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How the Leopard Got His Spots

Rudyard Kipling

How the Leopard Got His Spots

When all the animals hide in the shadowy forest, the plain sandy Leopard and his friend the Hunter learn a clever trick, and the Leopard gets the spots he still wears today.

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How the story begins

Chapter 1: The Sandy-Yellow Veldt

In the days when everybody started fair, the Leopard lived on a wide, sunny plain called the High Veldt. Everything there was sandy-yellow-brownish: the grass, the rocks, the bushes, and all the animals too. The Giraffe was sandy-yellow, the Zebra was sandy-yellow, and so were the Eland and the Kudu. But the sandiest of all was the Leopard.

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Chapters in this story

  1. 1.The Sandy-Yellow Veldt
  2. 2.Into the Shadowy Forest
  3. 3.Ask Baviaan
  4. 4.Now You See Them
  5. 5.Five Fingertip Spots

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