Page 15 - Storytime (March 2019)
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With each tug and pull, the elephant’s “Some animals just don’t know what’s
nose grew longer. Oh, how it hurt! But good for them,” said the python.
the little elephant didn’t give up. He
hurled himself backwards and pulled
as hard as he could until, at last, the The elephant sat by the Limpopo
crocodile lost his grip and was forced River for three days, but his nose
to swim away. didn’t get any shorter – it just got
wrinklier. At the end of the third day,
The elephant’s nose – which was now
a mosquito landed on his shoulder
a long trunk – splashed so loudly into
and stung him. Before he knew what
the water, you could hear it all the way
he was doing, the elephant lifted his
across the Limpopo River! But the cool
trunk and swatted the mosquito.
water felt so soothing on his sore nose,
the elephant stayed there. “Advantage number one!” cried the
python, who had been watching the
“What are you doing that for?” asked
elephant. “You couldn’t have done
the python.
that with your small, bulgy nose!
“Perhaps my nose will shrink to its Now try to eat something.”
normal size again,” said the elephant.
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