Sunday, August 10, 2014

By the banks of the great grey-green greasy Limpopo river, all set about with fever trees


Toyota.......Barr


Perhaps the Crocodile has disregarded the fact that the Bi-Coloured Python Rock Snake lies in wait nearby, poised to help.

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The Elephant's Child was insatiably curious about what the Crocodile eats for dinner, and now seems to have gotten into a bit of trouble. The Crocodile intends to eat the Elephant's Child.

But the story ends well when the Crocodile inadvertently does him a favor instead.

The help from 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.' 
     That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. 
     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.


Rudyard Kipling's The Elephant's Child, narrated by Jack Nicholson with music by Bobby McFerrin