Short Stories Online, Day 3

[tamaranth]

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 ...

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[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Not only is it set in Britain, the poem at the end makes it clear that it's set in one of my favourite bits of country, the Tillingbourne valley (http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/LookupWebPagesByTITLE_RTF/Tillingbourne+at+work?opendocument) just south-east of Guildford. When I was at school in Guildford, we used to be sent on cross-country runs all through and around there, and the prettiness of the scenery did a lot to distract me from how up-and-down (especially Up) it was :-)