Short story on elephants child
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The story
This is an adaptation of a famous Rudyard Kipling story, which explains how the elephant got its trunk.
The story is set in Africa, when the world was new and elephants did not have trunks.
The elephant’s child lived with Father, Mother and Baby Elephant. He wanted to know all about the
world, and was always asking the other animals difficult questions. They usually told him to go away!
One day, the elephant’s child asked a question that none of the animals wanted to answer. He asked
what Crocodile had for his dinner. The animals were afraid of Crocodile. Parrot told the elephant’s child
that he must go to the green, green river and ask Crocodile himself.
The elephant’s child set out on the long journey to the river. He took some melons to eat on the way.
He met Python on his journey, but when he asked him about Crocodile, Python was afraid, and
slithered away.
At last the elephant’s child came to the green, green river where Crocodile lived. When the elephant’s
child nervously asked Crocodile his question, Crocodile pretended not to hear clearly. He asked the
elephant’s child to come closer. Then he grabbed the elephant’s child’s nose with his teeth!
The elephant’s child squeaked loudly. Python, Parrot and Aunt Hippopotamus heard the noise and
came to help him. They pulled the elephant’s child in one direction, as Crocodile pulled in the other.
The elephant’s child’s nose stretched as they pulled. It grew longer and longer, until Crocodile gave up
and let go.
Aunt Hippopotamus helped the elephant’s child soothe his sore nose. It stopped hurting, but it was still
very long. The elephant’s child was unhappy with his new nose. He set off for home sadly.
On his journey home, the elephant’s child discovered that having a long nose was actually very useful –
he could flick flies away with it; pick grass with it; squirt mud with it; pick bananas with it; squirt water
with it and sing with it!
When the elephant’s child arrived home, Father, Mother and Baby Elephant thought his nose looked very
odd. So he showed them what he could do with it – he pulled Father’s tail, poked Mother and picked up
Baby Elephant and threw him into a thorn bush! He made lots of trouble with his new nose.
Eventually the family decided that something must be done. They went to see Crocodile. They promised
to pick bananas every day for him if he stretched their noses like he had the elephant’s child’s nose!
Crocodile agreed.
When the elephants got home, they all lived together peacefully. So now all elephants have long noses.
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why did the elephant child go close to the crocodile