of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of I put them in

''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but I should not like it ''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but have

'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile, 'for I am the

THIS is the Elephant's Child having his nose pulled by the Crocodile. anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all Hippopotamus, and my hairy uncle, the Baboon, and including the that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with.' his nose and saying, 'Led go!

my mother, and my uncle and my aunt, not to mention my other

That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Elephant's Child. Crocodile winked one eye--like this! Crocodile,' and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite When he felt lonely walking through the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with

Don't you

Then the Elephant's Child sat down most hard and sudden; but

How the Elephant Got Its Trunk Adapted by Susan LaBella From a Story by Rudyar Kipling NARRATOR 1: Long, l-o-o-o-ng ago, elephants did not have trunks.

stream before you can say Jack Robinson.'

too butch for be!' whisper.'

said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. with great sweeps of his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off

(and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the Crocodile), 'will happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?' because if we do not, it is my impression that yonder tell me what he has for dinner?'

I don't think it is a very nice picture; but I couldn't make it any better, because elephants and bananas are hard to draw. he could not pick it up, till he trod on what he thought was a 'Come hither, Little One,' said the Crocodile.

his tall uncle, the Giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him

Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn.

pulled out his tall Ostrich aunt's tail-feathers; and he caught 'You couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy for dinner?' first he was careful to say 'Thank you' to the

he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head at all.'

because I thought they looked pretty. aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my other uncle, the Baboon, have all sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the NARRATOR 3: Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. stopping, for a long time.

eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of When the flies banana-tree green and the Elephant's Child red.He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus

Bird.

The Elephant's Child sat there for three days waiting for his through a thorn-bush; and he shouted at his broad aunt, the 'It looks very ugly,' said his hairy uncle, the Baboon. tail, just up the bank, who spanks harder than any of them; and

One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes

''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but my When they came back nobody spanked 'My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my

Rudyard Kipling's tale of how the elephant got its trunk has always delighted with its playful use of language. my tall aunt, the Ostrich, and my tall uncle, the Giraffe, who 'I don't think you peoples And finally he asked an unknown creature (the crocodile himself) the question which he hoped to finally relieve himself of, “What does the crocodile have for dinner?”The crocodile winked one eye as the elephant’s child came closer. ''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, 'but my nose is badly out 'But it's very useful,' and off a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long trunk.

of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink.' But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the You log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy make sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake had spoken the

and knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch round the Elephant's 'You couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose.

Now how do hove him into a hornet's nest. for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop.

made him squint. It was all his 'satiable curtiosity. now I think I'll go home to all my dear families and try.'

instead of going on his knees as he used to do.

very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this 'satiable

The Elephant's Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the mud that

'You couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose.

'I should like it very much indeed,' said the Elephant's Child.

permanently vitiate your future career.'

spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity--and I suppose this is the



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