` Member it was n't the Low Veldt , or the Bush Veldt , or the Sour Veldt , but the ` sclusively bare , hot , shiny High Veldt , where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ` sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass . The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there ; and they were ` sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over ; but the Leopard , he was the ` sclusivest sandiest-yellowish-brownest of them all -- a greyish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast , and he matched the ` sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair . This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of them ; for he would lie down by a ` sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish stone or clump of grass , and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives . He would indeed ! And , also , there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows -LRB- a ` sclusively greyish-brownish-yellowish man he was then -RRB- , who lived on the High Veldt with the Leopard ; and the two used to hunt together -- the Ethiopian with his bows and arrows , and the Leopard ` sclusively with his teeth and claws -- till the Giraffe and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga and all the rest of them did n't know which way to jump , Best Beloved . They did n't indeed ! After a long time -- things lived for ever so long in those days -- they learned to avoid anything that looked like a Leopard or an Ethiopian ; and bit by bit -- the Giraffe began it , because his legs were the longest -- they went away from the High Veldt . They scuttled for days and days and days till they came to a great forest , ` sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy , speckly , patchy-blatchy shadows , and there they hid : and after another long time , what with standing half in the shade and half out of it , and what with the slippery-slidy shadows of the trees falling on them , the Giraffe grew blotchy , and the Zebra grew stripy , and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker , with little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk ; and so , though you could hear them and smell them , you could very seldom see them , and then only when you knew precisely where to look . They had a beautiful time in the ` sclusively speckly-spickly shadows of the forest , while the Leopard and the Ethiopian ran about over the ` sclusively greyish-yellowish-reddish High Veldt outside , wondering where all their breakfasts and their dinners and their teas had gone . At last they were so hungry that they ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits , the Leopard and the Ethiopian , and then they had the Big Tummy-ache , both together ; and then they met Baviaan -- the dog-headed , barking Baboon , who is Quite the Wisest Animal in All South Africa . Said Leopard to Baviaan -LRB- and it was a very hot day -RRB- , ` Where has all the game gone ? ' And Baviaan winked . He knew . Said the Ethiopian to Baviaan , ` Can you tell me the present habitat of the aboriginal Fauna ? ' -LRB- That meant just the same thing , but the Ethiopian always used long words . He was a grown-up . -RRB- And Baviaan winked . He knew . Then said Baviaan , ` The game has gone into other spots ; and my advice to you , Leopard , is to go into other spots as soon as you can . ' And the Ethiopian said , ` That is all very fine , but I wish to know whither the aboriginal Fauna has migrated . '
Then said XXXXX , ` The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change ; and my advice to you , Ethiopian , is to change as soon as you can . '
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