Never has there been a more satisfying rendering of this "Just So" story, which explains what the world was like "in the beginning of years when the world was new and all...". It’s in that old deserted village you passes through. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?’. 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. "'Vantage number three!" ‘Some people do not know what is good for them.’. ‘What are you doing that for?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. Bowing before him, one mouse spoke for the others and said, “O King, not far from here is our mice community. said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly from the rock, and spanked the Elephant's Child with his scalesome, flailsome tail. 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. ", 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.". "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child most politely, "but do you happen to have seen a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?". Then the Elephant’s Child sat back on his little haunches, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his nose began to stretch. 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. Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly from the rock, and spanked the Elephant’s Child with his scalesome, flailsome tail. 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. ‘’Vantage number one!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 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 ! And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! Read the next short story; The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P. There they found the King of the Elephants. 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.’. Elephant stories for children in different languages. ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink. 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, ‘Goodbye. ", "I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," said the Elephant's Child. in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time. It was also useful for picking up litter and for spanking his relatives when he got home. Don't you think the sun is very hot here?". The elephant touched with his trunk each of the five accused men, from his head to his feet. The following is taken from his collection called And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe. At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder, and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that fly dead with the end of it. The elephant saw the dog eating the leftover food. It was all his ‘satiable curtiosity. "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. Fairytalez.com » Rudyard Kipling » The Elephant's Child. The king had also ordered that special nutritious food be served to the elephant everyday, to keep him healthy. But it was really the Crocodile, O Best Beloved, and the Crocodile winked one eye—like this! "What will you ask me next? ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but my nose is badly out of shape, and I am waiting for it to shrink. ‘How would you like to spank somebody?’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. 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 just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy paw. So the Elephant's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. "Some people do not know what is good for them.". Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up. ‘You couldn’t have done that with a mear-smear nose. When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than several brass bands. 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. "It does," 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. It's the story of how the elephant got his nose. Then that bad Elephant's Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was full of 'satiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn. ", "Come hither, Little One," said the Crocodile, "and I'll whisper.". 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. This short story was written by Mahesh in the Summer of 2005, when he was 13. 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. I absolutely adore Rudyard Kipling, and the Elephant's Child is one of my all time favorite childrens books. ", "Thank you," said the Elephant's child, "I'll remember that; and now I think I'll go home to all my dear families and try.". just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy paw. The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock. ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile. Book features: * 300+ animations * 20 puzzles * professional voice-overs * awesome graphics a… It covers the history of an incident that took place in the year that Prophet Muhammad (S) was born. Zas, l’elefant, Édouard Manceau. They usually told him to … Then the Crocodile winked the other eye, and lifted half his tail out of the mud; and the Elephant’s Child stepped back most politely, because he did not wish to be spanked again. "I don't think you people's know anything about spanking; but I do, and I'll show you.". He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. Try and eat a little now.". In the wake of the return of Elephant’s Child with a long trunk just right for meting out corporal punishment of his own, all of his relatives rush off to “borrow” new noses from Crocodile, and their return parade sporting stretched-out schnozzes (even the zebra and wildebeest) caps the pictures in droll style. They were very glad to see him, and immediately said, "Come here and be spanked for your 'satiable curtiosity. "I should like it very much indeed," said the Elephant's Child. Sign in. So he said good-bye very politely to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, and helped to coil him up on the rock again, and went on, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up, till he trod on what he thought was a log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees. Will you please tell me what you have for dinner?’, ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘and I’ll whisper.’. The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled around a rock. 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. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. 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. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to … ", 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.". For, O Best Beloved, you will see and understand that the Crocodile had pulled it out into a really truly trunk same as all Elephants have to-day. Get started by clicking the "Add" button. One dark evening he came back to all his dear families, and he coiled up his trunk and said, "How do you do?" ‘Pooh,’ said the Elephant’s Child. Already a member? 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. "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! "Why do you ask such things? "You couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. TRY IT FREE, THEN UNLOCK THE FULL ADVENTURE FROM WITHIN THE GAME! A lone elephant wandered the forest looking for friends. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his ‘satiable curtiosities. (68) IMDb 8.0 26min ALL. The elephant’s child lived with Father, Mother and Baby Elephant. Discover more than 3,800 classic tales plus new stories by fairy tale fans. ‘Why do you ask such things?’, ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely, ‘but my father has spanked me, my mother has spanked me, not to mention my tall aunt, the Ostrich, and my tall uncle, the Giraffe, who can kick ever so hard, as well as my broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and my hairy uncle, the Baboon, and including the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, with the scalesome, flailsome tail, just up the bank, who spanks harder than any of them; and so, if it’s quite all the same to you, I don’t want to be spanked any more.’. "You couldn't have done that with a mere-smear nose. The Elephant's Child, Told by Jack Nicholson with Music by Bobby McFerrin. That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. He wanted to know what the crocodile had for dinner so he left, where he meets creatures along the way. ", The 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.". ‘I don’t think you peoples know anything about spanking; but I do, and I’ll show you.’ Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels. ‘I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.’. 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. For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men: But different folk have different views: I know a person small— She keeps ten million serving-men, Who get no rest at all! Or read more short stories for kids in our Children's Library. ‘Vantage number three!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. Then everybody said, "Hush!" 