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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Rudyard Kipling

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

A rude Rhinoceros gobbles up a man's enormous cake, and on a very hot day the clever cake baker pays him back with a skin full of tickly cake crumbs, which is why rhinos are wrinkly to this day.

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Chapter 1: The Enormous Cake

Once upon a time, on an island in the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee man called Pestonjee. He had nothing but a little cooking stove and a hat so shiny that it sparkled in the sun more brightly than anything you have ever seen. He lived beside the warm sea, and he loved cake more than anything.

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Chapters in this story

  1. 1.The Enormous Cake
  2. 2.The Rude Rhinoceros
  3. 3.A Very Hot Day
  4. 4.Tickly Cake Crumbs
  5. 5.Why Rhinos Are Wrinkly

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