Re: Just-so stories

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Peter Card wrote:
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> keith@GECKO.BIOL.WITS.AC.ZA (Keith Norris) writes:
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> >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.
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> Rudyard Kipling, I believe.
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> Of course, he didn't invent them, he only wrote down the stories that
> the animals told. I believe..
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> Peter
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Kipling did write them, I have a copy in front of me now.

Wally

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He's some dumb, he not only doesn't know anything,

   He doesn't suspect anything. - unknown

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