Chapter 4 elephant cub

elephant cub Oh dear, in ancient times, an elephant didn't have a long trunk, he only had a black protruding nose as big as a boot, it could twist around, but it couldn't pick up things.But there is an elephant—a baby elephant—a baby elephant, who has a lot of whimsy, which means he asks a lot of questions.He lives in Africa and he has an insatiable curiosity about all things African.He asked the tall aunt, the ostrich, why her tail hair was so long, and the ostrich slapped him with its hard claws.He asked the tall uncle, the giraffe, how his skin got spots, and the tall uncle, the giraffe kicked him with its thick hooves.But he still has many puzzled curiosity!He asked the big aunt, Hippo, why her eyes were red, and her big aunt, Hippo, kicked him with wide hooves.He asked his hairy uncle, the baboon, why the melon tasted nothing like this, and his hairy uncle, the baboon, patted him with its furry paws.But he still has many puzzled curiosity!

He asked about everything he saw, heard, touched and felt, and his uncles and aunts beat him up.But he still has many puzzled curiosity! One fine morning in the middle of the precession, the curious elephant cub asked a new question he had never asked before.He asked, "What do crocodiles eat?" and they all said loudly and fearfully, "Hush!" They beat him at once, and it lasted a long time. Not long after, after being beaten, he approached a colo-colo bird sitting in the middle of a bush, and said, "My parents beat me for my curiosity, and all my uncles and aunts Hit me, but I still want to know what alligators eat."

The Colo Colo bird cried mournfully, "Go to the big gray-green, oil-stained Limpopo, they are all scattered in the hot woods, to be found." The next day, the equinoxes were nothing special, as everything worked as before, and the curious elephant cub brought a hundred pound bananas (the tiny red ones), a hundred pound sugar cane (the tiny red ones) long purple one), seventeen melons (the crisp green kind), and bid his family farewell, saying, "Goodbye, I'm going to the big grey-green, oily Limpopo, they're all scattered in the hot woods , you can find out what the crocodiles eat." Even though he told them not to, they slapped him and wished him good luck.

So he left the house, a little excited but not at all surprised, and ate the melon, throwing the rind all over the place because he couldn't pick it up. He went from Graham to Kimberley, from Kimberley to Karma, and from Karma he went east through the North, eating melons, until at last he reached the gray-green, oil-stained Limpopo, all scattered in the hot woods Here, the same as the Colo Colo bird said. Beloved, by now you must know and understand that the weeks, days, hours, and minutes, are all insatiable.The elephant cub had never seen a crocodile, so he didn't know what it looked like. He was so curious.

The first thing he saw was a two-color boa constrictor coiled on a rock. "I'm sorry," said the cub politely, "but have you ever seen anything like a crocodile in this herd?" "Have you ever seen a crocodile?" The two-color boa constrictor said in a contemptuous tone, "What else do you want to ask?" "I'm sorry," said the elephant cub, "but kindly tell me what to eat." So the two-color boa constrictor quickly let go of the rock, and slapped the elephant cub with its flexible and bulky tail. "It's strange," said the elephant cub, "because my parents, uncles and aunts, not to mention my other aunts, hippos, other uncles, baboons, all slapped me because of my curiosity—I think it was Same thing."

He said a polite farewell to the two-coloured boa constrictor, helped it re-tangle the rock, and walked on, a little excited but not at all surprised, eating the melon, throwing the rinds everywhere because he couldn't pick it up.He was walking on what he thought was a great gray-green, oil-stained log of the Limpopo River, and they were all scattered in the hot woods. But darling, that's a real crocodile, he blinks one eye, and that's what it looks like! "Excuse me," said the cub politely, "have you ever come across a crocodile in this rough place?" The crocodile blinked the other eye, curled its tail most of the way out of the mud, and the cub politely backed away because he didn't want to be slapped again.

"Come forward, little one," said the crocodile, "why ask that?" "I'm sorry," the elephant cub said politely, "but my parents beat me, my tall aunt, the ostrich, my tall uncle, the giraffe, who has the heaviest hooves, and the big aunt, the hippo and The hairy uncle, the baboons, including the two-coloured boa constrictor slapped me with his nimble, bulky tail high above the bank, he hit me the hardest, and if you do the same, I don't want to be beaten." "Come forward, little one," said the crocodile, "I am the crocodile," and he wept crocodile tears and convinced him it was true.

Then the elephant cub became panting, sat by the river bank and said, "Are you the one I have been looking for for so long, please tell you what to eat? "Come forward, little one," said the Crocodile, "I want to whisper to you." The elephant cub lowered his head into the musky, tusk-like mouth of the crocodile, and the crocodile grabbed his tiny nose, just that week, day, hour, minute, not as big as a boot though useful. "I think," said the crocodile -- through his teeth, like this -- "I think I'll start with you today!" Hearing him say that, oh dear, the elephant cub got annoyed and snorted, like, "Go away! You nasty bastard!"

Then the two-coloured boa constrictor also whirred down from the bank and said, "Young man, now you have to pull it out quickly, I think the big leather jacket (this refers to the crocodile.) before I yank you into the clear stream far away." Two-color boa constrictors always talk like this. The elephant cub squatted back slightly, pulling and pulling, and his nose began to grow longer. The crocodile struggled to get into the water, curling up the oily water with its tail.He pulled and pulled. The trunk of the elephant cub continued to lengthen, he spread his limbs, pulled and pulled, his nose was lengthening.The crocodile swung its paddle-like tail, and he pulled and pulled, and each time the cub's trunk got longer and longer—it hurt him!

