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.

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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Return to the Rudyard Kipling library , or . . . Read the next poem; How The Whale Got His Throat (poem)

Or read more short stories for kids in our Children's Library