taffy.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the story of Taffimai Metallumai carved on an
+old tusk a very long time ago by the Ancient Peoples. If you read my
+story, or have it read to you, you can see how it is all told out on the
+tusk. The tusk was part of an old tribal trumpet that belonged to the
+Tribe of Tegumai. The pictures were scratched on it with a nail or
+something, and then the scratches were filled up with black wax, but all
+the dividing lines and the five little rounds at the bottom were filled
+with red wax. When it was new there was a sort of network of beads and
+shells and precious stones at one end of it; but now that has been
+broken and lost--all except the little bit that you see. The letters
+round the tusk are magic--Runic magic,--and if you can read them you
+will find out something rather new. The tusk is of ivory--very yellow
+and scratched. It is two feet long and two feet round, and weighs eleven
+pounds nine ounces.]
+
+
+          THERE runs a road by Merrow Down--
+            A grassy track to-day it is--
+          An hour out of Guildford town,
+            Above the river Wey it is.
+
+          Here, when they heard the horse-bells ring,
+            The ancient Britons dressed and rode
+          To watch the dark Phoenicians bring
+            Their goods along the Western Road.
+
+          And here, or hereabouts, they met
+            To hold their racial talks and such--
+          To barter beads for Whitby jet,
+            And tin for gay shell torques and such.
+
+          But long and long before that time
+            (When bison used to roam on it)
+          Did Taffy and her Daddy climb
+            That down, and had their home on it.
+
+          Then beavers built in Broadstonebrook
+            And made a swamp where Bramley stands:
+          And bears from Shere would come and look
+            For Taffimai where Shamley stands.
+
+          The Wey, that Taffy called Wagai,
+            Was more than six times bigger then;
+          And all the Tribe of Tegumai
+            They cut a noble figure then!
+
+[Illustration: How the Alphabet Was Made]
+
+
+
+
+HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE
+
+
+THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best
+Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy's spear and the
+Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again
+with her Daddy. Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up
+hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but
+Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished.
+Presently she began to giggle, and her Daddy said, 'Don't be silly,
+child.'
+
+'But wasn't it inciting!' said Taffy. 'Don't you remember how the Head
+Chief puffed out his cheeks, and how funny the nice Stranger-man looked
+with the mud in his hair?'
+
+'Well do I,' said Tegumai. 'I had to pay two deerskins--soft ones with
+fringes--to the Stranger-man for the things we did to him.'
+
+'_We_ didn't do anything,' said Taffy. 'It was Mummy and the other
+Neolithic ladies--and the mud.'
+
+'We won't talk about that,' said her Daddy. 'Let's have lunch.'
+
+Taffy took a marrow-bone and sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes,
+while her Daddy scratched on pieces of birch-bark with a shark's tooth.
+Then she said, 'Daddy, I've thinked of a secret surprise. You make a
+noise--any sort of noise.'
+
+'Ah!' said Tegumai. 'Will that do to begin with?'
+
+'Yes,' said Taffy. 'You look just like a carp-fish with its mouth open.
+Say it again, please.'
+
+'Ah! ah! ah!' said her Daddy. 'Don't be rude, my daughter.'
+
+'I'm not meaning rude, really and truly,' said Taffy. 'It's part of my
+secret-surprise-think. _Do_ say _ah_, Daddy, and keep your mouth open at
+the end, and lend me that tooth. I'm going to draw a carp-fish's mouth
+wide-open.'
+
+'What for?' said her Daddy.
+
+'Don't you see?' said Taffy, scratching away on the bark. 'That will be
+our little secret s'prise. When I draw a carp-fish with his mouth open
+in the smoke at the back of our Cave--if Mummy doesn't mind--it will
+remind you of that ah-noise. Then we can play that it was me jumped out
+of the dark and s'prised you with that noise--same as I did in the
+beaver-swamp last winter.'
+
+'Really?' said her Daddy, in the voice that grown-ups use when they are
+truly attending. 'Go on, Taffy.'
+
+[Illustration: 1]
+
+'Oh bother!' she said. 'I can't draw all of a carp-fish, but I can draw
+something that means a carp-fish's mouth. Don't you know how they stand
+on their heads rooting in the mud? Well, here's a pretence carp-fish (we
+can play that the rest of him is drawn). Here's just his mouth, and that
+means _ah_.' And she drew this. (1.)
+
+'That's not bad,' said Tegumai, and scratched on his own piece of bark
+for himself; but you've forgotten the feeler that hangs across his
+mouth.'
+
+'But I can't draw, Daddy.'
+
+'You needn't draw anything of him except just the opening of his mouth
+and the feeler across. Then we'll know he's a carp-fish, 'cause the
+perches and trouts haven't got feelers. Look here, Taffy.' And he drew
+this. (2.)
+
+[Illustration: 2]
+
+'Now I'll copy it.' said Taffy. 'Will you understand _this_ when you see
+it?' And she drew this. (3.)
+
+[Illustration: 3]
+
+'Perfectly,' said her Daddy. 'And I'll be quite as s'prised when I see
+it anywhere, as if you had jumped out from behind a tree and said "Ah!"'
+
+'Now, make another noise,' said Taffy, very proud.
+
+'Yah!' said her Daddy, very loud.
+
+'H'm,' said Taffy. 'That's a mixy noise. The end part is
+_ah_-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part?
+_Yer-yer-yer_ and _ah! Ya!'_
+
+'It's very like the carp-fish-mouth noise. Let's draw another bit of the
+carp-fish and join 'em,' said her Daddy. _He_ was quite incited too.
+
+'No. If they're joined, I'll forget. Draw it separate. Draw his tail. If
+he's standing on his head the tail will come first. 'Sides, I think I
+can draw tails easiest,' said Taffy.
+
+'A good notion,' said Tegumai. 'Here's a carp-fish tail for the
+_yer_-noise.' And he drew this. (4.)
+
+[Illustration: 4]
+
+'I'll try now,' said Taffy. ''Member I can't draw like you, Daddy. Will
+it do if I just draw the split part of the tail, and the sticky-down
+line for where it joins?' And she drew this. (5.)
+
+[Illustration: 5]
+
+Her Daddy nodded, and his eyes were shiny bright with 'citement.
+
+'That's beautiful,' she said. 'Now make another noise, Daddy.'
+
+'Oh!' said her Daddy, very loud.
+
+'That's quite easy,' said Taffy. 'You make your mouth all around like an
+egg or a stone. So an egg or a stone will do for that.'
+
+'You can't always find eggs or stones. We'll have to scratch a round
+something like one.' And he drew this. (6.)
+
+[Illustration: 6]
+
+'My gracious!' said Taffy, 'what a lot of noise-pictures we've
+made,--carp-mouth, carp-tail, and egg! Now, make another noise, Daddy.'
+
+'Ssh!' said her Daddy, and frowned to himself, but Taffy was too incited
+to notice.
+
+'That's quite easy,' she said, scratching on the bark.
+
+'Eh, what?' said her Daddy. 'I meant I was thinking, and didn't want to
+be disturbed.'
+
+'It's a noise just the same. It's the noise a snake makes, Daddy, when
+it is thinking and doesn't want to be disturbed. Let's make the
+_ssh_-noise a snake. Will this do?' And she drew this. (7.)
+
+[Illustration: 7]
+
+'There,' she said. 'That's another s'prise-secret. When you draw a
+hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave where you mend the
+spears, I'll know you're thinking hard; and I'll come in most
+mousy-quiet. And if you draw it on a tree by the river when you're
+fishing, I'll know you want me to walk most _most_ mousy-quiet, so as
+not to shake the banks.'
+
+'Perfectly true,' said Tegumai. 'And there's more in this game than you
+think. Taffy, dear, I've a notion that your Daddy's daughter has hit
+upon the finest thing that there ever was since the Tribe of Tegumai
+took to using shark's teeth instead of flints for their spear-heads. I
+believe we've found out _the_ big secret of the world.'
+
+'Why?' said Taffy, and her eyes shone too with incitement.
+
+'I'll show,' said her Daddy. 'What's water in the Tegumai language?'
+
+'_Ya_, of course, and it means river too--like Wagai-_ya_--the Wagai
+river.'
+
+'What is bad water that gives you fever if you drink it--black
+water--swamp-water?'
+
+'_Yo_, of course.'
+
+'Now look,' said her Daddy. 'S'pose you saw this scratched by the side
+of a pool in the beaver-swamp?' And he drew this. (8.)
+
+[Illustration: 8]
+
+'Carp-tail and round egg. Two noises mixed! _Yo_, bad water,' said
+Taffy. ''Course I wouldn't drink that water because I'd know you said it
+was bad.'
+
+'But I needn't be near the water at all. I might be miles away, hunting,
+and still----'
+
+'And _still_ it would be just the same as if you stood there and said,
+"G'way, Taffy, or you'll get fever." All that in a carp-fish-tail and a
+round egg! O Daddy, we must tell Mummy, quick!' and Taffy danced all
+round him.
+
+'Not yet,' said Tegumai; 'not till we've gone a little further. Let's
+see. _Yo_ is bad water, but _so_ is food cooked on the fire, isn't it?'
+And he drew this. (9.)
+
+[Illustration: 9]
+
+'Yes. Snake and egg,' said Taffy 'So that means dinner's ready. If you
+saw that scratched on a tree you'd know it was time to come to the Cave.
+So'd I.'
+
+'My Winkie!' said Tegumai. 'That's true too. But wait a minute. I see a
+difficulty. _So_ means "come and have dinner," but _sho_ means the
+drying-poles where we hang our hides.'
+
+'Horrid old drying-poles!' said Taffy. 'I hate helping to hang heavy,
+hot, hairy hides on them. If you drew the snake and egg, and I thought
+it meant dinner, and I came in from the wood and found that it meant I
+was to help Mummy hang the two hides on the drying-poles, what _would_ I
+do?'
+
+'You'd be cross. So'd Mummy. We must make a new picture for _sho_. We
+must draw a spotty snake that hisses _sh-sh_, and we'll play that the
+plain snake only hisses _ssss_.'
+
+'I couldn't be sure how to put in the spots,' said Taffy. 'And p'raps if
+_you_ were in a hurry you might leave them out, and I'd think it was
+_so_ when it was _sho_, and then Mummy would catch me just the same.
