Nigger singers with their faces blacked singing minstrel songs. In the song "", the Mikado sings of the punishment for older women who dye their hair or wear corsets, to be "Blacked like a nigger/With permanent walnut juice." Both lyrics are usually changed for modern performances. The word "nigger" appears in children's literature. "How the Leopard Got His Spots", in the "Just So Stories" (1902) by Rudyard Kipling, tells of an Ethiopian man and a leopard, both originally sand-colored, deciding to camouflage themselves with painted spots, for hunting in tropical forest. The story originally included a scene wherein the leopard (now
How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon a bundle of sticks herself. So Ian burned her, married the princess, and lived ever afterwards in friendship with Gille Mairtean the fox. How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon "How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon" is a Scottish fairy tale, collected by John Francis Campbell in "Popular Tales of the West Highlands". He recorded it from a quarryman in Knockderry, Roseneath, named Angus Campbell. Andrew Lang included it in "The Orange Fairy Book". A king and a queen had a son, Ian. When Ian was almost grown to a man, his mother died, and his father remarried. One