Re: Just-so stories

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keith@GECKO.BIOL.WITS.AC.ZA (Keith Norris) writes:

>I ahve an urgent, yet odd request. can anybody PLEASE tell em who wrote the
>just-so stories i.e. how the elephant got its trunk etc.

Rudyard Kipling, I believe.

Of course, he didn't invent them, he only wrote down the stories that
the animals told. I believe..

Peter

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