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 rind 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 . But it was really the Crocodile , O Best Beloved , and the Crocodile winked one eye -- like this ! '' Scuse me , ' said the Elephant 's Child most politely , ` but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts ? ' Then the Crocodile winked the other eye , and lifted half his tail out of the mud ; and the Elephant 's Child stepped back most politely , because he did not wish to be spanked again . ` 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 XXXXX 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 . '
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