I should like it very much indeed , ' said the Elephant 's Child . ` Well , ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake , ` you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with . ' ` Thank you , ' said the Elephant 's Child , ` I 'll remember that ; and now I think I 'll go home to all my dear families and try . ' So the Elephant 's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk . When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree , instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do . When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground , instead of going on his knees as he used to do . When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and used it as fly-whisk ; and he made himself a new , cool , slushy-squshy mud-cap whenever the sun was hot . When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk , and the noise was louder than several brass bands . He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus -LRB- she was no relation of his -RRB- , and he spanked her very hard , to make sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake had spoken the truth about his new trunk . The rest of the time he picked up the melon rinds that he had dropped on his way to the Limpopo -- for he was a Tidy Pachyderm . One dark evening he came back to all his dear families , and he coiled up his trunk and said , ` How do you do ? ' They were very glad to see him , and immediately said , ` Come here and be spanked for your ` satiable curtiosity . ' ` Pooh , ' said the Elephant 's Child . ' I do n't think you peoples know anything about spanking ; but I do , and I 'll show you . ' Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels . ' O Bananas ! ' said they , ` where did you learn that trick , and what have you done to your nose ? ' ' I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo River , ' said the Elephant 's Child . ' I asked him what he had for dinner , and he gave me this to keep . ' ` It looks very ugly , ' said his hairy uncle , the Baboon .
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