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
Kpo the Leopard featuring "fabulous animals" such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", E. Nesbit's "Psammead", T. S. Eliot's "Mr. Mistoffelees", and "Rollicum Bitem the Fox" by John Masefield. Kpo the Leopard Kpo the Leopard is an African wildlife story about a female leopard-cub written by French children's writer René Guillot (1900–1969), who lived, worked and travelled for much of his life in French Africa. Set initially in the African jungle, the story moves, after Kpo and her mother escape from a forest fire, to new hunting-grounds in the African Plain, and tells the story of Kpo's adventures as she matures into a