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Quotation from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

“Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who.”

Rudyard Kipling (spoken by Poem after The Elephant's Child)

Just So Stories, The Elephant's Child, closing verses (Project Gutenberg #2781)

Portrait of Rudyard Kipling

The poem names the six honest serving-men, the questions that taught the speaker all he knew.

Citation: "Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who." — Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, The Elephant's Child, closing verses (Project Gutenberg #2781). (id just-so-stories-q3)

Virtues: Prudence

Portrait: Just So Stories Kipling 1902, w:Rudyard Kipling, Public domain.

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