+_No!_ I think we'd better draw a picture of the horrid high drying-poles
+their very selves, and make _quite_ sure. I'll put them in just after
+the hissy-snake. Look!' And she drew this. (10.)
+
+[Illustration: 10]
+
+'P'raps that's safest. It's very like our drying-poles, anyhow,' said
+her Daddy, laughing. 'Now I'll make a new noise with a snake and
+drying-pole sound in it. I'll say _shi_. That's Tegumai for spear,
+Taffy.' And he laughed.
+
+'Don't make fun of me,' said Taffy, as she thought of her
+picture-letter and the mud in the Stranger-man's hair. '_You_ draw it,
+Daddy.'
+
+'We won't have beavers or hills this time, eh?' said her Daddy. 'I'll
+just draw a straight line for my spear.' and he drew this, (11.)
+
+[Illustration: 11]
+
+'Even Mummy couldn't mistake that for me being killed.'
+
+'_Please_ don't, Daddy. It makes me uncomfy. Do some more noises. We're
+getting on beautifully.'
+
+'Er-hm!' said Tegumai, looking up. 'We'll say _shu_. That means sky.'
+
+Taffy drew the snake and the drying-pole. Then she stopped. 'We must
+make a new picture for that end sound, mustn't we?'
+
+'_Shu-shu-u-u-u!_' said her Daddy. 'Why, it's just like the
+round-egg-sound made thin.'
+
+'Then s'pose we draw a thin round egg, and pretend it's a frog that
+hasn't eaten anything for years.'
+
+'N-no,' said her Daddy. 'If we drew that in a hurry we might mistake it
+for the round egg itself. _Shu-shu-shu!_ _I'll_ tell you what we'll do.
+We'll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the
+O-noise runs out all thin, _ooo-oo-oo_. Like this.' And he drew this.
+(12.)
+
+[Illustration: 12]
+
+'Oh, that's lovely! Much better than a thin frog. Go on,' said Taffy,
+using her shark's tooth.
+
+Her Daddy went on drawing, and his hand shook with excitement. He went
+on till he had drawn this. (13.)
+
+[Illustration: 13]
+
+'Don't look up, Taffy,' he said. 'Try if you can make out what that
+means in the Tegumai language. If you can, we've found the Secret.'
+
+'Snake--pole--broken-egg--carp-tail and carp-mouth,' said Taffy.
+'_Shu-ya._ Sky-water (rain).' Just then a drop fell on her hand, for the
+day had clouded over. 'Why, Daddy, it's raining. Was _that_ what you
+meant to tell me?'
+
+'Of course,' said her Daddy. 'And I told it you without saying a word,
+didn't I?'
+
+'Well, I _think_ I would have known it in a minute, but that raindrop
+made me quite sure. I'll always remember now. _Shu-ya_ means rain or "it
+is going to rain." Why, Daddy!' She got up and danced round him. 'S'pose
+you went out before I was awake, and drawed _shu-ya_ in the smoke on the
+wall, I'd know it was going to rain and I'd take my beaver-skin hood.
+Wouldn't Mummy be surprised!'
+
+Tegumai got up and danced. (Daddies didn't mind doing those things in
+those days.) 'More than that! More than that!' he said. 'S'pose I wanted
+to tell you it wasn't going to rain much and you must come down to the
+river, what would we draw? Say the words in Tegumai-talk first.'
+
+'_Shu-ya-las, ya maru._ (Sky-water ending. River come to.) _What_ a lot
+of new sounds! _I_ don't see how we can draw them.'
+
+'But I do--but I do!' said Tegumai. 'Just attend a minute, Taffy, and we
+won't do any more to-day. We've got _shu-ya_ all right, haven't we? but
+this _las_ is a teaser. _La-la-la!'_ and he waved his shark-tooth.
+
+'There's the hissy-snake at the end and the carp-mouth before the
+snake--_as-as-as_. We only want _la-la_,' said Taffy.
+
+'I know it, but we have to make la-la. And we're the first people in all
+the world who've ever tried to do it, Taffimai!'
+
+'Well,' said Taffy, yawning, for she was rather tired. '_Las_ means
+breaking or finishing as well as ending, doesn't it?'
+
+'So it does,' said Tegumai. '_Yo-las_ means that there's no water in the
+tank for Mummy to cook with--just when I'm going hunting, too.'
+
+'And _shi-las_ means that your spear is broken. If I'd only thought of
+_that_ instead of drawing silly beaver pictures for the Stranger!'
+
+'_La! La! La!_' said Tegumai, waving his stick and frowning. 'Oh
+bother!'
+
+'I could have drawn _shi_ quite easily,' Taffy went on. 'Then I'd have
+drawn your spear all broken--this way!' And she drew. (14.)
+
+[Illustration: 14]
+
+[Illustration: 15]
+
+[Illustration: 16]
+
+'The very thing,' said Tegumai. 'That's _la_ all over. It isn't like any
+of the other marks, either.' And he drew this. (15.)
+
+'Now for _ya_. Oh, we've done that before. Now for _maru_.
+_Mum-mum-mum_. _Mum_ shuts one's mouth up, doesn't it? We'll draw a shut
+mouth like this.' And he drew. (16.)
+
+'Then the carp-mouth open. That makes _Ma-ma-ma!_ But what about this
+_rrrrr_-thing, Taffy?'
+
+'It sounds all rough and edgy, like your shark-tooth saw when you're
+cutting out a plank for the canoe,' said Taffy.
+
+'You mean all sharp at the edges, like this?' said Tegumai. And he drew.
+(17.)
+
+[Illustration: 17]
+
+''Xactly,' said Taffy. 'But we don't want all those teeth: only put
+two.'
+
+'I'll only put in one,' said Tegumai. 'If this game of ours is going to
+be what I think it will, the easier we make our sound-pictures the
+better for everybody.' And he drew. (18.)
+
+[Illustration: 18]
+
+'_Now_ we've got it,' said Tegumai, standing on one leg. 'I'll draw 'em
+all in a string like fish.'
+
+'Hadn't we better put a little bit of stick or something between each
+word, so's they won't rub up against each other and jostle, same as if
+they were carps?'
+
+'Oh, I'll leave a space for that,' said her Daddy. And very incitedly he
+drew them all without stopping, on a big new bit of birch-bark. (19.)
+
+'_Shu-ya-las ya-maru_,' said Taffy, reading it out sound by sound.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'That's enough for to-day,' said Tegumai. 'Besides, you're getting
+tired, Taffy. Never mind, dear. We'll finish it all to-morrow, and then
+we'll be remembered for years and years after the biggest trees you can
+see are all chopped up for firewood.'
+
+So they went home, and all that evening Tegumai sat on one side of the
+fire and Taffy on the other, drawing _ya's_ and _yo's_ and _shu's_ and
+_shi's_ in the smoke on the wall and giggling together till her Mummy
+said, 'Really, Tegumai, you're worse than my Taffy.'
+
+'Please don't mind,' said Taffy. 'It's only our secret-s'prise, Mummy
+dear, and we'll tell you all about it the very minute it's done; but
+_please_ don't ask me what it is now, or else I'll have to tell.'
+
+So her Mummy most carefully didn't; and bright and early next morning
+Tegumai went down to the river to think about new sound-pictures, and
+when Taffy got up she saw _Ya-las_ (water is ending or running out)
+chalked on the side of the big stone water-tank, outside the Cave.
+
+'Um,' said Taffy. 'These picture-sounds are rather a bother! Daddy's
+just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for
+Mummy to cook with.' She went to the spring at the back of the house and
+filled the tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down to the river
+and pulled her Daddy's left ear--the one that belonged to her to pull
+when she was good.
+
+'Now come along and we'll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,' said
+her Daddy, and they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful lunch
+in the middle, and two games of romps. When they came to T, Taffy said
+that as her name, and her Daddy's, and her Mummy's all began with that
+sound, they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding
+hands. That was all very well to draw once or twice; but when it came to
+drawing it six or seven times, Taffy and Tegumai drew it scratchier and
+scratchier, till at last the T-sound was only a thin long Tegumai with
+his arms out to hold Taffy and Teshumai. You can see from these three
+pictures partly how it happened. (20, 21, 22.)
+
+[Illustration: 20]
+
+[Illustration: 21]
+
+[Illustration: 22]
+
+[Illustration: 23]
+
+[Illustration: 24]
+
+[Illustration: 25]
+
+[Illustration: 26]
+
+[Illustration: 27]
+
+Many of the other pictures were much too beautiful to begin with,
+especially before lunch, but as they were drawn over and over again on
+birch-bark, they became plainer and easier, till at last even Tegumai
+said he could find no fault with them. They turned the hissy-snake the
+other way round for the Z-sound, to show it was hissing backwards in a
+soft and gentle way (23); and they just made a twiddle for E, because it
+came into the pictures so often (24); and they drew pictures of the
+sacred Beaver of the Tegumais for the B-sound (25, 26, 27, 28); and
+because it was a nasty, nosy noise, they just drew noses for the
+N-sound, till they were tired (29); and they drew a picture of the big
+lake-pike's mouth for the greedy Ga-sound (30); and they drew the pike's
+mouth again with a spear behind it for the scratchy, hurty Ka-sound
+(31); and they drew pictures of a little bit of the winding Wagai river
+for the nice windy-windy Wa-sound (32, 33); and so on and so forth and
+so following till they had done and drawn all the sound-pictures that
+they wanted, and there was the Alphabet, all complete.
+
+[Illustration: 28]
+
+[Illustration: 29]
+
+[Illustration: 30]
+
+[Illustration: 31]
+
+[Illustration: 32]
+
+[Illustration: 33]
+
+And after thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and after
+Hieroglyphics and Demotics, and Nilotics, and Cryptics, and Cufics, and
+Runics, and Dorics, and Ionics, and all sorts of other ricks and tricks
+(because the Woons, and the Neguses, and the Akhoonds, and the
+Repositories of Tradition would never leave a good thing alone when they
+saw it), the fine old easy, understandable Alphabet--A, B, C, D, E, and
+the rest of 'em--got back into its proper shape again for all Best
+Beloveds to learn when they are old enough.
