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00:17In the high and far off times, the elephant, oh, best beloved, had no trunk.
00:24He had only a blackish, bulgy nose as big as a boot,
00:29that he could wriggle about from side to side, but he couldn't pick things up with it.
00:35But there was one elephant, a new elephant, an elephant's child,
00:41who was full of insatiable curiosity.
00:46Excuse me.
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00:59As I say, he was full of insatiable curiosity,
01:04and that means he asked ever so many questions.
01:09He lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his insatiable curiosities, as you shall see.
01:20Excuse me, but why do your tail feathers grow just so?
01:26How dare you ask such a question, you little beast!
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01:35Excuse me.
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01:44But what makes your skin so spotty, anyway?
01:49He asked his broad aunt, the hippopotamus, why her eyes were so red.
01:58He asked his hairy uncle, the baboon, why melons tasted just so.
02:06And still he was full of insatiable curiosity.
02:10He asked questions about everything he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched,
02:16and all his uncles and his aunts spied him.
02:20And still he was full of insatiable curiosity.
02:26One fine morning by the old waterhole,
02:29this insatiable elephant's child asked a new, fine question that had never been asked before.
02:38What does the crocodile have for dinner?
02:42Huh?
02:46And they spanked him immediately and directly without stopping for a long time.
02:53Oh-ho! Oh-ho!
02:57When that was over, he came upon a colo-colo bird
03:01sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit dawn bush.
03:05My father has spanked me, my mother has spanked me,
03:09all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my insatiable curiosity,
03:13and I still want to know what the crocodile has for dinner.
03:17If you want to know that, go to the banks of the great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo River,
03:26all set about with fever trees.
03:30The grosso Limpipo?
03:32Limpopo! Limpopo! Limpopo!
03:39And so he went away.
03:42He went from Graham's town to Kimberley.
03:47From Kimberley to Calmer's country.
03:53And from Calmer's country, he went east by north.
04:00Till at last he came to the banks of the great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo River.
04:08Grey, green, greasy Limpopo River.
04:12All set about with fever trees, precisely as the colo-colo bird had said.
04:20The first thing that he found was a bicolored python rock snake.
04:25Excuse me, but have you seen such a thing as a crocodile in these promiscuous parts?
04:31Have I seen a crocodile? What will you ask me next?
04:36Excuse me, but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner?
04:40What he has for dinner?
04:42How would you like a spanking from my scalesome, flailsome tail?
04:47Ouch! This is odd, because my father and my mother and all my uncles and my aunts
04:53have all spanked me for my sensual curiosity.
04:56I suppose this is the same thing.
04:59I don't have to come all the way to that dopey, young, popey river to get spanked.
05:03I can get spanked at home.
05:05Now you must know and understand, oh best beloved,
05:10that till that very week and day and hour and minute,
05:14this insatiable elephant's child had never seen a crocodile
05:19and did not know what one was like.
05:22I won't get spanked anymore, stupid python.
05:26...
05:34Excuse me, but do you happen to have seen a crocodile in these promiscuous parts?
05:40Come hither, little one, for I am the crocodile.
05:45You are?
05:46Yes, and I have the tears to prove it.
05:51...
05:54You're the very person I've been looking for all these long days.
05:59Will you please tell me what you have dithered?
06:02Come closer, little one, and I'll whisper.
06:07I think today...
06:10I think today I shall begin with...
06:15Elephant's child!
06:17Raboo! Don't hurt him, please!
06:20So you see, the crocodile caught the elephant's child by his little nose,
06:24which up to that very week, day, hour and minute had been no bigger than a boot.
06:30Let go! Let go of me!
06:35My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly,
06:39pull as hard as ever you can,
06:41it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large padded leather jacket,
06:45and by that of course I mean that crocodile there,
06:47will jerk you into yonder limpet stream before you can say,
06:50Jack Robinson!
06:52This is the way we bicolored python rock snakes always took.
07:11This is too much for me!
07:14Rache and inexperienced traveler,
07:17we will now seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension,
07:21because if we do not, it is my impression that the armless self-propelling man of war
07:25with the armor-plated upper deck will permanently vitiate your future career.
07:29That's the way we bicolored python rock snakes always...
07:44...
07:46...
07:48...
07:50...
07:52...
07:54...
07:56...
07:58...
08:00...
08:02Thank you very much.
08:04Don't mention it.
08:10What are you doing that for?
08:12Excuse me, but my nose is badly out of shape,
08:15and I'm waiting for it to shrink.
08:18You'll have to wait for a long time.
08:20Some people don't know what is good for them.
08:26Bondage number one.
08:28You couldn't have done that with a mere smear nose.
08:32Yeah.
08:35That nice tall grass over there sure looks good.
08:40Bondage number two.
08:42You couldn't have done that with a mere smear nose.
08:45Yeah.
08:47My word.
08:48Don't you think the sun is very hot here?
08:51It is.
08:56Bondage number three.
08:58You couldn't have done that with a mere smear nose.
09:02Yeah.
09:03Now, how would you like to get spanked?
09:06Excuse me, but I should not like it at all.
09:08I see.
09:09Then how would you like to spank somebody?
09:14I should like that very much indeed.
09:17Well, perhaps you think of something.
09:22Thank you very much.
09:23You've been very kind.
09:25I better go home now to all my dear families
09:27and let them know I'm all right.
09:31So, the elephant's child went home across Africa.
09:35And when he felt lonely,
09:37he sang to himself down his trunk.
09:41And the noise was louder than several brass bands.
09:46Where is that elephant's child?
09:48It's been days since I've given a good spanking.
09:53What on earth are you doing?
09:55Come here at once and be spanked.
09:57Who?
09:58You peoples don't know nothing about spanking.
10:01But I do.
10:03And I'll show you.
10:23Limpopo.
10:24Limpopo to you.
10:28Bananas, where did you learn those tricks?
10:31And what have you been doing to your nose?
10:33I got a new one from the crocodile
10:35on the banks of the...
10:37the great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo River.
10:41I asked him what he had to do with it.
10:43And he said,
10:44I don't know.
10:45He said,
10:46I don't know.
10:47He said,
10:48I don't know.
10:49He said,
10:51I asked him what he had for dinner.
10:53And he gave me this to keep.
10:55It looks very ugly.
11:00But it's very useful.
11:04Well, things grew so exciting that his dear families went off
11:09one by one in a hurry to borrow new noses from the crocodile.
11:14When they came back,
11:16nobody spanked anybody anymore.
11:20And ever since that day, oh best beloved, all the elephants you'll ever see, besides all those that you won't, have trunks precisely like the trunks of the insatiable elephant's child.