How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin (poem)

by Rudyard Kipling

This story and poem are featured in Kipling's Just So Stories (1902).

　　This Uninhabited Island Is near Cape Gardafui; But it's hot, too hot, of Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go in a P. & O. To call on the Cake Parsee. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin 2

I you liked reading this story, enjoy another of Kipling's Just So Stories (1902), The Crab that Played with the Sea. Many of Kipling's Just So Stories are often read in grades 2-3.

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