` You could n't have done that with a mere-smear nose . Try and eat a little now . ' Before he thought what he was doing the Elephant 's Child put out his trunk and plucked a large bundle of grass , dusted it clean against his fore-legs , and stuffed it into his own mouth . ` Vantage number two ! ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake . ` You could n't have done that with a mear-smear nose . Do n't you think the sun is very hot here ? ' ` It is , ' said the Elephant 's Child , and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo , and slapped it on his head , where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears . ` Vantage number three ! ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake . ` You could n't have done that with a mere-smear nose . Now how do you feel about being spanked again ? ' '' Scuse me , ' said the Elephant 's Child , ` but I should not like it at all . ' ` How would you like to spank somebody ? ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake . ' 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 XXXXX grass up from the ground , instead of going on his knees as he used to do .
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