` But it 's very useful , ' and he picked up his hairy uncle , the Baboon , by one hairy leg , and hove him into a hornet 's nest . Then that bad Elephant 's Child spanked all his dear families for a long time , till they were very warm and greatly astonished . He pulled out his tall Ostrich aunt 's tail-feathers ; and he caught his tall uncle , the Giraffe , by the hind-leg , and dragged him through a thorn-bush ; and he shouted at his broad aunt , the Hippopotamus , and blew bubbles into her ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals ; but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird . At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo River , all set about with fever-trees , to borrow new noses from the Crocodile . When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more ; and ever since that day , O Best Beloved , all the Elephants you will ever see , besides all those that you wo n't , have trunks precisely like the trunk of the ` satiable Elephant 's Child . I Keep six honest serving-men : -LRB- They taught me all I knew -RRB- Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who . I send them over land and sea , I send them east and west ; But after they have worked for me , I give them all a rest . I let them rest from nine till five . For I am busy then , As well as breakfast , lunch , and tea , For they are hungry men : But different folk have different views : I know a person small -- She keeps ten million serving-men , Who get no rest at all ! She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs , From the second she opens her eyes -- One million Hows , two million Wheres , And seven million Whys ! THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him , but a Different Animal with four short legs . He was grey and he was woolly , and his pride was inordinate : he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia , and he went to the Little God Nqa . He went to Nqa at six before breakfast , saying , ` Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon . ' Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sandflat and shouted , ` Go away ! ' He was grey and he was woolly , and his pride was inordinate : he danced on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia , and he went to the Middle God Nquing . He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast , saying , ` Make me different from all other animals ; make me , also , wonderfully popular by five this afternoon . ' Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted , ` Go away ! ' He was grey and he was woolly , and his pride was inordinate : he danced on a sandbank in the middle of Australia , and he went to the Big God Nqong . He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time , saying , ` Make me different from all other animals ; make me popular and wonderfully run after by five this afternoon . ' Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan and shouted , ` Yes , I will ! '
Nqong called Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo -- always hungry , dusty in the sunshine , and showed him XXXXX .
Australia Kangaroo Kolokolo Ostrich afternoon grey-green salt-pan sandflat spinifex tail-feathers