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Then
the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake
came down
from the bank, and knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch round the
Elephant’s Child’s hind legs, and said,
‘Rash and inexperienced traveller,
we will now seriously devote ourselves
to a little high tension, because if we do
not, it is my impression that yonder self-
propelling man-of-war with the armour-
plated upper deck’
(and by this, O Best
Beloved, he meant the Crocodile), ‘will
permanently vitiate your future career.
That is the way all
Bi-Coloured-Python-
Rock-Snakes
always talk.
So he pulled, and
the Elephant’s
Child
pulled, and
the Crocodile
pulled;
