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Storyteller’s Corner

How the Elephant

Got Its Trunk

Adapted from Rudyard Kipling

n far-off times, the elephant had no trunk. It had a bulgy nose,

Iabout as big as a boot, that it could wriggle from side to side,

but it couldn’t pick things up with it.

There was one elephant, an elephant child, who was insatiably curious about

the world and always asking questions. He asked the ostrich why her feathers

grew so fluffy, he asked the giraffe why his neck was long, and he asked his

parents why his nose was so bulgy, but nobody could answer his questions.

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