If I had to choose which animal to be I'd be am Elephant all big and wrinkly. Towering above everything in its path, I'd trample along with such aftermath. That great wrinkly body with trunk so long and such a pair of tusks that are oh so strong. I look so enviously at your great big trunk, thinking of its many uses, my poor heart sunk. You pick up those trees so effortlessly, stacking them up like toothpicks so majestically. Then you turn and use it to wash your enormous back, slurping up the bucketful in two seconds, without any flack.
My nose is so long but hasn't many uses, mainly I use it to poke into other peoples business. I can sniff and sneeze and it gets very sore but you use yours to search and explore. Your eyes tell no secrets, they give nothing away, no sneaky, sly, devious or cunning as mine sometimes say. I find it takes very little to make me smile, but you refrain and hold yours back all the while. At the Circus I've seen Elephants do tricks and even dance! With two left feet at my disposal I don't stand a chance.
Although I look at your young with great affection, your gestation period to me would be an affliction. I would definitely bypass the joys of a family, nine months was eight months too long for me. I would love to be like you so fearsome in the wild, why even the Lions and Tigers are as mild as child. One of my fears would most definitely be, to have magnificent Tusks that are a great envy. But the heartless hunters who prize them so dearly, kill you to get their hands on them eagerly. I think I would pray that my tusks didn't grow, then they'd be no use to these unscrupulous foe.
I must say your tail is a bit of a surprise, such a skinny thing brings tears to my eyes. Your tusks and trunk commanding such fear, then a little scrawny tail bringing up the rear. Is it true what they say about you and the Mouse? Mind you I'm petrified if I get one in my house. but with great big feet like the ones you're blessed with, I'd stand on it and blow away the myth. I f people remarked that you were a bully, you should quip, you were only extending the hand of friendship!
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