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 could n'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 . ` Vantage number two ! ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake . ` You could n't have done that with a mear-smear nose . Do n't you think the sun is very hot here ? ' ` It is , ' said the Elephant 's Child , and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-green , greasy Limpopo , and slapped it on his head , where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears . ` Vantage number three ! ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake . ` You could n't have done that with a mere-smear nose . Now how do you feel about being spanked again ? ' '' Scuse me , ' said the Elephant 's Child , ` but I should not like it at all . ' ` How would you like to spank somebody ? ' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake . ' I should like it very much indeed , ' said the Elephant 's Child .
` Well , ' said the XXXXX , ` you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with . '
Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake Child Limpopo fly fore-legs grey-green head mud mud-cap schloop