Just So Stories for Little Children (1902)
"How the Whale Got His Throat" – First published in St Nicholas Magazine, December 1897, as "How the Whale Got His Tiny Throat".
Story is inspired by state flag of Massachusetts
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THE WHALE = USA
a small ‘Stute Fish, = statue of liberty
Noble and generous Cetacean = Long Island
latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), = N. Y. City
a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders, and a jack-knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, = state flag of Massachusetts & Brooklyn suspension Bridge
a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity. = Moto on state flag of Massachusetts
the Whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail = Shape of N. Y. state
and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn’t, = City noise
the white-cliffs-of-Albion, = Vermont
‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the Fitchburg Road;’ = Kipling live in Massachusetts
an Hi-ber-ni-an. = Anglo-indian
the Door-sills of the Equator. = concrete walls, up to 20 feet
Why, then you will know (if you haven’t guessed) You’re ‘Fifty North and Forty West!’ = I gest corectly
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