One dark night Benedetto seizes him and threatens to cut his throat. But Hal tells how the King (Henry VII) had just knighted him, not for his craftsmanship and achievements, but because he had saved the King trouble over a small matter. The sword the King used to make him a knight was rusty; this too was ‘the wrong thing’. Hal’s pride had taken a fall. The two craftsmen laugh together at the irony of it, and the hatred between them is gone.

The second book by Rudyard Kipling. “The Bridge-Builders“. There were labour contractors by the half-hundred – fitters and riveters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to direct, under direction, the bevies of workmen – but none knew better than these two, who trusted each other, how the underlings were not to be trusted. They had been tried many times in sudden crises – by slipping of booms, by breaking of tackle, failure of cranes, and the wrath of the river.

Rudyard Kipling “The wrong thing”

For example when you read about a silly, lazy camel, it sometimes reminds you some people in your life, who do not like to do any work. So this book has some educational sense, but mostly it shows how to make educational part of our life a fascinating game and an easy one. And every time Kipling’s imagination and his unusual view of those things surprise a lot all the adults who has read this really amazing and outstanding book.

An interesting fact about one story, “the cat that walked by himself” was that it was written from the real cat story. Kipling presented that cat to his wife for their honey-moon. And his little daughter gave father much advice concerning the book, because this cat was her beloved pet.
You will find here interesting author’s ideas of how the first letter was written or the alphabet was made.

It was written so children-like that you will certainly love a simple style and a humorous manner it was done. And of course you will understand children world better after listening. So make it comfortable and listen….

Table of contents of this free audio book:
How the whale got his throat
How the camel got his hump
How the rhinoceros got his skin
How the leopard got his spots
The elephant’s child
The sing-song of old man kangaroo
The beginning of the armadillos
How the first letter was written
How the alphabet was made
The crab that played with the sea
The cat that walked by himself
The butterfly that stamped

“How the camel got his hump”