How the Camel Got His Hump

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...
The Elephant’s Child

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...
How the Rhino Got His Skin

How the Rhino Got His Skin

How the Rhino 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...