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In one of his "Just So Stories," Kipling suggested the leopard got its spots because the animal moved to an environment "'sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows."
How the leopard got his spots -- really Melissa Bell 2010
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In Kipling's 1902 tale, an Ethiopian hunter paints spots on a leopard to help it blend into the "speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows" of the forest.
How the leopard really got his spots Ian Sample 2010
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Just So Stories of 1902, the 'How The Leopard Got His Spots' story describes how an Ethiopian hunter paints spots on a leopard to help it blend into the "speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows" of the forest.
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(adjective) - Black, dirty. From blatch, soot or dirt; to smirch with black. --J. Drummond Robertson's Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester, 1890
April 22, 2018