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When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree,
instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do.
When he wanted
grass he plucked grass up from
the ground, instead of going
on his knees as he used to do.
When the flies bit him he broke
off the branch of a tree and used
it as fly-whisk; and he made himself
a new, cool, slushy-squshy mud-cap
whenever the sun was hot. When he felt
lonely walking through
Africa
he sang to himself
down his trunk, and the noise was louder than
several brass bands.
