The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-23

on what ne was q ACs, u 'OSN'
at the very edge OF the great grey
green, greasy Limpopo River. all SET
about with fever-trees.
But it was really the Crocodile q
Best Beloved, and the Crocodile wink
ed one eye-like this,
''Scuse me-" said the Elephant
Child most politely, but nave you
seen such thing as Crocodile IN
these promiscuous parts?
Then the crocodile winked the other
eye and lifted half his tail out of the
mud; and the Elephants Child stepped
back most politely, because he did not
wish to be spanked again.
Come hither, Little One" said the
Crocodile. why do you ask such
things?"
:" 'Scuse me-" said the Elephants
Child, most politely, 'tbut my father
has spanked me, my mother has spank
ed me, not to mention my tall aunt the
Ostrich, and my tall uncle, the Giraffe,
who can kick so very hard, as well as
my broad Aunt, the Hippopotamus,
and my hairy uncle, the Balloon, and
Snake with the scalesome. failsome
tail, just up the bank, who spanks
harder than any Of them; and SO. if
it's quite the same to you, don't want
to be spanked any more
Come hither, Little One" said the
Crocodile, for I am the Crocodile"
for 1 am the Crocodile" and he wept
crocodiie-tears to show it was quite
true.
Then the Elephants Child grew all
breathless, and painted, and kneeled
down on the bank and said: ''You are
the very person 1 have been looking
for all these long days. Will you please
tell me what you have for dinner?"
Come hither, Little One said the
Crocodile, and I'll whisper"
Then the Elephants Child put his
head down close to the Crocodile's
musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile
caught him by his little nose, which up
to that very week, day, hour and min
ute had been no bigger than a boot,
though much more useful.
Il think said the Crocodile-and he
said it between his teeth, like this-"I
think today I will begin with the Ele-
plants Child
AT this, o Best Beloved, the Ele-
plants Child was much annoyed, and
he said. speaking through his nose, like
this: Led go! You are hurtig be-"
Then the Observation-Disclosures Rock
Snake seuff1ed down from the bank
and said: My young friend, if you do
not now, Immediately and instantly,
pull as hard as ever you can, 1t is my
opinion that your acquaintance in the
large-pattern leather ulster" (and by
this he meant the Crocodile) will jerk
you into yonder 1iInpid stream before
you can say Jack Robinson Then
the Elephants Child sat back on his
little launches, and pulled, and pulled,
and pulled and his nose began to
stretch. And the Crocodile houndered
into the water, making it all creamy
with great sweeps of his tail, and he
pulled, and pulled. and pulled.
And the Elephants Child's nose kept
on stretching; and the Elephants Child
spread all his little four legs and pull
ed, and pulled, and pulled, and mis- 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 Elephants Childs nose
grew longer and longer-and it hurt
him hijjus!
Then the Elephants Child felt his
legs slipping, and he said through
his nose. which was now nearly five
feet long. This is too much for met
Then the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Snake came down from the bank, ana
knotted himself in double-clove hitch
round the Elephants Child's legs, and
said. Rash and inexperienced traveller,
we will now seriously devote ourselves
to little high tension, because If we
do not, it is my impression that youder
self-propelling nan-of-war with his
appropriated upper deck (and by this,
O Best Beloved, he meant the Croco-I
dile), will permanently vitiate your
feature career
This is the way all Bi-Colored-
Python-Roek-Snakes always talk
So he pulled, and the Elephants
Child pulled, and the Crocodile pulled;
but the Elephants Child and the BIZ
Colored- Python-Rock-Snake pulled the
hardest; and at last the Crocodile let
go of the Elephants Chid's nose with
a plop that you could hear all up and
down the Limpopo.
Then the Elephants Child sat down
most hard and sudden; but first he was
careful to say Thank you,'' to the BIZ
Colored-Python-R ock-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.
What are you doing that for?" said
the d-Python-Rock- Snake.
'Scuses me- said the Elephants
Child, but my nose is badly out of
shape, and I am waiting for it to
shrink"
Then you'll have to wait long
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