` 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 Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake , ` you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with . ' ` Thank you , ' said the Elephant 's Child , ` I 'll remember that ; and now I think I 'll go home to all my dear families and try . ' So the Elephant 's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk . When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree , instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do . When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground , instead of going on his knees as he used to do . When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and used it as fly-whisk ; and he made himself a new , cool , slushy-squshy mud-cap whenever the sun was hot . When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk , and the noise was louder than several brass bands .
He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus -LRB- she was no relation of his -RRB- , and he spanked her very hard , to make sure that the XXXXX had spoken the truth about his new trunk .
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