The Elephant's Child (10)

The Elephant's Child (10)

Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake came down from the bank, and knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch round the Elephant's Child's hind legs, and said,
" Rash and inexperienced traveler, we will now seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling man-of war with the armour-plated upper deck" (and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the Crocodile) " will vitiate your future career.

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

So he pulled, and the Elephant's Child pulled, and the Crocodile pulled ; but the Elephant's Child and the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake pulled hardest; and at last the Crocodile let go off the Elephant's Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo.

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