...for always and always

(study in DS shadow violet)

“When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’
And the Woman said, 

‘His name is not Wild Dog any more,
but the First Friend,
because 

he will be our friend 

for always 

and always 

and always.'”
—Rudyard Kipling 

Scottie (2003-2018)

“When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ 

And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'”

—Rudyard Kipling

Watercolor on Kilimanjaro Paper

Scottie brought much delight in his 15 years of life.

He never outgrew his puppy face or paws.

And that he smiled, was undeniable.

His wag is still now, but his paw prints remain on many a heart.

on the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo

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...and before [the Elephant's Child] thought what he was doing 
he schlooped up 
a schloooop of mud 
from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, 
and slapped it on his head, 
where it made a cool 
schlooopy-sloshy 
mud-cap 
all trickly behind his ears.
~Rudyard Kipling, Just so Stories:The Elephant's Child


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elephant's child

"In the high and far-off times the Elephant,

 O best Beloved, 

had no trunk.  

He had only a 

blackish, 

bulgy nose, 

as big as a boot, 

that he could wriggle about from side to side..."

-Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

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Consequence

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"[The cake-crumbs] were inside his skin and they tickled.

So he went home, 

very angry indeed and horribly scratchy;

and from that day to this 

every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin

and a very bad temper,

all on account of the cake crumbs inside."

Rudyard Kipling - How the Rhinoceros got his Skin