Long ago (or, as one might say, In the High and Far-off Times, Oh my Best Beloved) I recorded this for my Best Beloved. For a long time, there was only that one copy, on a CD, and no other. But today my delightful nephew requested that I record this very story, and, lo, I already had a copy.

Here it is – The Beginning of the Armadillos, by Rudyard Kipling.