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[[File:elephanttrunk_1793.png|frame|How the elephant got its trunk.]]
A series of origin stories [[Children's Literature|for children]] by [[Rudyard Kipling]], first published in 1902. Kipling's ''[[
==== The fables featured in this collection include: ====
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** His wife Balkis is no slouch herself.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: Many of the characters.
* [[Painting the Frost
* [[Playing Pictionary]]: Taffy's attempt to send a message back to her cave in "How The First Letter Was Written".
* [[Public Domain Character]]: Suleiman-bin-Daoud, better known as [[The Bible|King Solomon, son of David]]. As in the one that performed the [[Judgment of Solomon]]. Pretty much everything about him in ''The Butterfly That Stamped'' is taken from The Bible, the Koran, or folklore about him. Balkis, of course, is the Queen of Sheba.
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** Also the Ethiopian in ''How the Leopard Got His Spots''.
* [[Fur Is Clothing|Skin Is Clothing]]: In ''How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin'', the rhinoceros can literally remove his hide like a suit. It even has buttons!
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, of course.
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: How the Ethiopian changes his skin (of course, played for laughs). All we are told is that the Leopard is very impressed.
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