Page 16 - Storytime (March 2019)

Without thinking, the elephant used When he was hungry, he used his

his trunk to pluck a bundle of fresh trunk to pull fruit from the trees. When

green grass and pop it in his mouth. flies landed on him, he used his trunk

to swat them away. When he felt hot,
“Advantage number two!” cried the
he used his trunk to make a cooling
python. “You couldn’t have done that
mud cap. And when he felt lonely, he
with your small, bulgy nose! Now,
used his trunk to sing to himself.
don’t you think it’s too hot here?”

At last, he reached his family
“It is,” agreed the elephant, and he
and they cried, “Little elephant,
schlooped up some mud with his trunk
what’s happened to your nose?”
and slapped it on his head to make

a cooling mud cap. “I got it from a crocodile on the

banks of the Limpopo River,” he said
“Advantage number three!” cried the
proudly, and he showed them the
python. “You couldn’t have done that
amazing things he could do with it.
with your small, bulgy nose! So, what

will you do if you meet a crocodile?” The elephant herd was so impressed

that, one by one, they set off for the
“I’ll spank them with my new trunk!”
great, green Limpopo River so they
said the elephant. “Thank you for your
could get new noses too. And that is
help. I think it’s time I went home.”
how the elephant got its trunk – all

So the elephant plodded all the way thanks to the elephant child’s courage

across Africa, waving his new trunk and insatiable curiosity!

at every animal he met.

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