O Bananas! said they ( ! ), Where did you learn that trick ( ; trick , , ), and what have you done to your nose ( )?
I got a new one from the Crocodile ( = ) on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River ( - ), said the Elephants Child ( ). I asked him what he had for dinner ( , ), and he gave me this to keep ( / /).
It looks very ugly ( ), said his hairy uncle, the Baboon ( ).
It does, said the Elephants Child (, ). But its very useful ( ), and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon ( ), by one hairy leg ( ), and hove him into a hornets nest ( ; to heave ; hornet , ).
ugly ['AglI], useful ['jHsful], hornet ['hLnIt]
O Bananas! said they, Where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?
I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, said the Elephants Child. I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep.
It looks very ugly, said his hairy uncle, the Baboon.
It does, said the Elephants Child. But its very useful, and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornets nest.
Then that bad Elephants Child spanked all his dear families for a long time ( ), till they were very warm and greatly astonished ( // // ). He pulled out his tall Ostrich aunts tail-feathers ( ); and he caught his tall uncle, the Giraffe ( ; to catch , ), by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush ( ; thorn-bush , ; thorn , ; ); and he shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus ( ), and blew bubbles into her ear ( // ; to blow ) when she was sleeping in the water after meals ( ); but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird ( // ).
feather ['feDq], Hippopotamus ["hIpq'pOtqmqs], touch [tAC]
Then that bad Elephants Child spanked all his dear families for a long time, till they were very warm and greatly astonished. He pulled out his tall Ostrich aunts tail-feathers; and he caught his tall uncle, the Giraffe, by the hind-leg, and dragged him through a thorn-bush; and he shouted at his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, and blew bubbles into her ear when she was sleeping in the water after meals; but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird.
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At last things grew so exciting ( ) that his dear families ( ) went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River ( - ), all set about with fever-trees ( ), to borrow new noses from the Crocodile ( ). When they came back ( ) nobody spanked anybody any more ( // ); and ever since that day, O Best Beloved ( , ), all the Elephants you will ever see ( , ), besides all those that you wont ( , ), have trunks precisely like the trunk of the satiable Elephants Child ( , ).
hurry ['hArI], borrow ['bOrqu], precisely [prI'saIslI]
At last things grew so exciting that his dear families went off one by one in a hurry to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to borrow new noses from the Crocodile. When they came back nobody spanked anybody any more; and ever since that day, O Best Beloved, all the Elephants you will ever see, besides all those that you wont, have trunks precisely like the trunk of the satiable Elephants Child.
I KEEP six honest serving-men ( );
(They taught me all I knew ( , ; to teach , ))
Their names are What and Why and When ( , , )
And How and Where and Who ( , , ).
I send them over land and sea ( / ),
I send them east and west ( );
But after they have worked for me ( , ),
I give them all a rest ( ).
honest ['OnIst], taught [tLt], east [Jst]
I KEEP six honest serving-men;
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
I let them rest from nine till five ( ),
For I am busy then ( ),
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea ( / / , ),
For they are hungry men ( //):
But different folk have different views ( ):
I know a person small ( )
She keeps ten million serving-men ( ),
Who get no rest at all ( : )!
folk [fquk], view [vjH], million ['mIljqn]
I let them rest from nine till five,
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men:
But different folk have different views:
I know a person small
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
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She sends em abroad on her own affairs ( ),
From the second she opens her eyes ( , // // )
One million Hows, two million Wheres ( , ),
And seven million Whys ( )!
abroad [q'brLd], own [qun], affair [q'fFq]
She sends em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!
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THIS is the Elephants Child having his nose pulled by the Crocodile ( , ). He is much surprised and astonished and hurt ( , ), and he is talking through his nose and saying ( ), Led go ()! You are hurtig be ( )! He is pulling very hard ( ), and so is the Crocodile ( ); but the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake is hurrying through the water ( ---) to help the Elephants Child ( ). All that black stuff is the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River ( - ; stuff , ; , ) (but I am not allowed to paint these pictures ( )), and the bottly-tree with the twisty roots and the eight leaves is one of the fever trees that grow there ( , ; fever ).
astonish [qs'tOnIS], allow [q'lau], eight [eIt]
THIS is the Elephants Child having his nose pulled by the Crocodile. He is much surprised and astonished and hurt, and he is talking through his nose and saying, Led go! You are hurtig be! He is pulling very hard, and so is the Crocodile; but the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake is hurrying through the water to help the Elephants Child. All that black stuff is the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (but I am not allowed to paint these pictures), and the bottly-tree with the twisty roots and the eight leaves is one of the fever trees that grow there.
Underneath the truly picture are shadows of African animals walking into an African ark ( : , , ). There are two lions (// ), two ostriches, two oxen, two camels ( , , ), two sheep, and two other things that look like rats ( [68], ), but I think they are rock-rabbits ( , ; rock-rabbit , /Ochotona/). They dont mean anything ( ). I put them in because I thought they looked pretty ( , , ). They would look very fine if I were allowed to paint them ( , ).
shadow ['Sxdqu], lion ['laIqn], pretty ['prItI]
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Underneath the truly picture are shadows of African animals walking into an African ark. There are two lions, two ostriches, two oxen, two camels, two sheep, and two other things that look like rats, but I think they are rock-rabbits. They dont mean anything. I put them in because I thought they looked pretty. They would look very fine if I were allowed to paint them.
THIS is just a picture of the Elephants Child ( ) going to pull bananas off a banana-tree ( ) after he had got his fine new long trunk ( , ). I dont think it is a very nice picture ( , ); but I couldnt make it any better ( / -/ ), because elephants and bananas are hard to draw ( ). The streaky things behind the Elephants Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa ( - ; quaggy , , ). The Elephants Child made most of his mud-caps out of the mud that he found there ( , ). I think it would look better ( , = ) if you painted the banana-tree green and the Elephants Child red ( //, //).
draw [drL], country ['kAntrI], streaky ['strJkI]
THIS is just a picture of the Elephants Child going to pull bananas off a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long trunk. I dont think it is a very nice picture; but I couldnt make it any better, because elephants and bananas are hard to draw. The streaky things behind the Elephants Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa. The Elephants Child made most of his mud-caps out of the mud that he found there. I think it would look better if you painted the banana-tree green and the Elephants Child red.
