# Kipling's Just So Stories: Where is this text? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiplings-just-so-stories-where-is-this-text/82268 "2001-09-17T22:39:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiplings-just-so-stories-where-is-this-text/82268/1 "2001-09-17T22:39:48Z")
In 1978 I visited the Exploratorium, an interactive science museum in San Francisco. One audio exhibit included a narration apparently from that collection of Kipling’s stories: _There was no corn or melons or sugar cane or any of the small huts such as we have all seen…_ _Fa [?] the elephant…where he blew with his trunk the trees fell…_ _That of all things he most feared–man. And there was a mutter of agreement…_ I recently found a copy of _Just So Stories_ in a local library but couldn’t find the text, and the story titles, in the Table of Contents, were no help. Are there any Dopers familiar enough with Kipling’s writings to identify this text? Thanks very mnuch. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiplings-just-so-stories-where-is-this-text/82268/2 "2001-09-17T22:51:58Z")
From [this site](http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/), it seems like it comes from [The Elephant’s Child](http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/elefant.htm). * * * Jeg elsker dig, Thomas ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiplings-just-so-stories-where-is-this-text/82268/3 "2001-09-17T22:56:41Z")
I found this. From kipling’s [\* How Fear Came](http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SecondJungleBook/fearcame.html)\*, from the Second Jungle Book > [@](#): > > ‘In those days there was no corn or melons or pepper or sugar-cane, nor were there any little huts such as ye have all seen; and the Jungle People knew nothing of Man, but lived in the Jungle together, making one people. But presently they began to dispute over their food, though there was grazing enough for all. They were lazy. Each wished to eat where he lay, as sometimes we can do now when the spring rains are good. Tha, the First of the Elephants, was busy making new jungles and leading the rivers in their beds. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiplings-just-so-stories-where-is-this-text/82268/4 "2001-09-17T23:03:48Z")
Thanks, Arden. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiplings-just-so-stories-where-is-this-text/82268/5 "2001-09-17T23:08:19Z")
I live to serve. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiplings-just-so-stories-where-is-this-text/82268/6 "2001-09-18T00:26:54Z")
Nailed that one Arden Ranger. I thought I was the only one who liked Kipling in these politically correct times. I love the jungle books but Kim is my favorite.