Then he climbed to the top of his palm-tree and waited for the Rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on . And the Rhinoceros did . He buttoned it up with the three buttons , and it tickled like cake crumbs in bed . Then he wanted to scratch , but that made it worse ; and then he lay down on the sands and rolled and rolled and rolled , and every time he rolled the cake crumbs tickled him worse and worse and worse . Then he ran to the palm-tree and rubbed and rubbed and rubbed himself against it . He rubbed so much and so hard that he rubbed his skin into a great fold over his shoulders , and another fold underneath , where the buttons used to be -LRB- but he rubbed the buttons off -RRB- , and he rubbed some more folds over his legs . And it spoiled his temper , but it did n't make the least difference to the cake-crumbs . They were inside his skin and they tickled . So he went home , very angry indeed and horribly scratchy ; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper , all on account of the cake-crumbs inside . But the Parsee came down from his palm-tree , wearing his hat , from which the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour , packed up his cooking-stove , and went away in the direction of Orotavo , Amygdala , the Upland Meadows of Anantarivo , and the Marshes of Sonaput . THIS Uninhabited Island Is off Cape Gardafui , By the Beaches of Socotra And the Pink Arabian Sea : But it 's hot -- too hot from Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go In a P. and O. And call on the Cake-Parsee ! HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS IN the days when everybody started fair , Best Beloved , the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt . ` Member it was n't the Low Veldt , or the Bush Veldt , or the Sour Veldt , but the ` sclusively bare , hot , shiny High Veldt , where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ` sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass . The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there ; and they were ` sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over ; but the Leopard , he was the ` sclusivest sandiest-yellowish-brownest of them all -- a greyish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast , and he matched the ` sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair . This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of them ; for he would lie down by a ` sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish stone or clump of grass , and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives . He would indeed ! And , also , there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows -LRB- a ` sclusively greyish-brownish-yellowish man he was then -RRB- , who lived on the High Veldt with the Leopard ; and the two used to hunt together -- the Ethiopian with his bows and arrows , and the Leopard ` sclusively with his teeth and claws -- till the Giraffe and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga and all the rest of them did n't know which way to jump , Best Beloved . They did n't indeed ! After a long time -- things lived for ever so long in those days -- they learned to avoid anything that looked like a Leopard or an Ethiopian ; and bit by bit -- the Giraffe began it , because his legs were the longest -- they went away from the High Veldt . They scuttled for days and days and days till they came to a great forest , ` sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy , speckly , patchy-blatchy shadows , and there they hid : and after another long time , what with standing half in the shade and half out of it , and what with the slippery-slidy shadows of the trees falling on them , the Giraffe grew blotchy , and the Zebra grew stripy , and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker , with little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk ; and so , though you could hear them and smell them , you could very seldom see them , and then only when you knew precisely where to look .
They had a beautiful time in the ` sclusively speckly-spickly shadows of the forest , while the XXXXX and the Ethiopian ran about over the ` sclusively greyish-yellowish-reddish High Veldt outside , wondering where all their breakfasts and their dinners and their teas had gone .
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