. Just so stories for litle children. nd lived happily everafterward, Best Beloved. That is all. Oh, now and then you will hear grown-upssay, Can the Ethiopian change his skin orthe Leopard his spots ? I dont think evengrown - ups would keep on saying such asilly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopianhadnt done it once—do you ? But they willnever do it again, Best Beloved. They arequite contented as they are. I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, Let us melt into the landscape—just us two by our have come — in a carriage — calling. But Mummy is , I can go
. Just so stories for litle children. nd lived happily everafterward, Best Beloved. That is all. Oh, now and then you will hear grown-upssay, Can the Ethiopian change his skin orthe Leopard his spots ? I dont think evengrown - ups would keep on saying such asilly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopianhadnt done it once—do you ? But they willnever do it again, Best Beloved. They arequite contented as they are. I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, Let us melt into the landscape—just us two by our have come — in a carriage — calling. But Mummy is , I can go if you take me—Nurse says she dont go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails!Lets say things to the bunnies, and watch em skitter their tails :Lets—oh, anything, daddy, so long as its you and me,And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea !Heres your boots (Ive brought em), and heres your cap and stick,And heres your pipe and tobacco. Oh, come along out of it —quick. 61 THE ELEPHANTS CHILD. N the High and Far-OffTimes the Elephant, OBest Beloved, had notrunk. He had only ablackish, bulgy nose, asbig as a boot, that hecould wriggle aboutfrom side to side; buthe couldnt pick upthings with it. Butthere was one Elephant—a new Elephant—anElephants Child—who was full of satiablecurtiosity, and that means he asked ever somany questions. And he lived in Africa, andhe filled all Africa with his satiable asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why hertail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt theOstrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. 63 64 Just So Stories He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what madehis skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe,spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. Andstill he was full of satiable curtiosity! Heasked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, whyher eyes were red, and his broad aunt, the Hip-popotamus, spanked him with her broad, broadhoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon,why mel
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