Short Stories Online, Day 3

Something light for Friday morning!

'How the First Letter Was Written', by Rudyard Kipling

I remember my father giving me a copy of Just So Stories. I was probably too young to appreciate that he'd read them, too, when he was a little boy -- back in prehistoric times, as far as I was concerned.

I do love Kipling's illustrations. And I hadn't realised, 'til rereading this morning, that the story was explicitly set in Britain ...