The Curious Elephant
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A long time ago, when elephants did not have trunks, there lived in a family of
elephants, a curious little elephant. In those days the elephants had a black nose.
and bulky. The curious little elephant always asked questions to his relatives. But his
relatives, the furry baboon, the long-legged ostrich, the spotted skin giraffe, the
fat hippo guy and the others only kicked him in response. A
beautiful morning, the little elephant woke up with a terrible urge to ask.
I had found a lovely question: - What does the crocodile eat at noon? Everything.
the world shouted and got scared, and the little elephant was kicked many times for being too curious.
When they finished kicking, the little elephant approached the kolokolo bird, which
I was sitting on a branch, and it said to him: - All my relatives kick me for
Question, but I want to know what the crocodile eats at noon. And the bird.
Kolokolo gave a shout and replied: - Go to the shore of the great green, gray, and dirty river; there
you will know the answer. The next morning, the little questioning elephant prepared the
food for many days, and he said to his relatives: - Goodbye, I am going to the great gray river, to
green and dirty river. He walked for many days. Finally, he arrived at the banks of the great river,
just as the kolokolo bird had told him. And he believed there was a large trunk and it was
the crocodile. The crocodile winked at him with one eye.- Have you seen a crocodile by
these places? The crocodile winked the other eye and said: - Come here small,
Because I am the crocodile.- You are the one I have been looking for for so long.
Do you want to tell me what you eat at noon? - Come closer, little one, and I will tell you.
ear. The little elephant brought its head close to the crocodile's mouth and the crocodile grabbed it.
through the nose.- It seems to me, said the crocodile, that today I will eat little elephant. And the little elephant,
very scared, he said: - Let me go, it hurts me! The little elephant sat down and leaned his
He sat down on the shore and pulled, pulled and pulled. And his nose began to grow. The crocodile from the
water, kept throwing, throwing and throwing, and the little elephant's nose stretched much longer. The
little elephant felt that his little feet were slipping away, and he said while speaking through his nose, that already
It measured about two meters: - It hurts a lot! A snake that was slithering through
there, upon hearing the little elephant, it curled up around its legs and began to pull very, very hard. The
the little elephant was pulling and the crocodile was pulling ... But the little elephant and the
the snake pulled harder, and in the end, the crocodile let go of the nose and hit itself so
strong in the water that was heard throughout the river. The little elephant stayed seated. He looked at his
nose and put it in the river to refresh it. It had become an authentic
trumpet. He discovered that with the trumpet he could do things he had never
suspected. After a few days he returned home, shaking and lifting the
trumpet; could pick fruit from the trees, pick grass from the ground, scare off the
flies, refreshing oneself by showering with water and mud, and singing when feeling lonely.
On a dark night he arrived where his relatives were, raised his trunk and said: -
How are you? Everyone was very happy to see him, and immediately, they said: - Come here
we'll kick you for being nosy! - Bah!, he said, it seems to me that you don't know
hit. Look at me! He rolled out the trunk and started hitting the relatives.
Oh! Oh! Where did you learn that? What happened to your nose? Said the little elephant:-
When I asked the crocodile what he ate at noon, he gave me this new nose.
and long. - Well, it's a very ugly nose, replied her relatives. - It may be very ugly, but
It's very useful, replied the little elephant while continuing to hit his relatives.
After a few days, his family could no longer withstand it, and all the elephants
they went to the shore of the gray, green, and dirty river, so that the crocodile would gift them noses
long. Since then, all elephants have a trunk like that of the little elephant.
big question.
