18
‘’Scuse me,’
said
the Elephant’s Child
most politely, ‘but
my
father
has spanked me, my
mother
has spanked me, not
to mention my tall aunt,
the Ostrich
, and my tall uncle,
the
Giraffe
, who can kick ever so hard, as well as my broad aunt,
the Hippopotamus
,
and my hairy uncle,
the Baboon
, and including
the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
, with the
scalesome, flailsome tail, just up the bank, who spanks
harder than any of them; and so,
if it’s quite all the
same to you, I don’t want to be spanked
any more.’
