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opinion that your acquaintance
in the large-pattern leather
ulster’
(and by this he meant the
Crocodile) ‘will jerk you into yonder
limpid stream before you can say
Jack Robinson.’
This is the way Bi-Coloured-
Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.
Then
the Elephant’s Child
sat back on his little haunches,
and
pulled, and pulled, and pulled, and
his nose began to stretch.
Then
the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
scuffled
down from the bank and said,
‘My young friend, if you do not now,
immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my
