Just So Stories Just So Stories Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated
Leopard of the Yelagiri Hills twice, hitting its throat and chest. The next morning, the leopard's body was found. It was described as: Leopard of the Yelagiri Hills The Leopard of the Yelagiri Hills was a man eating Indian Leopard which claimed three victims in the vicinity of the Yelagiris, a crescent formation of hills east of the Jolarpet Junction railway on the Southern Railway. It was killed by Kenneth Anderson, who described it as thus; The leopard originally limited itself to killing the cows of a herdsman named Nathan, who, over a three-month period, lost four of his animals to the beast. Two other