+
+But _I_ remember Tegumai Bopsulai, and Taffimai Metallumai and
+Teshumai Tewindrow, her dear Mummy, and all the days gone by. And it was
+so--just so--a little time ago--on the banks of the big Wagai!
+
+          ONE of the first things that Tegumai Bopsulai did
+          after Taffy and he had made the Alphabet was to
+          make a magic Alphabet-necklace of all the letters,
+          so that it could be put in the Temple of Tegumai
+          and kept for ever and ever. All the Tribe of
+          Tegumai brought their most precious beads and
+          beautiful things, and Taffy and Tegumai spent five
+          whole years getting the necklace in order. This is
+          a picture of the magic Alphabet-necklace. The
+          string was made of the finest and strongest
+          reindeer-sinew, bound round with thin copper wire.
+
+          Beginning at the top, the first bead is an old
+          silver one that belonged to the Head Priest of the
+          Tribe of Tegumai; then come three black
+          mussel-pearls; next is a clay bead (blue and
+          gray); next a nubbly gold bead sent as a present
+          by a tribe who got it from Africa (but it must
+          have been Indian really); the next is a long
+          flat-sided glass bead from Africa (the Tribe of
+          Tegumai took it in a fight); then come two clay
+          beads (white and green), with dots on one, and
+          dots and bands on the other; next are three rather
+          chipped amber beads; then three clay beads (red
+          and white), two with dots, and the big one in the
+          middle with a toothed pattern. Then the letters
+          begin, and between each letter is a little whitish
+          clay bead with the letter repeated small. Here are
+          the letters--
+
+  A is scratched on a tooth--an elk-tusk I think.
+
+  B is the Sacred Beaver of Tegumai on a bit of old glory.
+
+  C is a pearly oyster-shell--inside front.
+
+  D must be a sort of mussel-shell--outside front.
+
+  E is a twist of silver wire.
+
+  F is broken, but what remains of it is a bit of stag's horn.
+
+  G is painted black on a piece of wood. (The bead after G is a small
+    shell, and not a clay bead. I don't know why they did that.)
+
+  H is a kind of a big brown cowie-shell.
+
+  I is the inside part of a long shell ground down by hand. (It took
+    Tegumai three months to grind it down.)
+
+  J is a fish hook in mother-of-pearl.
+
+  L is the broken spear in silver. (K ought to follow J of course, but
+    the necklace was broken once and they mended it wrong.)
+
+  K is a thin slice of bone scratched and rubbed in black.
+
+  M is on a pale gray shell.
+
+  N is a piece of what is called porphyry with a nose scratched on it.
+    (Tegumai spent five months polishing this stone.)
+
+  O is a piece of oyster-shell with a hole in the middle.
+
+  P and Q are missing. They were lost, a long time ago, in a great
+    war, and the tribe mended the necklace with the dried rattles of
+    a rattlesnake, but no one ever found P and Q. That is how the
+    saying began, 'You must mind your P's. and Q's.'
+
+  R is, of course, just a shark's tooth.
+
+  S is a little silver snake.
+
+  T is the end of a small bone, polished brown and shiny.
+
+  U is another piece of oyster-shell.
+
+  W is a twisty piece of mother-of-pearl that they found inside a big
+    mother-of-pearl shell, and sawed off with a wire dipped in sand
+    and water. It took Taffy a month and a half to polish it and drill
+    the holes.
+
+  X is silver wire joined in the middle with a raw garnet. (Taffy
+    found the garnet.)
+
+  Y is the carp's tail in ivory.
+
+  Z is a bell-shaped piece of agate marked with Z-shaped stripes. They
+    made the Z-snake out of one of the stripes by picking out the soft
+    stone and rubbing in red sand and bee's-wax. Just in the mouth of
+    the bell you see the clay bead repeating the Z-letter.
+
+         These are all the letters.
+
+         The next bead is a small round greeny lump of
+         copper ore; the next is a lump of rough turquoise;
+         the next is a rough gold nugget (what they call
+         water-gold); the next is a melon-shaped clay bead
+         (white with green spots). Then come four flat ivory
+         pieces, with dots on them rather like dominoes;
+         then come three stone beads, very badly worn; then
+         two soft iron beads with rust-holes at the edges
+         (they must have been magic, because they look very
+         common); and last is a very very old African bead,
+         like glass--blue, red, white, black, and yellow.
+         Then comes the loop to slip over the big silver
+         button at the other end, and that is all.
+
+         I have copied the necklace very carefully. It
+         weighs one pound seven and a half ounces. The black
+         squiggle behind is only put in to make the beads
+         and things look better.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          OF all the Tribe of Tegumai
+            Who cut that figure, none remain,--
+          On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry--
+            The silence and the sun remain.
+
+          But as the faithful years return
+            And hearts unwounded sing again,
+          Comes Taffy dancing through the fern
+            To lead the Surrey spring again.
+
+          Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds,
+            And golden elf-locks fly above;
+          Her eyes are bright as diamonds
+            And bluer than the skies above.
+
+          In mocassins and deer-skin cloak,
+            Unfearing, free and fair she flits,
+          And lights her little damp-wood smoke
+            To show her Daddy where she flits.
+
+          For far--oh, very far behind,
+            So far she cannot call to him,
+          Comes Tegumai alone to find
+            The daughter that was all to him.
+
+[Illustration: The Crab that Played With the Sea]
+
+
+
+
+THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA
+
+
+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 Sea ready; and then he told all the
+Animals that they could come out and play. And the Animals said,
+'O Eldest Magician, what shall we play at?' and he said, 'I will
+show you.' He took the Elephant--All-the-Elephant-there-was--and
+said, 'Play at being an Elephant,' and All-the-Elephant-there-was
+played. He  took the Beaver--All-the-Beaver-there-was--and said,
+'Play at being a  Beaver,' and All-the-Beaver-there-was played.
+He took the Cow--All-the-Cow-there-was--and said, 'Play at
+being a  Cow,' and All-the-Cow-there-was played. He took the
+Turtle--All-the-Turtle-there-was--and said, 'Play at being a
+Turtle,' and All-the-Turtle-there-was played. One by one he took
+all the beasts and birds and fishes and told them what to play at.
+
+But towards evening, when people and things grow restless and tired,
+there came up the Man (With his own little girl-daughter?)--Yes, with
+his own best beloved little girl-daughter sitting upon his shoulder, and
+he said, 'What is this play, Eldest Magician?' And the Eldest Magician
+said, 'Ho, Son of Adam, this is the play of the Very Beginning; but you
+are too wise for this play.' And the Man saluted and said, 'Yes, I am
+too wise for this play; but see that you make all the Animals obedient
+to me.'
+
+Now, while the two were talking together, Pau Amma the Crab, who was
+next in the game, scuttled off sideways and stepped into the sea, saying
+to himself, 'I will play my play alone in the deep waters, and I will
+never be obedient to this son of Adam.' Nobody saw him go away except
+the little girl-daughter where she leaned on the Man's shoulder. And the
+play went on till there were no more Animals left without orders; and
+the Eldest Magician wiped the fine dust off his hands and walked about
+the world to see how the Animals were playing.
+
+He went North, Best Beloved, and he found All-the-Elephant-there-was
+digging with his tusks and stamping with his feet in the nice new clean
+earth that had been made ready for him.
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Elephant-there-was, meaning, 'Is this right?'
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician, meaning, 'That is quite right';
+and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that
+All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became the great
+Himalayan Mountains, and you can look them out on the map.
+
+He went East, and he found All-the-Cow-there-was feeding in the field
+that had been made ready for her, and she licked her tongue round a
+whole forest at a time, and swallowed it and sat down to chew her cud.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is a picture of Pau Amma the Crab running away
+while the Eldest Magician was talking to the Man and his Little Girl
+Daughter. The Eldest Magician is sitting on his magic throne, wrapped up
+in his Magic Cloud. The three flowers in front of him are the three
+Magic Flowers. On the top of the hill you can see
+All-the-Elephant-there-was, and All-the-Cow-there-was, and
+All-the-Turtle-there-was going off to play as the Eldest Magician told
+them. The Cow has a hump, because she was All-the-Cow-there-was; so she
+had to have all there was for all the cows that were made afterwards.
+Under the hill there are Animals who have been taught the game they were
+to play. You can see All-the-Tiger-there-was smiling at
+All-the-Bones-there-were, and you can see All-the-Elk-there-was, and
+All-the-Parrot-there-was, and All-the-Bunnies-there-were on the hill.
+The other Animals are on the other side of the hill, so I haven't drawn
+them. The little house up the hill is All-the-House-there-was. The
+Eldest Magician made it to show the Man how to make houses when he
+wanted to. The Snake round that spiky hill is All-the-Snake-there-was,
+and he is talking to All-the-Monkey-there-was, and the Monkey is being
+rude to the Snake, and the Snake is being rude to the Monkey. The Man is
+very busy talking to the Eldest Magician. The Little Girl Daughter is
+looking at Pau Amma as he runs away. That humpy thing in the water in
+front is Pau Amma. He wasn't a common Crab in those days. He was a King
+Crab. That is why he looks different. The thing that looks like bricks
+that the Man is standing in, is the Big Miz-Maze. When the Man has done
+talking with the Eldest Magician he will walk in the Big Miz-Maze,
+because he has to. The mark on the stone under the Man's foot is a magic
+mark; and down underneath I have drawn the three Magic Flowers all mixed
+up with the Magic Cloud. All this picture is Big Medicine and Strong
+Magic.]
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Cow-there-was.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the bare
+patch where she had eaten, and upon the place where she had sat down,
+and one became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert
+of Sahara, and you can look them out on the map.
+
+He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a beaver-dam
+across the mouths of broad rivers that had been got ready for him.
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Beaver-there-was.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the fallen
+trees and the still water, and they became the Everglades in Florida,
+and you may look them out on the map.
+
+Then he went South and found All-the-Turtle-there-was scratching with
+his flippers in the sand that had been got ready for him, and the sand
+and the rocks whirled through the air and fell far off into the sea.
+
+'_Kun?_' said All-the-Turtle-there-was.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the sand
+and the rocks, where they had fallen in the sea, and they became the
+most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and the rest
+of the Malay Archipelago, and you can look _them_ out on the map!
