The Elephant's Child (12)

The Elephant's Child (12)

But it never grew any shorter, and besides, it made him squint.

For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day.

At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder, and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that fly dead with the end of it.

" Vantage number one ! " said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake.
" You couldn'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.

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