view Kindle eBook | view Audible audiobook. And the white-haired man and the three others stood still and laughed at the elephant with happy faces; for they knew in their hearts they were not guilty and they thought the elephant … Babar the Elephant is a fictional elephant character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff. "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! "I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.". ‘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. He asked, "What does the crocodile have for dinner?" But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint. Padraic Colum was a prolific author and playwright who wrote several collections of stories for... Fairytalez.com is the world's largest collection of fairy tales, fables and folktales. ‘What are you doing that for?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. The Elephant's Child, Told by Jack Nicholson with Music by Bobby McFerrin. Morgan Freeman reads this story, accompanied by music by Taj Mahal. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet, perhaps best known for The Jungle Book, which also starred anthropomorphic animals as its cast. Return to the Rudyard Kipling Home Page, or . 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 ! 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. ‘You couldn’t have done that with a mear-smear nose. The Elephant's Child from the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling tells the story of how the elephant got its trunk. And still he was full of ‘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.’. 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 the Kolokolo Bird. "I don't think you people's know anything about spanking; but I do, and I'll show you.". "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child most politely, "but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts? Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels. Then everybody said, "Hush!" ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’. "You couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! The Elephant’s Child (Level6 Book 11) and millions of other books are available for instant access. But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye—like this! The story of the army of elephants in Surah Fil is one of those beneficial stories. She came across a monkey and asked, “Will you be my friend, monkey?” “You are too big and cannot swing on trees as I do. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature. "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. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink. "I have seen a few business coaches over the years and can honestly say that Elephants Child are different, so much in fact that calling them a business coach is an injustice. 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. 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. "Why do you ask such things? ", "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child, "but I should not like it at all.". In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. You are hurtig be! The following is taken from his collection called 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 forelegs, and stuffed it into his mouth. ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true. This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake always talked. This touching story captures all the drama of a perilous flight to freedom, told through the experience of a young girl. 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. "That is odd," said the Elephant's Child, "because my father and 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.". "Come hither, Little One," said the Crocodile, "for I am the Crocodile," and he wept crocodile tears to show it was quite true. Will you please tell me what you have for dinner?’, ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘and I’ll whisper.’. ‘Some people do not know what is good for them.’. "O Bananas!" ‘’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. ", "I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," said 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. This is an adaptation of a famous Rudyard Kipling story, which explains how the elephant got its trunk. ", Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake scuffled down from the bank and said, "My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster" (and by this he meant the Crocodile) "will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson.". They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, "Come here and be spanked for your 'satiable curtiosity. Book features: * 300+ animations * 20 puzzles * professional voice-overs * awesome graphics a… ‘Then you will have to wait a long time, said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. 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. The two became friends. ‘Vantage number two!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe. ", "Pooh," said the Elephant's Child. The Elephant's Child (poem), a Poem by Rudyard Kipling. in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time. But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye--like this! "What will you ask me next? 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. Surah Fil means Chapter of the Elephant. They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence. And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop. That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! 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. ‘It does,’ said the Elephant’s Child. 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. 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 following is taken from his collection called Just So Stories, and tells the mythical tale of how elephants … Rosa caramelo, Adela Turín and Nella Bosnia. said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 10 tracks (42:16). The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock. 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, "Good-bye. The Forest Bride: The Story of a Little Mouse Who Was a Princess, Little Saddleslut (Greek version of Cinderella), Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood, Grimms' Version), The Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds. 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!’. 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.’. The elephant’s child lived with Father, Mother and Baby Elephant. Then the Elephant's 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 minute, had been no bigger than a boot, though much more useful. "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child most politely, "but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?". There they found the King of the Elephants. Then that bad Elephant's Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. The king had also ordered that special nutritious food be served to the elephant everyday, to keep him healthy. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do. ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile. 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. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities. Elephant and Friends Story. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do. When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and used it as a fly-whisk; and he made himself a new, cool slushy-squshy mud-cap whenever the sun was hot. The Elephant's Child is a fable about how the elephant got its long trunk. The Elephant's Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. He wanted to know all about the world, and was always asking the other animals difficult questions. 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 sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. "'Vantage number three!" 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." ‘Vantage number three!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. He brought a … For, O Best Beloved, you will understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk, same as all Elephant's have today. 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. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink. 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