Rudyard Kipling

I have had a number of people ask me about the "Best Beloved" bit in the Bike Week V post... no, I've not gone off my rocker (not much anyway) LOL - one of the books that I read as a young boy was Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling; a charming collection of children's fables, told in Kipling's distinctive style - and very politically incorrect by today's standards. Kipling was very much a product of the British Empire, and a product of his times, when the White Man was thought to be supreme... so you have to take a lot of things with a large block of salt. The first of these tales is called "How The Whale Got His Throat", and if you click here, you can read this and all of the "Just So Stories" online - and then, Best Beloved, you will understand. :)