![]() The Elephant’s Child resisted, helped by the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, but his nose was pulled out into a long trunk before the Crocodile let go. When he came close, the Crocodile caught him by his nose and tried to pull him into the water. Then he came to the river and found the Crocodile, who told him to come and hear the whispered answer. On the way there he met and asked the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, who also spanked him. Then he asked Kolokolo Bird, who told him to go the Limpopo River and find out. They all spanked him and told him to hush. “What does the Crocodile have for dinner?” He asked so many questions that all his relations spanked him. One little elephant was insatiably inquisitive. Originally the elephant had a short nose the size of a boot, flexible but useless for grasping things. “I keep six honest serving-men.” The drawing of the Elephant’s Child’s tug of war with the crocodile (above) was reproduced on the cover. ![]() Collected in Just So Stories (1902), illustrated by the author, and followed by the poem First published in the Ladies’ Home Journal, April 1900, illustrated by Frank Verbeck. ![]()
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