The cub felt his limbs slack, and he spoke through his nose, which was about five feet long. The two-coloured rock snake came down from the bank, coiled itself on the elephant's hind legs, and said, "Reckless and ignorant traveler, we will now seriously commit ourselves to a skirmish, because if we don't, we will The impression that the guy in the leather armor starting the war in the distance (oh dear, he meant the alligator.) will permanently damage your future career. That's what the bicolor boa constrictor always says. So he pulled, and the baby elephant pulled, and the crocodile pulled too, but the boa constrictor and the baby elephant pulled the hardest, and finally the crocodile let go of the baby elephant's nose, and you could hear a splash, and the Limpopo water rippled .

Then the cub sat back sharply, but first carefully said: "Thank you bicolor boa constrictor, and wrapped his poor elongated nose in a cool banana peel and put it in a gray-green, Cool off in the oily Lipopo River. "Why are you doing that?" said the two-color boa constrictor. "I'm sorry," said the cub, "my nose is badly deformed and I want it to be retracted. "It will take a long time," said the two-color boa constrictor. "Some people don't know what good it is." The elephant cub sat there and waited for three days until his nose retracted.But it never got any shorter, and he got squinted.Oh dear, you will understand that the crocodile has pulled it into a real elephant trunk, which looks just as it does today. Towards the end of the third day, a fly came and bit him on the shoulder, and before he knew what he was doing, he smacked the fly dead with the bottom of his raised trunk. "Advantage one!" said the two-color boa constrictor, "You don't need that oily elephant trunk, try to eat something now." Before he could say anything, the elephant cub stretched out his trunk, picked up a large bundle of grass, swung it clean on his front legs, and stuffed it into his mouth. "Advantage 2!" said the two-color boa constrictor, "You don't need that oily elephant trunk. You don't think the sun is too hot here." "Yes," said the cub, and before he could think of anything to do, he sucked a stream of mud from the grey-green, greasy banks of the Lipopo River, and slapped it on his head, cleverly forming a slippery muddy hat behind his ears . "Advantage three!" said the two-color boa constrictor, "You don't need that greasy elephant trunk, now think about the feeling of being beaten again." "I'm sorry," said the elephant cub, "but I don't like that at all." "Then how about beating someone else?" said the two-color boa constrictor. "I do," said the elephant cub. "Well," said the two-coloured boa constrictor, "you may find your new nose useful for punching." "Thanks," said the Cub, "I'll remember to do that, and I'll go home and try it now in my dear big family." So the elephant cubs traveled across Africa and rushed home, wagging their trunks.When he wanted to eat fruit, he plucked it from the tree instead of waiting for them to fall like he used to.When he wants to eat grass, he pulls it from the ground instead of kneeling down to eat it like before.When the flies bite, they break off the branches and use them as a duster to drive them away.When it was hot, he wrapped himself like a hat in the freshly cool mud.Walking alone in Africa he hummed from his elephant's trunk louder than several military bands playing together. In particular, he'd go find a big hippopotamus (she's not related to him) and give her a good beating to see if the bicolor boa constrictor's comments about his new elephant trunk were true.The rest of the time he picked up the melon husks he had dropped along the way and threw them into the Lipopo River—for he was a clean pachyderm. One dark night he came home to his dear ones, rolled up his trunk and said, "How are you?" We were glad to see him, and quickly said, "Come, for your insatiable curiosity, let us beat beat you." "Pfft," said the cub, "I don't think you all know how badly my nose hits, but I do, and I'll show you." on, and throw them to the ground. "Oh confused!" they said, "how did you learn that trick, and what's the matter with your nose?" "I got a new trunk from the crocodile on the grey-green, grease-drenched Lipopo," said the cub, "and I asked him what he had for dinner, and he left me this. " "It looks ugly," said Uncle Mao Baboon. "Yes," said the elephant cub, "but it's practical," and he curled up one of Uncle Hair's baboon's hairy feet and threw him into the hive. Then for a long time, the bad elephant cub beat all the relatives of the family until they were all mild and startled.He plucked out the tail feathers of his tall ostrich, grabbed the hind legs of his tall uncle giraffe, and dragged him through the bushes with thick thorns; he also roared at his big aunt hippo, and slept in the water after eating, He sprays bubbles; but he never lets other animals touch the Colo-Kolo. In the end things got more tense and his dear family all left one by one in a hurry open, to the grey-green, oil-rippling Lipopo, scattered among the hot woods, borrowing new noses from crocodiles.After they came back, they didn't hit anyone anymore, and from that day on, oh dear, all the elephants you saw and didn't see had exactly the same noses as the dissatisfied elephant cubs. i have six honest servants (they taught me what to know) What are their names, where, when How, why and who. I send them to land and sea, I sent them east and west; But after they worked for me, I give them a break. I let them rest from nine to five. Because I was busy then, There are also breakfast, lunch and tea time, Because they are all hungry. But different people have different opinions: I know a little guy-- She has a million servants, They never rest! She sent them abroad to dismiss her business, From the second she opened her eyes— One million how, two million where, And seven million whys!