+
+By and by the Eldest Magician met the Man on the banks of the Perak
+river, and said, 'Ho! Son of Adam, are all the Animals obedient to you?'
+
+'Yes,' said the Man.
+
+'Is all the Earth obedient to you?'
+
+'Yes,' said the Man.
+
+'Is all the Sea obedient to you?'
+
+'No,' said the Man. 'Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up the
+Perak river and drives the sweet-water back into the forest, so that my
+house is made wet; once a day and once a night it runs down the river
+and draws all the water after it, so that there is nothing left but mud,
+and my canoe is upset. Is that the play you told it to play?'
+
+'No,' said the Eldest Magician. 'That is a new and a bad play.'
+
+'Look!' said the Man, and as he spoke the great Sea came up the mouth of
+the Perak river, driving the river backwards till it overflowed all the
+dark forests for miles and miles, and flooded the Man's house.
+
+'This is wrong. Launch your canoe and we will find out who is playing
+with the Sea,' said the Eldest Magician. They stepped into the canoe;
+the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his _kris_--a
+curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame,--and they pushed out on
+the Perak river. Then the sea began to run back and back, and the canoe
+was sucked out of the mouth of the Perak river, past Selangor, past
+Malacca, past Singapore, out and out to the Island of Bingtang, as
+though it had been pulled by a string.
+
+Then the Eldest Magician stood up and shouted, 'Ho! beasts, birds, and
+fishes, that I took between my hands at the Very Beginning and taught
+the play that you should play, which one of you is playing with the
+Sea?'
+
+Then all the beasts, birds, and fishes said together, 'Eldest Magician,
+we play the plays that you taught us to play--we and our children's
+children. But not one of us plays with the Sea.'
+
+Then the Moon rose big and full over the water, and the Eldest Magician
+said to the hunchbacked old man who sits in the Moon spinning a
+fishing-line with which he hopes one day to catch the world, 'Ho! Fisher
+of the Moon, are you playing with the Sea?'
+
+'No,' said the Fisherman, 'I am spinning a line with which I shall some
+day catch the world; but I do not play with the Sea.' And he went on
+spinning his line.
+
+Now there is also a Rat up in the Moon who always bites the old
+Fisherman's line as fast as it is made, and the Eldest Magician said to
+him, 'Ho! Rat of the Moon, are _you_ playing with the Sea?'
+
+And the Rat said, 'I am too busy biting through the line that this old
+Fisherman is spinning. I do not play with the Sea.' And he went on
+biting the line.
+
+Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown arms with the
+beautiful white shell bracelets and said, 'O Eldest Magician! when my
+father here talked to you at the Very Beginning, and I leaned upon his
+shoulder while the beasts were being taught their plays, one beast went
+away naughtily into the Sea before you had taught him his play.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and
+are silent! What was the beast like?'
+
+And the little girl-daughter said, 'He was round and he was flat; and
+his eyes grew upon stalks; and he walked sideways like this; and he was
+covered with strong armour upon his back.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who speak
+truth! Now I know where Pau Amma went. Give me the paddle!'
+
+So he took the paddle; but there was no need to paddle, for the water
+flowed steadily past all the islands till they came to the place called
+Pusat Tasek--the Heart of the Sea--where the great hollow is that leads
+down to the heart of the world, and in that hollow grows the Wonderful
+Tree, Pauh Janggi, that bears the magic twin nuts. Then the Eldest
+Magician slid his arm up to the shoulder through the deep warm water,
+and under the roots of the Wonderful Tree he touched the broad back of
+Pau Amma the Crab. And Pau Amma settled down at the touch, and all the
+Sea rose up as water rises in a basin when you put your hand into it.
+
+'Ah!' said the Eldest Magician. 'Now I know who has been playing with
+the Sea;' and he called out, 'What are you doing, Pau Amma?'
+
+And Pau Amma, deep down below, answered, 'Once a day and once a night I
+go out to look for my food. Once a day and once a night I return. Leave
+me alone.'
+
+Then the Eldest Magician said, 'Listen, Pau Amma. When you go out from
+your cave the waters of the Sea pour down into Pusat Tasek, and all the
+beaches of all the islands are left bare, and the little fish die, and
+Raja Moyang Kaban, the King of the Elephants, his legs are made muddy.
+When you come back and sit in Pusat Tasek, the waters of the Sea rise,
+and half the little islands are drowned, and the Man's house is flooded,
+and Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, his mouth is filled with
+the salt water.
+
+Then Pau Amma, deep down below, laughed and said, 'I did not know I was
+so important. Henceforward I will go out seven times a day, and the
+waters shall never be still.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'I cannot make you play the play you were
+meant to play, Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning;
+but if you are not afraid, come up and we will talk about it.'
+
+'I am not afraid,' said Pau Amma, and he rose to the top of the sea in
+the moonlight. There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma--for he
+was the King Crab of all Crabs. Not a common Crab, but a King Crab. One
+side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other touched
+the beach at Pahang; and he was taller than the smoke of three
+volcanoes! As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he
+tore off one of the great twin-fruits--the magic double-kernelled nuts
+that make people young,--and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing
+alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft
+eyes of it with her little golden scissors.
+
+'Now,' said the Magician, 'make a Magic, Pau Amma, to show that you are
+really important.'
+
+Pau Amma rolled his eyes and waved his legs, but he could only stir up
+the Sea, because, though he was a King Crab, he was nothing more than a
+Crab, and the Eldest Magician laughed.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of Pau Amma the Crab rising out of
+the sea as tall as the smoke of three volcanoes. I haven't drawn the
+three volcanoes, because Pau Amma was so big. Pau Amma is trying to make
+a Magic, but he is only a silly old King Crab, and so he can't do
+anything. You can see he is all legs and claws and empty hollow shell.
+The canoe is the canoe that the Man and the Girl Daughter and the Eldest
+Magician sailed from the Perak river in. The sea is all black and
+bobbly, because Pau Amma has just risen up out of Pusat Tasek. Pusat
+Tasek is underneath, so I haven't drawn it. The Man is waving his curvy
+_kris_-knife at Pau Amma. The Little Girl Daughter is sitting quietly in
+the middle of the canoe. She knows she is quite safe with her Daddy. The
+Eldest Magician is standing up at the other end of the canoe beginning
+to make a Magic. He has left his magic throne on the beach, and he has
+taken off his clothes so as not to get wet, and he has left the Magic
+Cloud behind too, so as not to tip the boat over. The thing that looks
+like another little canoe outside the real canoe is called an outrigger.
+It is a piece of wood tied to sticks, and it prevents the canoe from
+being tipped over. The canoe is made out of one piece of wood, and there
+is a paddle at one end of it.]
+
+'You are not so important after all, Pau Amma,' he said. 'Now, let
+_me_ try,' and he made a Magic with his left hand--with just the little
+finger of his left hand--and--lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma's
+hard, blue-green-black shell fell off him as a husk falls off a
+cocoa-nut, and Pau Amma was left all soft--soft as the little crabs that
+you sometimes find on the beach, Best Beloved.
+
+'Indeed, you are very important,' said the Eldest Magician. 'Shall I ask
+the Man here to cut you with _kris_? Shall I send for Raja Moyang Kaban,
+the King of the Elephants, to pierce you with his tusks, or shall I call
+Raja Abdullah, the King of the Crocodiles, to bite you?'
+
+And Pau Amma said, 'I am ashamed! Give me back my hard shell and let me
+go back to Pusat Tasek, and I will only stir out once a day and once a
+night to get my food.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'No, Pau Amma, I will _not_ give you back
+your shell, for you will grow bigger and prouder and stronger, and
+perhaps you will forget your promise, and you will play with the Sea
+once more.'
+
+Then Pau Amma said, 'What shall I do? I am so big that I can only hide
+in Pusat Tasek, and if I go anywhere else, all soft as I am now, the
+sharks and the dogfish will eat me. And if I go to Pusat Tasek, all soft
+as I am now, though I may be safe, I can never stir out to get my food,
+and so I shall die.' Then he waved his legs and lamented.
+
+'Listen, Pau Amma,' said the Eldest Magician. 'I cannot make you play
+the play you were meant to play, because you escaped me at the Very
+Beginning; but if you choose, I can make every stone and every hole and
+every bunch of weed in all the seas a safe Pusat Tasek for you and your
+children for always.'
+
+Then Pau Amma said, 'That is good, but I do not choose yet. Look! there
+is that Man who talked to you at the Very Beginning. If he had not taken
+up your attention I should not have grown tired of waiting and run away,
+and all this would never have happened. What will _he_ do for me?'
+
+And the Man said, 'If you choose, I will make a Magic, so that both the
+deep water and the dry ground will be a home for you and your
+children--so that you shall be able to hide both on the land and in the
+sea.'
+
+And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet. Look! there is that girl who
+saw me running away at the Very Beginning. If she had spoken then, the
+Eldest Magician would have called me back, and all this would never have
+happened. What will _she_ do for me?'
+
+And the little girl-daughter said, 'This is a good nut that I am eating.
+If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of
+scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat
+cocoa-nuts like this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the
+land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for yourself with the scissors that
+belong to you when there is no stone or hole near by; and when the earth
+is too hard, by the help of these same scissors you can run up a tree.'
+
+And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet, for, all soft as I am, these
+gifts would not help me. Give me back my shell, O Eldest Magician, and
+then I will play your play.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician said, 'I will give it back, Pau Amma, for
+eleven months of the year; but on the twelfth month of every year it
+shall grow soft again, to remind you and all your children that I can
+make magics, and to keep you humble, Pau Amma; for I see that if you can
+run both under the water and on land, you will grow too bold; and if you
+can climb trees and crack nuts and dig holes with your scissors, you
+will grow too greedy, Pau Amma.'
+
+Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, 'I have made my choice. I will
+take all the gifts.'
+
+Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right hand, with all five
+fingers of his right hand, and lo and behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma
+grew smaller and smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a
+little green crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying in a
+very small voice, 'Give me the scissors!'
+
+And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little brown
+hand, and sat him in the bottom of the canoe and gave him her scissors,
+and he waved them in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and
+snapped them, and said, 'I can eat nuts. I can crack shells. I can dig
+holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a
+safe Pusat Tasek under every stone. I did not know I was so important.
