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  • Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Country, and from Khama's Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "the banks of the great, grey-green, greasy, Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees," and "'Scuse me," are but a few of those expressions for which the child will watch as eagerly as one does for a signal light known to be due.

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

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