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
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