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title: How the Alphabet Was Made — Just so stories · full text with trees · page 4
description: How the Alphabet Was Made, «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man
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# How the Alphabet Was Made · page 4

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- [301](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/301/) — Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds, And golden elf-locks fly above; Her eyes are bright as diamonds And bluer than the skies above.
- [302](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/302/) — In mocassins and deer-skin cloak, Unfearing, free and fair she flits, And lights her little damp-wood smoke To show her Daddy where she flits.
- [303](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/303/) — For far--oh, very far behind, So far she cannot call to him, Comes Tegumai alone to find The daughter that was all to him.

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