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. In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. The elephant was resting under a shady tree. After reading the story, students answer three reading comprehension questions and complete a word search puzzle designed to reinforce their learning. A group of brave mice followed those elephant footprints all the way to the lake. 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 … 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.’ And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop. 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. "'Scuse me," said the Elephant's Child most politely, "but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts? ‘Well,’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, ‘you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with.’, ‘Thank you,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘I’ll remember that; and now I think I’ll go home to all my dear families and try.’. ", "Have I seen a crocodile?" At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the Crocodile. And the Crocodile floundered into the water, making it all creamy with great sweeps of his tail, and he pulled, and pulled, and pulled. Return to the Rudyard Kipling Home Page, or . The Elephant’s Child sat there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. But there was one Elephant—a new Elephant—an Elephant’s Child—who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes— One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys! And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! said they, "Where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose? Rosa caramelo, Adela Turín and Nella Bosnia. 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. So he said good-bye very politely to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, and helped to coil him up on the rock again, and went on, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up, till he trod on what he thought was a log of wood at the very edge of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees. ‘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. "Come hither, Little One," said the Crocodile, "for I am the Crocodile," and he wept crocodile tears to show it was quite true. 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. Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad. Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this 'satiable Elephant's Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. I Keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who. ‘Vantage number two!’ said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees as he used to do. Or Create a free Fairytalez account in less than a minute. I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west; But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest. . When he felt lonely walking through Africa he sang to himself down his trunk, and the noise was louder than several brass bands. said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. Like a steel trap from which nothing can escape. Create a library and add your favorite stories. ‘Some people do not know what is good for them.’ The Elephant’s Child sat there for three days https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child While going to river to take a bath regularly he passed a tailor’s shop. Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. ‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true. 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. "Well," said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, "you will find that new nose of yours very useful to spank people with. 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. said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake. The following is taken from his collection called Just So Stories, and tells the mythical tale of how elephants … So Light, So Heavy, Susanne Strasser. Tailor always gave him something to eat. And the Elephant's Child's nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant's child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his 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 Elephant's Child's nose grew longer and longer--and it hurt him hijjus!! I let them rest from nine till five. "What are you doing that for?" 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. This is an adaptation of a famous Rudyard Kipling story, which explains how the elephant got its trunk. He wanted to know all about the world, and was always asking the other animals difficult questions. The Elephant’s Child (Level6 Book 11) and millions of other books are available for instant access. ‘O Bananas!’ said they, ‘where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?’, ‘I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River,’ said the Elephant’s Child. Babar the Elephant, Jean de Brunhoff; Elefante, un guisante, Rafael Ordóñez and Marc Taeger. Related posts: Short story for kids on A Tailor and the Elephant 195 Words Essay for kids on the elephant 192 Words […] 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. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint. Then the Elephants' 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. 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. And the Elephant’s Child’s nose kept on stretching; and the Elephant’s Child spread all his little four legs and pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and his 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 Elephant’s Child’s nose grew longer and longer—and it hurt him hijjus! Will you please tell me what you have for dinner? Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up. This worksheet features Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," which conjures up a whimsical explanation for elephants' long trunks. So the Elephant's Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! Elephant Stories, José Martí. 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 sat down most hard and sudden; but first he was careful to say ‘Thank you’ to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-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. Then the Elephant's Child felt his legs slipping, and he said through his nose, which was now nearly five feet long, "This is to butch for be! One afternoon, a stray dog entered the royal stable. Try and eat a little now.’. And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop. The story starts of with a curios elephant child who was full of curiosity and always got in trouble because of always asking questions. Now how do you feel about being spanked again?’, ‘’Scuse me,’ said the Elephant’s Child, ‘but I should not like it at all.’. 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. 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. He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. "'Vantage number two!" Mi amigo el elefante, Alejandro Viacava. 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. This is the way Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk. Join now to publish your own tales, get feedback from readers, and enter writing competitions. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! Created for third graders, this worksheet is a fun way to introduce kids to origin … 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 fore-legs, and stuffed it into his own mouth. "'Vantage number one!" One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. 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." They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence. When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and used it as fly-whisk; and he made himself a new, cool, slushy-squshy mud-cap whenever the sun was hot. Series for World TV 1980's animated and directed by Sheila Graber on her own,in one year. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature. 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. By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thornbush, 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! 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. 10 tracks (42:16). Set on he banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River in … "How would you like to spank somebody?" Then the Elephant's Child sat down most hard and sudden; but first he was careful to say "Thank you" to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-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. Don’t you think the sun is very hot here?’. 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!’. At the end of the third day a fly came and stung him on the shoulder, and before he knew what he was doing he lifted up his trunk and hit that fly dead with the end of it. Weighing the Elephant ~ English Stories for Kids A long time ago, people who lived in China knew that a strange, amazing beast called an elephant lived in a faraway land, but no one had ever seen one. ", At this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant's Child was much annoyed, and he said, speaking through his nose, like this, "Led go! 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