He said nothing whatever about the Parsee 's cake , because he had eaten it all ; and he never had any manners , then , since , or henceforward . He waddled straight into the water and blew bubbles through his nose , leaving his skin on the beach . Presently the Parsee came by and found the skin , and he smiled one smile that ran all round his face two times . Then he danced three times round the skin and rubbed his hands . Then he went to his camp and filled his hat with cake-crumbs , for the Parsee never ate anything but cake , and never swept out his camp . He took that skin , and he shook that skin , and he scrubbed that skin , and he rubbed that skin just as full of old , dry , stale , tickly cake-crumbs and some burned currants as ever it could possibly hold . 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 XXXXX 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 .
Giraffe Koodoo Orotavo Parsee Rhinoceros Sonaput Suez crumbs days henceforward