+_Kun?_' (Is this right?)
+
+'_Payah-kun_,' said the Eldest Magician, and he laughed and gave him
+his blessing; and little Pau Amma scuttled over the side of the canoe
+into the water; and he was so tiny that he could have hidden under the
+shadow of a dry leaf on land or of a dead shell at the bottom of the
+sea.
+
+'Was that well done?' said the Eldest Magician.
+
+'Yes,' said the Man. 'But now we must go back to Perak, and that is a
+weary way to paddle. If we had waited till Pau Amma had gone out of
+Pusat Tasek and come home, the water would have carried us there by
+itself.'
+
+'You are lazy,' said the Eldest Magician. 'So your children shall be
+lazy. They shall be the laziest people in the world. They shall be
+called the Malazy--the lazy people;' and he held up his finger to the
+Moon and said, 'O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home. Pull
+his canoe home with your line, Fisherman.'
+
+'No,' said the Man. 'If I am to be lazy all my days, let the Sea work
+for me twice a day for ever. That will save paddling.'
+
+And the Eldest Magician laughed and said,
+
+'_Payah kun_' (That is right).
+
+And the Rat of the Moon stopped biting the line; and the Fisherman let
+his line down till it touched the Sea, and he pulled the whole deep Sea
+along, past the Island of Bintang, past Singapore, past Malacca, past
+Selangor, till the canoe whirled into the mouth of the Perak River
+again.
+
+'_Kun?_' said the Fisherman of the Moon.
+
+'_Payah kun_,' said the Eldest Magician. 'See now that you pull the Sea
+twice a day and twice a night for ever, so that the Malazy fishermen may
+be saved paddling. But be careful not to do it too hard, or I shall make
+a magic on you as I did to Pau Amma.'
+
+Then they all went up the Perak River and went to bed, Best Beloved.
+
+Now listen and attend!
+
+From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea up and down and
+made what we call the tides. Sometimes the Fisher of the Sea pulls a
+little too hard, and then we get spring-tides; and sometimes he pulls a
+little too softly, and then we get what are called neap-tides; but
+nearly always he is careful, because of the Eldest Magician.
+
+And Pau Amma? You can see when you go to the beach, how all Pau Amma's
+babies make little Pusat Taseks for themselves under every stone and
+bunch of weed on the sands; you can see them waving their little
+scissors; and in some parts of the world they truly live on the dry land
+and run up the palm trees and eat cocoa-nuts, exactly as the
+girl-daughter promised. But once a year all Pau Ammas must shake off
+their hard armour and be soft--to remind them of what the Eldest
+Magician could do. And so it isn't fair to kill or hunt Pau Amma's
+babies just because old Pau Amma was stupidly rude a very long time ago.
+
+Oh yes! And Pau Amma's babies hate being taken out of their little
+Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles. That is why they nip
+you with their scissors, and it serves you right!
+
+
+          CHINA-GOING P. and O.'s
+          Pass Pau Amma's playground close,
+          And his Pusat Tasek lies
+          Near the track of most B.I.'s.
+          U.Y.K. and N.D.L.
+          Know Pau Amma's home as well
+          As the fisher of the Sea knows
+          'Bens,' M.M.'s, and Rubattinos.
+          But (and this is rather queer)
+          A.T.L.'s can _not_ come here;
+          O. and O. and D.O.A.
+          Must go round another way.
+          Orient, Anchor, Bibby, Hall,
+          Never go that way at all.
+          U.C.S. would have a fit
+          If it found itself on it.
+          And if 'Beavers' took their cargoes
+          To Penang instead of Lagos,
+          Or a fat Shaw-Savill bore
+          Passengers to Singapore,
+          Or a White Star were to try a
+          Little trip to Sourabaya,
+          Or a B.S.A. went on
+          Past Natal to Cheribon,
+          Then great Mr. Lloyds would come
+          With a wire and drag them home!
+
+          You'll know what my riddle means
+          When you've eaten mangosteens.
+
+          Or if you can't wait till then, ask them to let
+          you have the outside page of the _Times_; turn
+          over to page 2, where it is marked 'Shipping' on
+          the top left hand; then take the Atlas (and that
+          is the finest picture-book in the world) and see
+          how the names of the places that the steamers go
+          to fit into the names of the places on the map.
+          Any steamer-kiddy ought to be able to do that; but
+          if you can't read, ask some one to show it you.
+
+[Illustration: The Cat that Walked by Himself]
+
+
+
+
+THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF
+
+
+HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became
+and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was
+wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was
+wild, and the Pig was wild--as wild as wild could be--and they walked in
+the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild
+animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to
+him.
+
+Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even
+begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did
+not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave,
+instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean
+sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the
+Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down, across the
+opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come
+in, and now we'll keep house.'
+
+That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones,
+and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed
+with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow-bones
+of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas. Then the Man went
+to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up,
+combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton--the big
+fat blade-bone--and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she
+threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the First
+Singing Magic in the world.
+
+Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where
+they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered
+what it meant.
+
+Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, 'O my Friends and O
+my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that
+great Cave, and what harm will it do us?'
+
+Wild Dog lifted up his wild nose and smelled the smell of roast mutton,
+and said, 'I will go up and see and look, and say; for I think it is
+good. Cat, come with me.'
+
+'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all
+places are alike to me. I will not come.'
+
+'Then we can never be friends again,' said Wild Dog, and he trotted off
+to the Cave. But when he had gone a little way the Cat said to himself,
+'All places are alike to me. Why should I not go too and see and look
+and come away at my own liking.' So he slipped after Wild Dog softly,
+very softly, and hid himself where he could hear everything.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Cave where the Man and the
+Woman lived first of all. It was really a very nice Cave, and much
+warmer than it looks. The Man had a canoe. It is on the edge of the
+river, being soaked in the water to make it swell up. The
+tattery-looking thing across the river is the Man's salmon-net to catch
+salmon with. There are nice clean stones leading up from the river to
+the mouth of the Cave, so that the Man and the Woman could go down for
+water without getting sand between their toes. The things like
+black-beetles far down the beach are really trunks of dead trees that
+floated down the river from the Wet Wild Woods on the other bank. The
+Man and the Woman used to drag them out and dry them and cut them up for
+firewood. I haven't drawn the horse-hide curtain at the mouth of the
+Cave, because the Woman has just taken it down to be cleaned. All those
+little smudges on the sand between the Cave and the river are the marks
+of the Woman's feet and the Man's feet.
+
+The Man and the Woman are both inside the Cave eating their dinner. They
+went to another cosier Cave when the Baby came, because the Baby used to
+crawl down to the river and fall in, and the Dog had to pull him out.]
+
+When Wild Dog reached the mouth of the Cave he lifted up the dried
+horse-skin with his nose and sniffed the beautiful smell of the roast
+mutton, and the Woman, looking at the blade-bone, heard him, and
+laughed, and said, 'Here comes the first. Wild Thing out of the Wild
+Woods, what do you want?'
+
+Wild Dog said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, what is this that
+smells so good in the Wild Woods?'
+
+Then the Woman picked up a roasted mutton-bone and threw it to Wild Dog,
+and said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, taste and try.' Wild Dog
+gnawed the bone, and it was more delicious than anything he had ever
+tasted, and he said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, give me another.'
+
+The Woman said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, help my Man to hunt
+through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as
+many roast bones as you need.'
+
+'Ah!' said the Cat, listening. This is a very wise Woman, but she is not
+so wise as I am.'
+
+Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid his head on the Woman's lap,
+and said, 'O my Friend and Wife of my Friend, I will help your Man to
+hunt through the day, and at night I will guard your Cave.'
+
+'Ah!' said the Cat, listening. 'That is a very foolish Dog.' And he went
+back through the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail, and walking by his
+wild lone. But he never told anybody.
+
+When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the
+Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend,
+because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him
+with you when you go hunting.'
+
+Next night the Woman cut great green armfuls of fresh grass from the
+water-meadows, and dried it before the fire, so that it smelt like
+new-mown hay, and she sat at the mouth of the Cave and plaited a halter
+out of horse-hide, and she looked at the shoulder of mutton-bone--at the
+big broad blade-bone--and she made a Magic. She made the Second Singing
+Magic in the world.
+
+Out in the Wild Woods all the wild animals wondered what had happened to
+Wild Dog, and at last Wild Horse stamped with his foot and said, 'I will
+go and see and say why Wild Dog has not returned. Cat, come with me.'
+
+'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all
+places are alike to me. I will not come.' But all the same he followed
+Wild Horse softly, very softly, and hid himself where he could hear
+everything.
+
+When the Woman heard Wild Horse tripping and stumbling on his long mane,
+she laughed and said, 'Here comes the second. Wild Thing out of the Wild
+Woods what do you want?'
+
+Wild Horse said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, where is Wild Dog?'
+
+The Woman laughed, and picked up the blade-bone and looked at it, and
+said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, you did not come here for Wild
+Dog, but for the sake of this good grass.'
+
+And Wild Horse, tripping and stumbling on his long mane, said, 'That is
+true; give it me to eat.'
+
+The Woman said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, bend your wild head
+and wear what I give you, and you shall eat the wonderful grass three
+times a day.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'this is a clever Woman, but she is not
+so clever as I am.'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself,
+walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild
+tail. There is nothing else in the picture except some toadstools. They
+had to grow there because the woods were so wet. The lumpy thing on the
+low branch isn't a bird. It is moss that grew there because the Wild
+Woods were so wet.
+
+Underneath the truly picture is a picture of the cozy Cave that the Man
+and the Woman went to after the Baby came. It was their summer Cave, and
+they planted wheat in front of it. The Man is riding on the Horse to
+find the Cow and bring her back to the Cave to be milked. He is holding
+up his hand to call the Dog, who has swum across to the other side of
+the river, looking for rabbits.]
+
+Wild Horse bent his wild head, and the Woman slipped the plaited
+hide halter over it, and Wild Horse breathed on the Woman's feet and
+said, 'O my Mistress, and Wife of my Master, I will be your servant for
+the sake of the wonderful grass.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'that is a very foolish Horse.' And he
+went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking
+by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.
