Rc – Kipling – Just So Stories – The Elephant’s Child – How the Elephant got his Trunk

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In the High

and Far-Off Times

the Elephant,

O Best Beloved,

had no trunk.

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. 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.

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