I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

The Elephant's Child

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Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." Just So Stories. Macmillan and Co., 1902.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Elephant's Child." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

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