+
+When the Man and the Dog came back from hunting, the Man said, 'What is
+Wild Horse doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Horse
+any more, but the First Servant, because he will carry us from place to
+place for always and always and always. Ride on his back when you go
+hunting.'
+
+Next day, holding her wild head high that her wild horns should not
+catch in the wild trees, Wild Cow came up to the Cave, and the Cat
+followed, and hid himself just the same as before; and everything
+happened just the same as before; and the Cat said the same things as
+before, and when Wild Cow had promised to give her milk to the Woman
+every day in exchange for the wonderful grass, the Cat went back through
+the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone,
+just the same as before. But he never told anybody. And when the Man and
+the Horse and the Dog came home from hunting and asked the same
+questions same as before, the Woman said, 'Her name is not Wild Cow any
+more, but the Giver of Good Food. She will give us the warm white milk
+for always and always and always, and I will take care of her while you
+and the First Friend and the First Servant go hunting.'
+
+Next day the Cat waited to see if any other Wild thing would go up to
+the Cave, but no one moved in the Wet Wild Woods, so the Cat walked
+there by himself; and he saw the Woman milking the Cow, and he saw the
+light of the fire in the Cave, and he smelt the smell of the warm white
+milk.
+
+Cat said, 'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, where did Wild Cow go?'
+
+The Woman laughed and said, 'Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, go back
+to the Woods again, for I have braided up my hair, and I have put away
+the magic blade-bone, and we have no more need of either friends or
+servants in our Cave.'
+
+Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a servant. I am the Cat who
+walks by himself, and I wish to come into your cave.'
+
+Woman said, 'Then why did you not come with First Friend on the first
+night?'
+
+Cat grew very angry and said, 'Has Wild Dog told tales of me?'
+
+Then the Woman laughed and said, 'You are the Cat who walks by himself,
+and all places are alike to you. You are neither a friend nor a servant.
+You have said it yourself. Go away and walk by yourself in all places
+alike.'
+
+Then Cat pretended to be sorry and said, 'Must I never come into the
+Cave? Must I never sit by the warm fire? Must I never drink the warm
+white milk? You are very wise and very beautiful. You should not be
+cruel even to a Cat.'
+
+Woman said, 'I knew I was wise, but I did not know I was beautiful. So I
+will make a bargain with you. If ever I say one word in your praise you
+may come into the Cave.'
+
+'And if you say two words in my praise?' said the Cat.
+
+'I never shall,' said the Woman, 'but if I say two words in your
+praise, you may sit by the fire in the Cave.'
+
+'And if you say three words?' said the Cat.
+
+'I never shall,' said the Woman, 'but if I say three words in your
+praise, you may drink the warm white milk three times a day for always
+and always and always.'
+
+Then the Cat arched his back and said, 'Now let the Curtain at the mouth
+of the Cave, and the Fire at the back of the Cave, and the Milk-pots
+that stand beside the Fire, remember what my Enemy and the Wife of my
+Enemy has said.' And he went away through the Wet Wild Woods waving his
+wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
+
+That night when the Man and the Horse and the Dog came home from
+hunting, the Woman did not tell them of the bargain that she had made
+with the Cat, because she was afraid that they might not like it.
+
+Cat went far and far away and hid himself in the Wet Wild Woods by his
+wild lone for a long time till the Woman forgot all about him. Only the
+Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung inside the Cave, knew where
+Cat hid; and every evening Bat would fly to Cat with news of what was
+happening.
+
+One evening Bat said, 'There is a Baby in the Cave. He is new and pink
+and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'but what is the Baby fond of?'
+
+'He is fond of things that are soft and tickle,' said the Bat. 'He is
+fond of warm things to hold in his arms when he goes to sleep. He is
+fond of being played with. He is fond of all those things.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, listening, 'then my time has come.'
+
+Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near the
+Cave till morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse went hunting. The
+Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted.
+So she carried him outside the Cave and gave him a handful of pebbles to
+play with. But still the Baby cried.
+
+Then the Cat put out his paddy paw and patted the Baby on the cheek, and
+it cooed; and the Cat rubbed against its fat knees and tickled it under
+its fat chin with his tail. And the Baby laughed; and the Woman heard
+him and smiled.
+
+Then the Bat--the little upside-down Bat--that hung in the mouth of the
+Cave said, 'O my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's
+Son, a Wild Thing from the Wild Woods is most beautifully playing with
+your Baby.'
+
+'A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be,' said the Woman,
+straightening her back, 'for I was a busy woman this morning and he has
+done me a service.'
+
+The very minute and second, Best Beloved, the dried horse-skin Curtain
+that was stretched tail-down at the mouth of the Cave fell
+down--_woosh!_--because it remembered the bargain she had made with the
+Cat, and when the Woman went to pick it up--lo and behold!--the Cat was
+sitting quite comfy inside the Cave.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'it is I: for you have spoken a word in my praise, and now I can sit
+within the Cave for always and always and always. But still I am the Cat
+who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.'
+
+The Woman was very angry, and shut her lips tight and took up her
+spinning-wheel and began to spin.
+
+But the Baby cried because the Cat had gone away, and the Woman could
+not hush it, for it struggled and kicked and grew black in the face.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'take a strand of the wire that you are spinning and tie it to your
+spinning-whorl and drag it along the floor, and I will show you a magic
+that shall make your Baby laugh as loudly as he is now crying.'
+
+'I will do so,' said the Woman, 'because I am at my wits' end; but I
+will not thank you for it.'
+
+She tied the thread to the little clay spindle-whorl and drew it across
+the floor, and the Cat ran after it and patted it with his paws and
+rolled head over heels, and tossed it backward over his shoulder and
+chased it between his hind-legs and pretended to lose it, and pounced
+down upon it again, till the Baby laughed as loudly as it had been
+crying, and scrambled after the Cat and frolicked all over the Cave till
+it grew tired and settled down to sleep with the Cat in its arms.
+
+'Now,' said the Cat, 'I will sing the Baby a song that shall keep him
+asleep for an hour.' And he began to purr, loud and low, low and loud,
+till the Baby fell fast asleep. The Woman smiled as she looked down upon
+the two of them and said, 'That was wonderfully done. No question but
+you are very clever, O Cat.'
+
+That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the smoke of the fire at the
+back of the Cave came down in clouds from the roof--_puff!_--because it
+remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when it had
+cleared away--lo and behold!--the Cat was sitting quite comfy close to
+the fire.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'it is I, for you have spoken a second word in my praise, and now I can
+sit by the warm fire at the back of the Cave for always and always and
+always. But still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are
+alike to me.'
+
+Then the Woman was very very angry, and let down her hair and put more
+wood on the fire and brought out the broad blade-bone of the shoulder of
+mutton and began to make a Magic that should prevent her from saying a
+third word in praise of the Cat. It was not a Singing Magic, Best
+Beloved, it was a Still Magic; and by and by the Cave grew so still that
+a little wee-wee mouse crept out of a corner and ran across the floor.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'is that little mouse part of your magic?'
+
+'Ouh! Chee! No indeed!' said the Woman, and she dropped the blade-bone
+and jumped upon the footstool in front of the fire and braided up her
+hair very quick for fear that the mouse should run up it.
+
+'Ah,' said the Cat, watching, 'then the mouse will do me no harm if I
+eat it?'
+
+'No,' said the Woman, braiding up her hair, 'eat it quickly and I will
+ever be grateful to you.'
+
+Cat made one jump and caught the little mouse, and the Woman said, 'A
+hundred thanks. Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch
+little mice as you have done. You must be very wise.'
+
+That very moment and second, O Best Beloved, the Milk-pot that stood by
+the fire cracked in two pieces--_ffft_--because it remembered the
+bargain she had made with the Cat, and when the Woman jumped down from
+the footstool--lo and behold!--the Cat was lapping up the warm white
+milk that lay in one of the broken pieces.
+
+'O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,' said the Cat,
+'it is I; for you have spoken three words in my praise, and now I can
+drink the warm white milk three times a day for always and always and
+always. But _still_ I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places
+are alike to me.'
+
+Then the Woman laughed and set the Cat a bowl of the warm white milk and
+said, 'O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain
+was not made with the Man or the Dog, and I do not know what they will
+do when they come home.'
+
+'What is that to me?' said the Cat. 'If I have my place in the Cave by
+the fire and my warm white milk three times a day I do not care what the
+Man or the Dog can do.'
+
+That evening when the Man and the Dog came into the Cave, the Woman
+told them all the story of the bargain while the Cat sat by the fire and
+smiled. Then the Man said, 'Yes, but he has not made a bargain with _me_
+or with all proper Men after me.' Then he took off his two leather boots
+and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a
+piece of wood and a hatchet (that is five altogether), and he set them
+out in a row and he said, 'Now we will make _our_ bargain. If you do not
+catch mice when you are in the Cave for always and always and always, I
+will throw these five things at you whenever I see you, and so shall all
+proper Men do after me.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Woman, listening, 'this is a very clever Cat, but he is
+not so clever as my Man.'
+
+The Cat counted the five things (and they looked very knobby) and he
+said, 'I will catch mice when I am in the Cave for always and always and
+always; but _still_ I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places
+are alike to me.'
+
+'Not when I am near,' said the Man. 'If you had not said that last I
+would have put all these things away for always and always and always;
+but I am now going to throw my two boots and my little stone axe (that
+makes three) at you whenever I meet you. And so shall all proper Men do
+after me!'
+
+Then the Dog said, 'Wait a minute. He has not made a bargain with _me_
+or with all proper Dogs after me.' And he showed his teeth and said, 'If
+you are not kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave for always and
+always and always, I will hunt you till I catch you, and when I catch
+you I will bite you. And so shall all proper Dogs do after me.'
+
+'Ah,' said the Woman, listening, 'this is a very clever Cat, but he is
+not so clever as the Dog.'
+
+Cat counted the Dog's teeth (and they looked very pointed) and he said,
+'I will be kind to the Baby while I am in the Cave, as long as he does
+not pull my tail too hard, for always and always and always. But _still_
+I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.'
+
+'Not when I am near,' said the Dog. 'If you had not said that last I
+would have shut my mouth for always and always and always; but _now_ I
+am going to hunt you up a tree whenever I meet you. And so shall all
+proper Dogs do after me.'
