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In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best
Beloved, had no trunk.
He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot,
that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he
couldn’t pick up things with it.
But there was one Elephant – a new Elephant – an
Elephant’s Child
–
who was full of ‘satiable curtiosity,
and that means he asked ever so many questions.
