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Originally Posted by Daithi
Is is something by Rudyard Kipling?
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No, the author was a bit younger than Kipling.
This should give it away, if you know it at all. From the first chapter: "Which explains how, why, when and where there was ever any problem in the first place,"
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"Tut! Calm yourself, mamma, " Aladdin soothed her. "A day-old baby doesn't talk!"
"I know it doesn't!" replied the Widow Twankey loudley. "And I know how old my grandson is, to the minute; but he still called me a button-nosed tortoise! So don't just stand there, Aladdin! Do something!"
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