Just so stories

Because of his "'satiable curiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.

Relates how the rhinoceros's lack of manners resulted in his baggy skin and bad temper.

When the world was new, the camel, a creature of 'scruciating idleness, said "Humph!" too often and received for all time a hump[h] from the Djinn of All Deserts.