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Read “Just So Stories” by Rudyard Kipling in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
дорожить, лелеять
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Just So Stories” begins
The week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again with her Daddy.
Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished.
Presently she began to giggle, and her Daddy said, “Don’t be silly, child.”
“But wasn’t it inciting!” said Taffy.
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About the book
Why Just So Stories is a great book to read in English
How the camel got his hump, how the elephant got his trunk, how the alphabet was invented — Kipling's origin tales were written to be read aloud, full of rhythm and repeated phrases. That repetition is a gift to early learners: the patterns teach themselves.
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