+
+Then the Man threw his two boots and his little stone axe (that makes
+three) at the Cat, and the Cat ran out of the Cave and the Dog chased
+him up a tree; and from that day to this, Best Beloved, three proper Men
+out of five will always throw things at a Cat whenever they meet him,
+and all proper Dogs will chase him up a tree. But the Cat keeps his side
+of the bargain too. He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when
+he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard.
+But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up
+and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are
+alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild
+Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his
+wild lone.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          PUSSY can sit by the fire and sing,
+            Pussy can climb a tree,
+          Or play with a silly old cork and string
+            To 'muse herself, not me.
+          But I like _Binkie_ my dog, because
+            He knows how to behave;
+          So, _Binkie's_ the same as the First Friend was
+            And I am the Man in the Cave.
+
+          Pussy will play man-Friday till
+            It's time to wet her paw
+          And make her walk on the window-sill
+            (For the footprint Crusoe saw);
+          Then she fluffles her tail and mews,
+            And scratches and won't attend.
+          But _Binkie_ will play whatever I choose,
+            And he is my true First Friend.
+
+          Pussy will rub my knees with her head
+            Pretending she loves me hard;
+          But the very minute I go to my bed
+            Pussy runs out in the yard,
+          And there she stays till the morning-light;
+            So I know it is only pretend;
+          But _Binkie_, he snores at my feet all night,
+            And he is my Firstest Friend!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: The Butterfly that Stamped]
+
+
+
+
+THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED
+
+
+THIS, O my Best Beloved, is a story--a new and a wonderful story--a
+story quite different from the other stories--a story about The Most
+Wise Sovereign Suleiman-bin-Daoud--Solomon the Son of David.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud;
+but this is not one of them. It is not the story of the Lapwing who
+found the Water; or the Hoopoe who shaded Suleiman-bin-Daoud from the
+heat. It is not the story of the Glass Pavement, or the Ruby with the
+Crooked Hole, or the Gold Bars of Balkis. It is the story of the
+Butterfly that Stamped.
+
+Now attend all over again and listen!
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud was wise. He understood what the beasts said, what
+the birds said, what the fishes said, and what the insects said. He
+understood what the rocks said deep under the earth when they bowed in
+towards each other and groaned; and he understood what the trees said
+when they rustled in the middle of the morning. He understood
+everything, from the bishop on the bench to the hyssop on the wall, and
+Balkis, his Head Queen, the Most Beautiful Queen Balkis, was nearly as
+wise as he was.
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud was strong. Upon the third finger of the right
+hand he wore a ring. When he turned it once, Afrits and Djinns came
+out of the earth to do whatever he told them. When he turned it
+twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them;
+and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of
+the Sword came dressed as a water-carrier, and told him the news of
+the three worlds,--Above--Below--and Here.
+
+And yet Suleiman-bin-Daoud was not proud. He very seldom showed off,
+and when he did he was sorry for it. Once he tried to feed all the
+animals in all the world in one day, but when the food was ready an
+Animal came out of the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said, 'O Animal, who are you?'
+And the Animal said, 'O King, live for ever! I am the smallest of thirty
+thousand brothers, and our home is at the bottom of the sea. We heard
+that you were going to feed all the animals in all the world, and my
+brothers sent me to ask when dinner would be ready.' Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+was more surprised than ever and said, 'O Animal, you have eaten all the
+dinner that I made ready for all the animals in the world.' And the
+Animal said, 'O King, live for ever, but do you really call that a
+dinner? Where I come from we each eat twice as much as that between
+meals.' Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said, 'O
+Animal! I gave that dinner to show what a great and rich king I was, and
+not because I really wanted to be kind to the animals. Now I am ashamed,
+and it serves me right.' Suleiman-bin-Daoud was a really truly wise man,
+Best Beloved. After that he never forgot that it was silly to show off;
+and now the real story part of my story begins.
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the Animal that came out of the
+sea and ate up all the food that Suleiman-bin-Daoud had made ready for
+all the animals in all the world. He was really quite a nice Animal, and
+his Mummy was very fond of him and of his twenty-nine thousand nine
+hundred and ninety-nine other brothers that lived at the bottom of the
+sea. You know that he was the smallest of them all, and so his name was
+Small Porgies. He ate up all those boxes and packets and bales and
+things that had been got ready for all the animals, without ever once
+taking off the lids or untying the strings, and it did not hurt him at
+all. The sticky-up masts behind the boxes of food belong to
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud's ships. They were busy bringing more food when Small
+Porgies came ashore. He did not eat the ships. They stopped unloading
+the foods and instantly sailed away to sea till Small Porgies had quite
+finished eating. You can see some of the ships beginning to sail away by
+Small Porgies' shoulder. I have not drawn Suleiman-bin-Daoud, but he is
+just outside the picture, very much astonished. The bundle hanging from
+the mast of the ship in the corner is really a package of wet dates for
+parrots to eat. I don't know the names of the ships. That is all there
+is in that picture.]
+
+He married ever so many wifes. He married nine hundred and
+ninety-nine wives, besides the Most Beautiful Balkis; and they all lived
+in a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with
+fountains. He didn't really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives, but
+in those days everybody married ever so many wives, and of course the
+King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King.
+
+Some of the wives were nice, but some were simply horrid, and the horrid
+ones quarrelled with the nice ones and made them horrid too, and then
+they would all quarrel with Suleiman-bin-Daoud, and that was horrid for
+him. But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud. She loved him too much. She sat in her rooms in the
+Golden Palace, or walked in the Palace garden, and was truly sorry for
+him.
+
+Of course if he had chosen to turn his ring on his finger and call up
+the Djinns and the Afrits they would have magicked all those nine
+hundred and ninety-nine quarrelsome wives into white mules of the desert
+or greyhounds or pomegranate seeds; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud thought that
+that would be showing off. So, when they quarrelled too much, he only
+walked by himself in one part of the beautiful Palace gardens and wished
+he had never been born.
+
+One day, when they had quarrelled for three weeks--all nine hundred and
+ninety-nine wives together--Suleiman-bin-Daoud went out for peace and
+quiet as usual; and among the orange trees he met Balkis the Most
+Beautiful, very sorrowful because Suleiman-bin-Daoud was so worried. And
+she said to him, 'O my Lord and Light of my Eyes, turn the ring upon
+your finger and show these Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia
+and China that you are the great and terrible King.' But
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud shook his head and said, 'O my Lady and Delight of my
+Life, remember the Animal that came out of the sea and made me ashamed
+before all the animals in all the world because I showed off. Now, if I
+showed off before these Queens of Persia and Egypt and Abyssinia and
+China, merely because they worry me, I might be made even more ashamed
+than I have been.'
+
+And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, 'O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul,
+what will you do?'
+
+And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, 'O my Lady and Content of my Heart, I
+shall continue to endure my fate at the hands of these nine hundred and
+ninety-nine Queens who vex me with their continual quarrelling.'
+
+So he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the
+cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the garden, till
+he came to the great camphor-tree that was called the Camphor Tree of
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud. But Balkis hid among the tall irises and the spotted
+bamboos and the red lillies behind the camphor-tree, so as to be near
+her own true love, Suleiman-bin-Daoud.
+
+Presently two Butterflies flew under the tree, quarrelling.
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud heard one say to the other, 'I wonder at your
+presumption in talking like this to me. Don't you know that if I stamped
+with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace and this garden here would
+immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.'
+
+Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud forgot his nine hundred and ninety-nine
+bothersome wives, and laughed, till the camphor-tree shook, at the
+Butterfly's boast. And he held out his finger and said, 'Little man,
+come here.'
+
+The Butterfly was dreadfully frightened, but he managed to fly up to
+the hand of Suleiman-bin-Daoud, and clung there, fanning himself.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud bent his head and whispered very softly, 'Little man,
+you know that all your stamping wouldn't bend one blade of grass. What
+made you tell that awful fib to your wife?--for doubtless she is your
+wife.'
+
+The Butterfly looked at Suleiman-bin-Daoud and saw the most wise King's
+eye twinkle like stars on a frosty night, and he picked up his courage
+with both wings, and he put his head on one side and said, 'O King, live
+for ever. She _is_ my wife; and you know what wives are like.'
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud smiled in his beard and said, 'Yes, _I_ know, little
+brother.'
+
+'One must keep them in order somehow,' said the Butterfly, 'and she has
+been quarrelling with me all the morning. I said that to quiet her.'
+
+And Suleiman-bin-Daoud said, 'May it quiet her. Go back to your wife,
+little brother, and let me hear what you say.'
+
+Back flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was all of a twitter behind a
+leaf, and she said, 'He heard you! Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself heard
+you!'
+
+'Heard me!' said the Butterfly. 'Of course he did. I meant him to hear
+me.'
+
+'And what did he say? Oh, what did he say?'
+
+'Well,' said the Butterfly, fanning himself most importantly, 'between
+you and me, my dear--of course I don't blame him, because his Palace
+must have cost a great deal and the oranges are just ripening,--he asked
+me not to stamp, and I promised I wouldn't.'
+
+'Gracious!' said his wife, and sat quite quiet; but Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+laughed till the tears ran down his face at the impudence of the bad
+little Butterfly.
+
+Balkis the Most Beautiful stood up behind the tree among the red lilies
+and smiled to herself, for she had heard all this talk. She thought, 'If
+I am wise I can yet save my Lord from the persecutions of these
+quarrelsome Queens,' and she held out her finger and whispered softly to
+the Butterfly's Wife, 'Little woman, come here.' Up flew the Butterfly's
+Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis's white hand.
+
+Balkis bent her beautiful head down and whispered, 'Little woman, do
+you believe what your husband has just said?'
+
+The Butterfly's Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful
+Queen's eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she
+picked up her courage with both wings and said, 'O Queen, be lovely for
+ever. _You_ know what men-folk are like.'
+
+And the Queen Balkis, the Wise Balkis of Sheba, put her hand to her lips
+to hide a smile and said, 'Little sister, _I_ know.'
+
+'They get angry,' said the Butterfly's Wife, fanning herself quickly,
+'over nothing at all, but we must humour them, O Queen. They never mean
+half they say. If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can
+make Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I'm
+sure _I_ don't care. He'll forget all about it to-morrow.'
