The Elephant's Child (8)

The Elephant's Child (8)

Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake scuffed down from the bank and said, " My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster " (and by this he meant the Crocodile)
"will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson. "

This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake always talk.



Then the Elephant's Child sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch.

And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled. 

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