` Come hither , Little One , ' said the Crocodile . ` Why do you ask such things ? ' '' Scuse me , ' said the Elephant 's Child most politely , ` but my father has spanked me , my mother has spanked me , not to mention my tall aunt , the Ostrich , and my tall uncle , the Giraffe , who can kick ever so hard , as well as my broad aunt , the Hippopotamus , and my hairy uncle , the Baboon , and including the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake , with the scalesome , flailsome tail , just up the bank , who spanks harder than any of them ; and so , if it 's quite all the same to you , I do n't want to be spanked any more . ' ` Come hither , Little One , ' said the Crocodile , ` for I am the Crocodile , ' and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true . Then the Elephant 's Child grew all breathless , and panted , and kneeled down on the bank and said , ` You are the very person I have been looking for all these long days . Will you please tell me what you have for dinner ? ' ` Come hither , Little One , ' said the Crocodile , ` and I 'll whisper . ' Then the Elephant 's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile 's musky , tusky mouth , and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose , which up to that very week , day , hour , and minute , had been no bigger than a boot , though much more useful . ' I think , said the Crocodile -- and he said it between his teeth , like this -- ' I think to-day I will begin with Elephant 's Child ! ' At this , O Best Beloved , the Elephant 's Child was much annoyed , and he said , speaking through his nose , like this , ` Led go ! You are hurtig be ! ' Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake scuffled down from the bank and said , ` My young friend , if you do not now , immediately and instantly , pull as hard as ever you can , it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster ' -LRB- and by this he meant the Crocodile -RRB- ` will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson . ' This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk . Then the Elephant 's Child sat back on his little haunches , and pulled , and pulled , and pulled , and his nose began to stretch . And the Crocodile floundered into the water , making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail , and he pulled , and pulled , and pulled . And the Elephant 's Child 's nose kept on stretching ; and the Elephant 's Child spread all his little four legs and pulled , and pulled , and pulled , and his nose kept on stretching ; and the Crocodile threshed his tail like an oar , and he pulled , and pulled , and pulled , and at each pull the Elephant 's Child 's nose grew longer and longer -- and it hurt him hijjus ! Then the Elephant 's Child felt his legs slipping , and he said through his nose , which was now nearly five feet long , ` This is too butch for be ! ' 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 traveller , 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 ' -LRB- and by this , O Best Beloved , he meant the Crocodile -RRB- , ` will permanently vitiate your future career . That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes 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 of the Elephant 's Child 's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo .
Then the Elephant 's Child sat down most hard and sudden ; but first he was careful to say ` Thank you ' to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake ; and next he was kind to his poor pulled nose , and wrapped it all up in cool banana leaves , and hung it in the great grey-green , greasy XXXXX to cool .
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