+
+'Little sister,' said Balkis, 'you are quite right; but next time he
+begins to boast, take him at his word. Ask him to stamp, and see what
+will happen. _We_ know what men-folk are like, don't we? He'll be very
+much ashamed.'
+
+Away flew the Butterfly's Wife to her husband, and in five minutes they
+were quarrelling worse than ever.
+
+'Remember!' said the Butterfly. 'Remember what I can do if I stamp my
+foot.'
+
+'I don't believe you one little bit,' said the Butterfly's Wife. 'I
+should very much like to see it done. Suppose you stamp now.'
+
+'I promised Suleiman-bin-Daoud that I wouldn't,' said the Butterfly,
+'and I don't want to break my promise.'
+
+'It wouldn't matter if you did,' said his wife. 'You couldn't bend a
+blade of grass with your stamping. I dare you to do it,' she said.
+'Stamp! Stamp! Stamp!'
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud, sitting under the camphor-tree, heard every word of
+this, and he laughed as he had never laughed in his life before. He
+forgot all about his Queens; he forgot all about the Animal that came
+out of the sea; he forgot about showing off. He just laughed with joy,
+and Balkis, on the other side of the tree, smiled because her own true
+love was so joyful.
+
+Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under
+the shadow of the camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, 'She wants me to
+stamp! She wants to see what will happen, O Suleiman-bin-Daoud! You know
+I can't do it, and now she'll never believe a word I say. She'll laugh
+at me to the end of my days!'
+
+'No, little brother,' said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, 'she will never laugh at
+you again,' and he turned the ring on his finger--just for the little
+Butterfly's sake, not for the sake of showing off,--and, lo and behold,
+four huge Djinns came out of the earth!
+
+'Slaves,' said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, 'when this gentleman on my finger'
+(that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) 'stamps his left
+front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a
+clap of thunder. When he stamps again you will bring them back
+carefully.'
+
+'Now, little brother,' he said, 'go back to your wife and stamp all
+you've a mind to.'
+
+Away flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was crying, 'I dare you to do
+it! I dare you to do it! Stamp! Stamp now! Stamp!' Balkis saw the four
+vast Djinns stoop down to the four corners of the gardens with the
+Palace in the middle, and she clapped her hands softly and said, 'At
+last Suleiman-bin-Daoud will do for the sake of a Butterfly what he
+ought to have done long ago for his own sake, and the quarrelsome Queens
+will be frightened!'
+
+Then the Butterfly stamped. The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens
+a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder-clap, and
+everything grew inky-black. The Butterfly's Wife fluttered about in the
+dark, crying, 'Oh, I'll be good! I'm so sorry I spoke. Only bring the
+gardens back, my dear darling husband, and I'll never contradict again.'
+
+The Butterfly was nearly as frightened as his wife, and
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud laughed so much that it was several minutes before he
+found breath enough to whisper to the Butterfly, 'Stamp again, little
+brother. Give me back my Palace, most great magician.'
+
+'Yes, give him back his Palace,' said the Butterfly's Wife, still flying
+about in the dark like a moth. 'Give him back his Palace, and don't
+let's have any more horrid magic.'
+
+'Well, my dear,' said the Butterfly as bravely as he could, 'you see
+what your nagging has led to. Of course it doesn't make any difference
+to _me_--I'm used to this kind of thing--but as a favour to you and to
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud I don't mind putting things right.'
+
+[Illustration: THIS is the picture of the four gull-winged Djinns
+lifting up Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace the very minute after the
+Butterfly had stamped. The Palace and the gardens and everything came up
+in one piece like a board, and they left a big hole in the ground all
+full of dust and smoke. If you look in the corner, close to the thing
+that looks like a lion, you will see Suleiman-bin-Daoud with his magic
+stick and the two Butterflies behind him. The thing that looks like a
+lion is really a lion carved in stone, and the thing that looks like a
+milk-can is really a piece of a temple or a house or something.
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud stood there so as to be out of the way of the dust
+and the smoke when the Djinns lifted up the Palace. I don't know the
+Djinns' names. They were servants of Suleiman-bin-Daoud's magic ring,
+and they changed about every day. They were just common gull-winged
+Djinns.
+
+The thing at the bottom is a picture of a very friendly Djinn called
+Akraig. He used to feed the little fishes in the sea three times a day,
+and his wings were made of pure copper. I put him in to show you what a
+nice Djinn is like. He did not help to lift the Palace. He was busy
+feeding little fishes in the Arabian Sea when it happened.]
+
+So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace
+and the gardens, without even a bump. The sun shone on the dark-green
+orange leaves; the fountains played among the pink Egyptian lilies; the
+birds went on singing, and the Butterfly's Wife lay on her side under
+the camphor-tree waggling her wings and panting, 'Oh, I'll be good! I'll
+be good!'
+
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud could hardly speak for laughing. He leaned back all
+weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, 'O
+great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the
+same time you slay me with mirth!'
+
+Then came a terrible noise, for all the nine hundred and ninety-nine
+Queens ran out of the Palace shrieking and shouting and calling for
+their babies. They hurried down the great marble steps below the
+fountain, one hundred abreast, and the Most Wise Balkis went statelily
+forward to meet them and said, 'What is your trouble, O Queens?'
+
+They stood on the marble steps one hundred abreast and shouted, '_What_
+is our trouble? We were living peacefully in our golden palace, as is
+our custom, when upon a sudden the Palace disappeared, and we were left
+sitting in a thick and noisome darkness; and it thundered, and Djinns
+and Afrits moved about in the darkness! _That_ is our trouble, O Head
+Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble,
+for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.'
+
+Then Balkis the Most Beautiful Queen--Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Very Best
+Beloved--Queen that was of Sheba and Sabie and the Rivers of the Gold of
+the South--from the Desert of Zinn to the Towers of Zimbabwe--Balkis,
+almost as wise as the Most Wise Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself, said, 'It is
+nothing, O Queens! A Butterfly has made complaint against his wife
+because she quarrelled with him, and it has pleased our Lord
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud to teach her a lesson in low-speaking and humbleness,
+for that is counted a virtue among the wives of the butterflies.'
+
+Then up and spoke an Egyptian Queen--the daughter of a Pharaoh--and she
+said, 'Our Palace cannot be plucked up by the roots like a leek for the
+sake of a little insect. No! Suleiman-bin-Daoud must be dead, and what
+we heard and saw was the earth thundering and darkening at the news.'
+
+Then Balkis beckoned that bold Queen without looking at her, and said to
+her and to the others, 'Come and see.'
+
+They came down the marble steps, one hundred abreast, and beneath his
+camphor-tree, still weak with laughing, they saw the Most Wise King
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud rocking back and forth with a Butterfly on either
+hand, and they heard him say, 'O wife of my brother in the air, remember
+after this, to please your husband in all things, lest he be provoked to
+stamp his foot yet again; for he has said that he is used to this magic,
+and he is most eminently a great magician--one who steals away the very
+Palace of Suleiman-bin-Daoud himself. Go in peace, little folk!' And he
+kissed them on the wings, and they flew away.
+
+Then all the Queens except Balkis--the Most Beautiful and Splendid
+Balkis, who stood apart smiling--fell flat on their faces, for they
+said, 'If these things are done when a Butterfly is displeased with his
+wife, what shall be done to us who have vexed our King with our
+loud-speaking and open quarrelling through many days?'
+
+Then they put their veils over their heads, and they put their hands
+over their mouths, and they tiptoed back to the Palace most mousy-quiet.
+
+Then Balkis--The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis--went forward
+through the red lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and laid her
+hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud's shoulder and said, 'O my Lord and
+Treasure of my Soul, rejoice, for we have taught the Queens of Egypt and
+Ethiopia and Abyssinia and Persia and India and China with a great and a
+memorable teaching.'
+
+And Suleiman-bin-Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they
+played in the sunlight, said, 'O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when
+did this happen? For I have been jesting with a Butterfly ever since I
+came into the garden.' And he told Balkis what he had done.
+
+Balkis--The tender and Most Lovely Balkis--said, 'O my Lord and Regent
+of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all. It was I
+who told the Butterfly's Wife to ask the Butterfly to stamp, because I
+hoped that for the sake of the jest my Lord would make some great magic
+and that the Queens would see it and be frightened.' And she told him
+what the Queens had said and seen and thought.
+
+Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud rose up from his seat under the camphor-tree,
+and stretched his arms and rejoiced and said, 'O my Lady and Sweetener
+of my Days, know that if I had made a magic against my Queens for the
+sake of pride or anger, as I made that feast for all the animals, I
+should certainly have been put to shame. But by means of your wisdom I
+made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little
+Butterfly, and--behold--it has also delivered me from the vexations of
+my vexatious wives! Tell me, therefore, O my Lady and Heart of my Heart,
+how did you come to be so wise?'
+
+And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into
+Suleiman-bin-Daoud's eyes and put her head a little on one side, just
+like the Butterfly, and said, 'First, O my Lord, because I loved you;
+and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women-folk are.'
+
+Then they went up to the Palace and lived happily ever afterwards.
+
+But wasn't it clever of Balkis?
+
+
+          THERE was never a Queen like Balkis,
+            From here to the wide world's end;
+          But Balkis talked to a butterfly
+            As you would talk to a friend.
+
+          There was never a King like Solomon,
+            Not since the world began;
+          But Solomon talked to a butterfly
+            As a man would talk to a man.
+
+          _She_ was Queen of Sabaea--
+            And _he_ was Asia's Lord--
+          But they both of 'em talked to butterflies
+            When they took their walks abroad!
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+Page 157, "waiving" changed to "waving" (Tegumai, waving his)
+
+Page 159, caption "19" was added to illustration.
+
+Page 198, "you" changed to "your" (Wipe your feet)
+
+Page 211, "Your" changed to "You" (You are neither a)
+
+Page 213, "ths" changed to "the" (and the Woman heard him)
+
+Page 225, word "is" added to text (but this is not one)
+
+Page 244, "Pharoah" changed to "Pharaoh" (daughter of a Pharaoh)
+
+Page 278, "Sueliman" changed to "Suleiman" (Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud
+rose up)
+
+
+
+
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