. Just so stories for litle children. out into a really truly trunk same asall Elephants have to-day. THIS is the Elephants Child having his nose pulled by the is much surprised and astonished and hurt, and he is talking throughhis nose and saying, Led go ! You are hurtig be ! He is pulling veryhard, and so is the Crocodile ; but the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake ishurrying through the water to help the Elephants Child. All that blackstuff is the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (but I amnot allowed to paint these pictures), and the bottly-tree with the twistyro
. Just so stories for litle children. out into a really truly trunk same asall Elephants have to-day. THIS is the Elephants Child having his nose pulled by the is much surprised and astonished and hurt, and he is talking throughhis nose and saying, Led go ! You are hurtig be ! He is pulling veryhard, and so is the Crocodile ; but the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake ishurrying through the water to help the Elephants Child. All that blackstuff is the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (but I amnot allowed to paint these pictures), and the bottly-tree with the twistyroots and the eight leaves is one of the fever trees that grow there. Underneath the truly picture are shadows of African animals walkinginto an African ark. There are two lions, two ostriches, two oxen, twocamels, two sheep, and two other things that look like rats, but I thinkthey are rock-rabbits. They dont mean anything. I put them inbecause I thought they looked pretty. They would look very fine if Iwere allowed to paint them. 72. 73 The Elephants Child 75 At the end of the third day a fly came andstung him on the shoulder, and before he knewwhat he was doing he lifted up his trunk andhit that fly dead with the end of it. Vantage number one 1 said the Bi-Coloured - Python - Rock - Snake. You couldnthave done that with a mere-smear nose. Tryand eat a little now. Before he thought what he was doing theElephants Child put out his trunk and pluckeda large bundle of grass, dusted it clean againsthis fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth. Vantage number two! said the Bi -Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. You couldnthave done that with a mear-smear nose. Dontyou think the sun is very hot here ? It is, said the Elephants Child, and beforehe thought what he was doing he schlooped upa schloop of mud from the banks of the greatgrey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it onhis head, where it made a cool schloopy-sloshymud-cap all trickly behind his ears. 1 Vantage number three ! said th
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