There were no wrinkles in it anywhere . He looked exactly like a Noah 's Ark Rhinoceros , but of course much bigger . All the same , he had no manners then , and he has no manners now , and he never will have any manners . He said , ` How ! ' and the Parsee left that cake and climbed to the top of a palm tree with nothing on but his hat , from which the rays of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental splendour . And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose , and the cake rolled on the sand , and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose , and he ate it , and he went away , waving his tail , to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan , Socotra , and Promontories of the Larger Equinox . Then the Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put the stove on its legs and recited the following Sloka , which , as you have not heard , I will now proceed to relate : -- Them that takes cakes Which the Parsee-man bakes Makes dreadful mistakes . And there was a great deal more in that than you would think . Because , five weeks later , there was a heat wave in the Red Sea , and everybody took off all the clothes they had . The Parsee took off his hat ; but the Rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe . In those days it buttoned underneath with three buttons and looked like a waterproof . He said nothing whatever about the Parsee 's cake , because he had eaten it all ; and he never had any manners , then , since , or henceforward . He waddled straight into the water and blew bubbles through his nose , leaving his skin on the beach . Presently the Parsee came by and found the skin , and he smiled one smile that ran all round his face two times . Then he danced three times round the skin and rubbed his hands . Then he went to his camp and filled his hat with cake-crumbs , for the Parsee never ate anything but cake , and never swept out his camp . He took that skin , and he shook that skin , and he scrubbed that skin , and he rubbed that skin just as full of old , dry , stale , tickly cake-crumbs and some burned currants as ever it could possibly hold . Then he climbed to the top of his palm-tree and waited for the Rhinoceros to come out of the water and put it on . And the Rhinoceros did . He buttoned it up with the three buttons , and it tickled like cake crumbs in bed .
Then he wanted to scratch , but that made it worse ; and then he lay down on the sands and rolled and rolled and rolled , and every time he rolled the cake XXXXX tickled him worse and worse and worse .
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