` This is the way it 's done . One -- two -- three ! And where 's your breakfast ? ' Leopard stared , and Ethiopian stared , but all they could see were stripy shadows and blotched shadows in the forest , but never a sign of Zebra and Giraffe . They had just walked off and hidden themselves in the shadowy forest . ` Hi ! Hi ! ' said the Ethiopian . ` That 's a trick worth learning . Take a lesson by it , Leopard . You show up in this dark place like a bar of soap in a coal-scuttle . ' ` Ho ! Ho ! ' said the Leopard . ` Would it surprise you very much to know that you show up in this dark place like a mustard-plaster on a sack of coals ? ' ` Well , calling names wo n't catch dinner , said the Ethiopian . ` The long and the little of it is that we do n't match our backgrounds . I 'm going to take Baviaan 's advice . He told me I ought to change ; and as I 've nothing to change except my skin I 'm going to change that . ' ` What to ? '
said the XXXXX , tremendously excited .
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