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
The Wind (poem) similar use is made of the letters R, S, D, and finally H. Dafydd took this poetic device, known as "cymeriad", from the older poetic form of "awdl", a kind of poem much used by court poets of the preceding centuries for poems of praise addressed to their patrons. He employed it in several of his "cywyddau". "The Wind" is cast in a form closely associated with Dafydd, the poem in which a messenger or "llatai", usually a bird or animal, is sent to the poet's lover. It is a good example of how Dafydd's works in this form can