"The Elephant's Child". Then the Elephant’s Child sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch. Rabbit Ears Productions, Rabbit Ears, The Elephant's Child, elephants, elephant, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, Jack Nicholson, 1986 Language English. Just So Stories (Lit2Go Edition). And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled. For I am busy then, All Rights Reserved. But there was one Elephant—a new Elephant—an Elephant’s Child—who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. ‘Some people do not know what is good for them.’. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. So the Elephant’s Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. On the African savannah a boy named Bat lived in a small village with his Grandma. ‘But it’s very useful,’ and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornet’s nest. Just So Stories. He asked questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. These cookies do not store any personal information. This document was downloaded from Lit2Go, a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format published by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true. ‘I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.’. In the wake of the return of Elephant’s Child with a long trunk just right for meting out corporal punishment of his own, all of his relatives rush off to “borrow” new noses from Crocodile, and their return parade sporting stretched-out schnozzes (even the zebra and wildebeest) caps the pictures in … SURVEY . that elephants should be not be curious. Don’t you think the sun is very hot here?’. What did all the animals learn in the "Elephant's Child"? As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, Then the Elephant’s Child sat down most hard and sudden; but first he was careful to say ‘Thank you’ to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake; and next he was kind to his poor pulled nose, and wrapped it all up in cool banana leaves, and hung it in the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo to cool. A favorite from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (1902). For they are hungry men: Elephants Child @ElephChild "The growth and retention of existing clients, through proactive management, is rich in opportunity, low in risk and in cost," says our CEO in this article about the importance of retaining existing clients, as your business grows. For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day. ‘Vantage number two!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock. ‘What will you ask me next?’, ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner?’. 10 tracks (42:19). The Elephant's Child, Told by Jack Nicholson with Music by Bobby McFerrin (68) IMDb 8.0 26min ALL Rudyard Kipling's tale of how the elephant got its trunk has always delighted with its … Info. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do. Shopping. But sometimes moms will bang their own and their children's heads against stuff that everyone hates for years before letting go of something that just isn't working. He asked, ‘What does the Crocodile have for dinner?’ Then everybody said, ‘Hush!’ in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time. 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. But after they have worked for me, ‘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 don’t want to be spanked any more.’. Their names are What and Where and When The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock. At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the Crocodile. minute, this ’satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. 2. you should always get annoyed with baby elephants. ‘’Vantage number one!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. Rudyard Kipling, ""The Elephant's Child"," Just So Stories, Lit2Go Edition, (0), accessed May 15, 2021, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/. Elephant's Child 27min | Animation , Comedy , Family | TV Movie 10 December 1987 That's the story of the Elephant's Child, who at the time has only a small nose and gets spanked by all his dear family because of his insatiable curiosity. ‘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! ‘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. Before he thought what he was doing the Elephant’s Child put out his trunk and plucked a large bundle of grass, dusted it clean against his fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth. For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day. https://defenderspublishing.com/t2xc3/elephant's-child,-the First published in the Ladies’ Home Journal, April 1900, illustrated by Frank Verbeck. Then the Elephant’s Child felt his legs slipping, and he said through his nose, which was now nearly five feet long, ‘This is too butch for be!’. The Elephant's Child from the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling tells the story of how the elephant got its trunk. Then that bad Elephant’s Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. The Elephant's Child. 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. By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, ‘My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my ‘satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!’, Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.’. Now how do you feel about being spanked again?’, ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but I should not like it at all.’. ‘’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 This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Will you please tell me what you have for dinner?’, ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘and I’ll whisper.’. 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. And the Elephant’s Child’s nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant’s Child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose kept on stretching; and the Crocodile threshed his tail like an oar, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and at each pull the Elephant’s Child’s nose grew longer and longer—and it hurt him hijjus! ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile. So he pulled, and the Elephant’s Child pulled, and the Crocodile pulled; but the Elephant’s Child and the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake pulled hardest; and at last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant’s Child’s nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo. ‘Then you will have to wait a long time, said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake came down from the bank, and knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch round the Elephant’s Child’s hind legs, and said, ‘Rash and inexperienced traveller, we will now seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling man-of-war with the armour-plated upper deck’ (and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the Crocodile), ‘will permanently vitiate your future career. But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye—like this! ‘’Vantage number two!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. “The Elephant’s Child” is the first “Just so” story introduced in the Rabbit Ears Storybook Classics series and is easily one of Rabbit Ears’ finest videos since it won a Grammy Award in the late 80s. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. I give them all a rest. So the Elephant’s Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. Now how do you feel about being spanked again?’, ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but I should not like it at all.’. Bobby McFerrin. ‘It does,’ said the Elephant’s Child. ‘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. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. ‘How would you like to spank somebody?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. feat: Storybook Classics. ‘Then you will have to wait a long time, said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. It is challenging text full of humor that students will enjoy. It was all his ‘satiable curtiosity. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink. It was all his ’satiable curtiosity. I Keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who. Amazon. The insatiably curious elephant's child peppers every animal he meets with questions about the mysterious crocodile who lives on the banks of the Lompopo River. ‘O Bananas!’ said they, ‘where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?’, ‘I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,’ said the Elephant’s Child. The Elephant’s Child wants to find out about everything. ‘’Vantage number one!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. The elephant’s child set out on the long journey to the river. He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus (she was no relation of his), and he spanked her very hard, to make sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake had spoken the truth about his new trunk. Before he thought what he was doing the Elephant’s Child put out his trunk and plucked a large bundle of grass, dusted it clean against his fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth. He pulled out his tall Ostrich aunt’s tail-feathers; and he caught his tall uncle, the Giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush; and he shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and blew bubbles into her ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals; but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird. ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile. ‘You couldn’t have done that with a mere-smear nose. For more information, including classroom activities, readability data, and original sources, please visit https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/. Questioning th That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye. Then that bad Elephant’s Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up his trunk and said, ‘How do you do?’ They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, ‘Come here and be spanked for your ‘satiable curtiosity.’. (My child simply does not learn the way the Classical model says children love to learn, for example. And How and Why and Who. I know a person small— He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus (she was no relation of his), and he spanked her very hard, to make sure that the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake had spoken the truth about his new trunk. This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. Set on he banks of the great grey-green, … In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see, besides all those that you won’t, have trunks precisely like the trunk of the ‘satiable Elephant’s Child. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’, ‘Have I seen a Crocodile?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn. The Elephant's Child (poem), a Poem by Rudyard Kipling. The rest of the time he picked up the melon rinds that he had dropped on his way to the Limpopo—for he was a Tidy Pachyderm. Copy link. But it never grew any shorter, and besides, it made him squint. ‘You couldn’t have done that with a mear-smear nose. Try and eat a little now.’. 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. ‘What will you ask me next?’, ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner?’. answer choices . ‘You couldn’t have done that with a mear-smear nose. 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. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. The Elephant's Child book. ‘It does,’ said the Elephant’s Child. ‘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 don’t want to be spanked any more.’. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. ‘Some people do not know what is good for them.’ The Elephant’s Child … Then the Elephant’s Child sat down most hard and sudden; but first he was careful to say ‘Thank you’ to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake; and next he was kind to his poor pulled nose, and wrapped it all up in cool banana leaves, and hung it in the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo to cool. Bobby McFerrin. ‘Then you will have to wait a long time, said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. © 2021 Fairytalez.com, a VareGuide / Weider Media production. The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye—like this! ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink. “We know mutations are correlated with variation, but we don’t know the nuts and bolts,” says Naylor, the director of the University of Florida Program for Shark Research. This website uses cookies so we can provide you with the best user experience. feat: Storybook Classics. ‘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. That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye. I let them rest from nine till five. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’. At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder, and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that fly dead with the end of it. At last the elephant’s child came to the green, green river where Crocodile lived. Fairytalez.com » Rudyard Kipling » The Elephant's Child. We hope you enjoy The Elephant's Child.Kipling's anthropomorphic tales are … Try and eat a little now.’. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Rudyard Kipling's story of how the elephant got its trunk has always delighted children with its … Listen free to Bobby McFerrin & Jack Nicholson – The Elephant's Child (The Elephant's Child, Kolo, Kolo, Kolo and more). ‘Vantage number three!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! Retrieved May 15, 2021, from https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/. 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. Because of his "satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-04-06 20:59:22 Boxid IA116004 Boxid_2 BWB220141003 Camera Canon EOS … https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/, Florida Center for Instructional Technology. Up Next. Tap to unmute. The Elephant's Child (Audiobook) Watch later. 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. Share. ‘I should like it very much indeed,’ said the Elephant’s Child. And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled. Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama’s Country, and from Khama’s Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said. In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than several brass bands. 0. 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. And the Elephant’s Child’s nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant’s Child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose kept on stretching; and the Crocodile threshed his tail like an oar, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and at each pull the Elephant’s Child’s nose grew longer and longer—and it hurt him hijjus! I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.’ And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop. The rest of the time he picked up the melon rinds that he had dropped on his way to the Limpopo—for he was a Tidy Pachyderm. The Forest Bride: The Story of a Little Mouse Who Was a Princess, Little Saddleslut (Greek version of Cinderella), The Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds, Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood, Grimms' Version). And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! And seven million Whys! 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. Already a member? He asked questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, But there was one Elephant—a new Elephant—an Elephant’s Child—who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. The Elephant’s Child Rudyard Kipling ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink. He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! He asked, ‘What does the Crocodile have for dinner?’ Then everybody said, ‘Hush!’ in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time. ‘It looks very ugly,’ said his hairy uncle, the Baboon. I Keep six honest serving-men: The tale of how the elephant got its trunk is one of the most beloved of the Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling wrote for children. The Elephant’s Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. I send them over land and sea, Don’t you think the sun is very hot here?’. ‘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.’. Born August 29, 1872, Edith Howes was a New Zealand teacher and eventually became a... Fairytalez.com is the world's largest collection of fairy tales, fables and folktales. The elephant's child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. He pulled out his tall Ostrich aunt’s tail-feathers; and he caught his tall uncle, the Giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush; and he shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and blew bubbles into her ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals; but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird. From the second she opens her eyes— ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’, ‘Have I seen a Crocodile?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn. But different folk have different views: One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up his trunk and said, ‘How do you do?’ They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, ‘Come here and be spanked for your ‘satiable curtiosity.’. By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, ‘My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my ‘satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!’, Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.’. One million Hows, two million Wheres, He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. Kolo, Kolo, Kolo. "The Elephant's Child" by Rudyard Kipling is the classic short story about how the elephant got his long nose. ‘But it’s very useful,’ and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornet’s nest. “‘Scuse me,” said the Elephant’s Child most … Children the whole world 'round have delighted to the telling and re-telling of Rudyard Kipling's beloved story of how the elephant got his trunk. ‘I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.’. He asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why her eyes were red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, spanked him with her broad, broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy paw. The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’. 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