How does he do that?

Kipling was AMAZING! How did he always come up with the right words at the right time?
Just So Stories is hilarious. But half of it is in Kipling's illustrations. He illustrated it himself and gave goofy discriptions of the pictures. I remember the story of how the whale got his baleen, and the picture of the man pulling his raft into the whale's throat. Rudyard explained below the illustration that the black looking thing was the whale, and the little white thing in his mouth was the man's knife that the man had dropped while getting out. Really, that's half the humor! I suggest that after you read the book on DailyLit. you find a copy at your library with illustrations and just read all of Kipling's descriptions. (He really was a pretty bad artist, too.)

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