In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk.Narrator
He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so.The Elephant's Child
The Cao-and-Dao bird went into a corner and cried, because the P&Q's accent jarred on her nerves.Narrator
The 'satiable Elephant's Child drew back, waiting for the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake to get up and feed again.Narrator
After weeks and months and years, the 'satiable Elephant's Child had a shiny new trunk - just like his father's.Narrator
He went especially out of his way to find a broad Hippopotamus to spank.The Elephant's Child
He curled up his trunk and said 'How do you do?' The Kolokolo Bird said with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River.'Narrator
The Elephant's Child packed up his few belongings and went away across Africa, walking thirty miles a day.Narrator
Then the Elephant's Child grew two thick pillars for his brand-new trunk, and power filled him from head to tail.Narrator
The Elephant's Child's nose was as large as a boot, which he could wave about on every side; but the rest of him was skin from which the hair had been scraped away.Narrator