Just So Stories

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Boris Karloff Reads FromTHE JUST SO STORIESHow the Whale Got His ThroatHow the Camel Got His HumpHow the Rhinoceros Got His Skinand THE JUNGLE BOOKMowgli's Brothers (abridged) All by Rudyard Kipling As everyone knows, Mr. Kipling's animals are the ones most worth knowing anywhere. In the Just So Stories, we meet them when the world was new — so new, in fact, that the Rhinoceros (imagine!) had not yet lost his buttons, and the Whale was still fond of eating nubbly sailors, and the Camel could humph himself along with impunity (which is, of course, the only possible way in which to humph yourself).And then there is Mowgli, who would gladly have remained a wolf till his life's end, except for a boy-hating tiger named Shere Khan. Boris Karloff knows all of them well and tells their stories lovingly.