` Son , son ! ' said Mother Jaguar ever so many times , graciously waving her tail , ' a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog , and ca n't be anything but a Hedgehog ; and a Tortoise is a Tortoise , and can never be anything else . ' ` But it is n't a Hedgehog , and it is n't a Tortoise . It 's a little bit of both , and I do n't know its proper name . ' ` Nonsense ! ' said Mother Jaguar . ` Everything has its proper name . I should call it `` Armadillo '' till I found out the real one . And I should leave it alone . ' So Painted Jaguar did as he was told , especially about leaving them alone ; but the curious thing is that from that day to this , O Best Beloved , no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo . There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places , of course -LRB- there are some in my garden -RRB- ; but the real old and clever kind , with their scales lying lippety-lappety one over the other , like pine-cone scales , that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days , are always called Armadillos , because they were so clever . So that ; all right , Best Beloved . Do you see ? I 'VE never sailed the Amazon , I 've never reached Brazil ; But the Don and Magdelana , They can go there when they will ! Yes , weekly from Southampton , Great steamers , white and gold , Go rolling down to Rio -LRB- Roll down -- roll down to Rio ! -RRB- And I 'd like to roll to Rio Some day before I 'm old ! I 've never seen a Jaguar , Nor yet an Armadill O dilloing in his armour , And I s ` pose I never will , Unless I go to Rio These wonders to behold -- Roll down -- roll down to Rio -- Roll really down to Rio ! Oh , I 'd love to roll to Rio Some day before I 'm old ! HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man . He was not a Jute or an Angle , or even a Dravidian , which he might well have been , Best Beloved , but never mind why .
He was a Primitive , and he XXXXX cavily in a Cave , and he wore very few clothes , and he could n't read and he could n't write and he did n't want to , and except when he was hungry he was quite happy .
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