-LRB- Say that quickly aloud , and you will see how very shadowy the forest must have been . -RRB- ` What is this , ' said the Leopard , ` that is so ` sclusively dark , and yet so full of little pieces of light ? ' ' I do n't know , said the Ethiopian , ` but it ought to be the aboriginal Flora . I can smell Giraffe , and I can hear Giraffe , but I ca n't see Giraffe . ' ` That 's curious , ' said the Leopard . ' I suppose it is because we have just come in out of the sunshine . I can smell Zebra , and I can hear Zebra , but I ca n't see Zebra . ' ` Wait a bit , said the Ethiopian . ` It 's a long time since we 've hunted 'em . Perhaps we 've forgotten what they were like . ' ` Fiddle ! ' said the Leopard . ' I remember them perfectly on the High Veldt , especially their marrow-bones . Giraffe is about seventeen feet high , of a ` sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel ; and Zebra is about four and a half feet high , of a ` sclusively grey-fawn colour from head to heel . ' ` Umm , said the Ethiopian , looking into the speckly-spickly shadows of the aboriginal Flora-forest . ` Then they ought to show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse . ' But they did n't . The Leopard and the Ethiopian hunted all day ; and though they could smell them and hear them , they never saw one of them . ` For goodness ' sake , ' said the Leopard at tea-time , ` let us wait till it gets dark . This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal . '
So they waited till dark , and then the Leopard heard something breathing sniffily in the starlight that fell all stripy through the branches , and he jumped at the noise , and it smelt like XXXXX , and it felt like Zebra , and when he knocked it down it kicked like Zebra , but he could n't see it .
Ethiopian Flora Flora-forest Giraffe Leopard Zebra colour day golden-yellow marrow-bones