Elephant Jaboo and Suzy
Shrew.
Elephant Jaboo and little Suzy Shrew
were the best of friends and it was the fervent
wish of both of them that their companionship would
never end.
Watching little
Suzy climb up Jaboo's elongated snout to sit upon
his head Oswald Owl had his doubts and winced to
see young Suzy scamper inbetween great Jaboo's feet
which, although they were quite graceful (for a
full grown elephant) and always well manicured and
neat, were, nevertheless, each six times wee Suzy's
size and oft times did wise Oswald sigh and shake
his round-eyed head to see the friends play 'Tag'
or 'Chase' or 'Last man across the river today is
dead!'
So perturbed
was Oswald infact he commissioned the master-gnome
of Zhish to have his workers construct a whistle
whereby Suzy might make known her movements - an
elegant thing of jade and sun-dried liana with such
a beautiful sound that even monkeys grew still in
contemplation of its tone, quite forgetting to
jabber and murmur.
But alas, some
forms of beauty quite excell their duty and Sydney
Snake nursed a passionate
desire to
possess that whistle til it expunged all sense from
his brain and one day, he just couldn't help
himself, he devoured Suzy Shrew, whistle and all
then lay in a coma (he had a Diploma) for almost a
week, digesting his excessive zeal and thinking how
best to disguise
all evidence of
his nefarious meal.
But it was no good - as soon as he
spoke the whistle exploded and blew through the
vile serpent's throat. Jaboo at once woke from his
own grief and mope and guessing then at poor Suzy's
fate he stamped on the snake til Sydney resembled a
glittering, wafer-thin plate.
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