The Great Grey-Green, Greasy Limpopo River - #OurHeritage

One of them, very obviously, comes with The Elephant Child, one of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories (1902) written for children, which gave us the catchy alliteration which is known worldwide but which is yet to be scooped up and exploited here.  So I provide a concertinaed sample.

‘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.  Where he asked can I see a crocodile?