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How the Whale Got His Throat

Rudyard Kipling

How the Whale Got His Throat

A greedy Whale swallows a clever Mariner, raft and all, but the Mariner leaves something stuck in the Whale's throat. And that is why whales eat only very small fish.

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How the story begins

Chapter 1: The Hungry Whale

Long ago, O my Best Beloved, there lived in the sea a Whale, and he ate fish. He ate the starfish and the garfish, the crab and the dab, the plaice and the dace, the mackerel and the twirly-whirly eel.

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Chapters in this story

  1. 1.The Hungry Whale
  2. 2.The Clever Little Fish
  3. 3.The Mariner on the Raft
  4. 4.Hiccups!
  5. 5.The Grating in the Throat

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