How the Leopard Got

In the days when everybody started fair Best Beloved the Leopard lived in place

The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Hoodoo and the Harvester lived there; and they were 'exclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over; but the Leopard, he was the 'exclusivity sandiest-yellowish-brownest of them all a grayish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast, and he matched the Veld to one hair. This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of them; for he would lie down by a 'exclusively yellowish-grayish-brownish stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Hoodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bronte-Buck came by he would surprise them out of their jump some lives. He would indeed! And, also, there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows (a 'exclusively grayish-brownish-yellowish man he was then), who lived on the High Veld with the Leopard; and the two used to hunt together the Ethiopian with his bows and arrows, and the Leopard 'exclusively with his teeth and claws till the giraffe and the Eland and the Hoodoo and the Quagmire and all the rest of them didn't know which way to jump, Best Beloved. They didn't indeed!