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...................... 4 HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP .......................................................................................... 7 HOW THE RHINOCEROS .......................................................................................................... 11 GOT HIS SKIN ..............................................................................................

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................................................................... 7 HOW THE RHINOCEROS ................................................................... ... Cameelious hump— Kiddies and grown-ups too! 11 Rudyard Kipling HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN O NCE UPON A TIME, on an uninhabited is land on the... ...ith 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 anyw... ...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... ... 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 s... ...dy 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 do... ...sibly 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. And the Rhinoceros did. ... ...very angry in- deed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on accoun...

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...espassers. In case the invasion was made by some large quadruped, as elephant, rhinoceros, lion, or other dangerous beast, Hanno states that these sen... ...found many savage beasts, such as elephants and unicorns, the latter being the rhinoceros which is still occasionally to be seen on several of the isl... .... The bodies of hairy elephants have also been found, the remains of a kind of rhinoceros covered with wool and hair, and having a horn often five fee...

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...a Swede farm boy, and these foreigners, they all got hides like a covey of rhinoceroses .” “But he is hurt!” “Well— I don’t suppose I ought to have go... ...such en- ergy that it was almost smothering him. Beside it was a celluloid rhinoceros; tight in his hand a torn picture of Old King Cole. “Shhh!” said...

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...pur—possibly you have heard of that—flourished on the bull’s neck; and the rhinoceros rats of the Algerian zouaves are also to be thought of,—monsters... ...ure of ape and goat. There were three Swine-men and a Swine-woman, a mare- rhinoceros-creature, and several other females whose sources I did not asce... ...oofs. After him from the brake came a monstrous lout, a thing of horse and rhinoceros, chewing a straw as it came; then appeared the Swine-woman and t... ... twigs snap and the boughs swish aside before the heavy tread of the Horse-rhinoceros upon my right. Then suddenly through a polygon of green, in the ...

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...the last line of fortifications, the brave old man raised me from the dead rhinoceros on which I was seated, and pressed me to his breast. But the exc... ...d no extract from a news- paper, and does not quite prove that he killed a rhinoceros and stormed fourteen entrenchments at the siege of Allyghur. 21...

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...at man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerve...

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...e fourth clerk, giving him a slap on the shoulder that might have killed a rhinoceros. There was a storm of cat-calls, cries, and exclamations, which ...

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...: 1377 Approach thou like the rugged Russian Beare, 1378 The arm’d Rhinoceros, or th’ Hircan Tiger, 1379 Take any shape but that, and my f...

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...a corrugated suit and bibbed apron, apparently a composite of door-mat and rhinoceros-hide. “Respecting this same boarding and lodging, Y oung Master ... ...culations, and en- 39 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins tering them in a rhinoceros-hide-looking note-book, like a piece of himself. “They’ll be at ...

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... thrown open, and absolutely savage beasts were let loose upon one another—rhinoceroses and tigers, bulls and lions, leop- ards and wild boars—while t...

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...ch these giants (against which terres- trial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed. The industrial ...

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...od broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing be tween a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. Now, being prepared for a...

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... good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. Now, being prepared for a...

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...les, there were hippopotami at one time upon the stage: there was also the rhinoceros, and the still rarer crocuta or corocotta, with a few strepsiker... ...land and Galloway, the unicorn from the re- gions of Nepaul or Thibet, the rhinoceros and the river-horse from Senegal, with the elephant of Ceylon or...

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...able ap- peals, he saw Caterham as something, something like a mon- strous rhinoceros, as it were, a civilised rhinoceros begotten of the jungle of de...

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...n modern warfare, so that the armour seems rather like the integument of a rhinoceros. At the sides of the head project armoured checks, and from abov...

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...He has a good heart.’ The phrase means: ‘The poor fellow is as stupid as a rhinoceros.’ But as I am rich, and known to hit the bull’s-eye at thirty pa...

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...igeon’s-blood rubies; there were shields of lacquer, of tortoise-shell and rhinoceros-hide, strapped and bossed with red gold and set with emeralds at...

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..., and received the first attack _315 Like so many rhinoceroses, and then Retreating in good order, with bare tusks And wrinkl...

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... a hedger’s. Both as to his dress and to himself, he was of an overlapping rhinoceros build, with folds in his cheeks, and his forehead, and his eyeli...