“Excuse me, but have you seen a crocodile around here?”
“What will you ask next?” asked the snake.
“Excuse me, but what does he have for dinner?” asked the elephant. The snake was angry and he shook his coils and thrust out his tongue at the elephant.
“Good-bye, snake,” he said and left. He came across something he thought was a log in the water, but it was a crocodile.
“Excuse me,” he said, “but have you seen a crocodile around here? What does he have for dinner?”
“Come here,” said the crocodile, “I will whisper it to you.”
The crocodile said to himself: “I will eat the little elephant to-day.”
He caught the elephant by the nose and began to pull hard.
“Let go!” said the elephant. “That hurts.”
The snake came from the rocks and said: “He will pull you into the water if you don’t pull hard.” He pulled hard and the crocodile pulled hard. The elephant’s nose began to stretch and stretched nearly five feet. “This is too much for me,” he said.