He asked , ` What does the Crocodile have for dinner ? ' Then everybody said , ` Hush ! ' in a loud and dretful tone , and they spanked him immediately and directly , without stopping , for a long time . By and by , when that was finished , he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush , and he said , ` My father has spanked me , and my mother has spanked me ; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my ` satiable curtiosity ; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner ! ' Then Kolokolo Bird said , with a mournful cry , ` Go to the banks of the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo River , all set about with fever-trees , and find out . ' That very next morning , when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes , because the Precession had preceded according to precedent , this ` satiable Elephant 's Child took a hundred pounds of bananas -LRB- the little short red kind -RRB- , and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane -LRB- the long purple kind -RRB- , and seventeen melons -LRB- the greeny-crackly kind -RRB- , and said to all his dear families , ` Goodbye . I am going to the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo River , all set about with fever-trees , to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner . ' And they all spanked him once more for luck , though he asked them most politely to stop . Then he went away , a little warm , but not at all astonished , eating melons , and throwing the rind about , because he could not pick it up . He went from Graham 's Town to Kimberley , and from Kimberley to Khama 's Country , and from Khama 's Country he went east by north , eating melons all the time , till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo River , all set about with fever-trees , precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said . Now you must know and understand , O Best Beloved , that till that very week , and day , and hour , and minute , this ` satiable Elephant 's Child had never seen a Crocodile , and did not know what one was like . It was all his ` satiable curtiosity . The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock . '' Scuse me , ' said the Elephant 's Child most politely , ` but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts ? ' ` Have I seen a Crocodile ? ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake , in a voice of dretful scorn . ` What will you ask me next ? ' '' Scuse me , ' said the Elephant 's Child , ` but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner ? ' Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly from the rock , and spanked the Elephant 's Child with his scalesome , flailsome tail . ` That is odd , ' said the Elephant 's Child , ` because my father and my mother , and my uncle and my aunt , not to mention my other aunt , the Hippopotamus , and my other uncle , the Baboon , have all spanked me for my ` satiable curtiosity -- and I suppose this is the same thing .
So he said good-bye very politely to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake , and helped to coil him up on the rock again , and went on , a little warm , but not at all astonished , eating melons , and throwing the XXXXX about , because he could not pick it up , till he trod on what he thought was a log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo River , all set about with fever-trees .
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