Chunky, the Happy Hippo by Richard Barnum 3 Chunky is Bitten Kids Free Audiobooks.
chapter 3 of chunky the happy hippo this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for further information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org chunky the happy hippo by richard barnum chapter three chunky is bitten hold on there wait a minute don't be afraid wait for me little hippo chap cried the big animal chunky oh no you'll bite me answered chunky as he crashed his way through the jungle bite you i wouldn't bite you for the world i never bite anything except the grass and the leaves i chew for my dinner i might tickle you with my trunk if i wanted to have some fun but i'd never bite and the big animal talked in such a kind way that chunky no longer felt frightened he stopped and looked back what do you mean tickle me with your trunk he asked speaking animal talk of course do you mean with one of your two tails i haven't two tails answered the big animal the little one is a tail to be sure but the other is my trunk or nose see i can wiggle it any way i like to and this he did my that's wonderful cried chunky i can wiggle my tail even if it is shorter than yours and i can open my mouth real wide but i can't make my nose go as yours does and so you call it a trunk what do you do with it it is like a hand to me said the big animal i pick up in it things to eat and i pull off the leaves of trees grow above my head on the high branches what is your name little hippo boy my name's chunky and what is yours i'm called tomtom the jolly elephant and i'm in a book said the big animal now don't ask me what a book is for i don't know all i know is i'm in one and the book is about a lot of my adventures what's adventurous ask chunky things that happened to you said tum-tum the jolly elephant if i had tickled you with my trunk that would have been an adventure and if the crocodile had bitten me when i was out playing water tag a while ago would that have been an adventure ask chunky it would said tumtum but that's all i know about a book i'm in one and there's a picture of me i had a lot of adventures in the jungle and then i was caught and taken away far off and put into a circus there i had lots of fun why aren't you in the circus now ask chunky well i'm getting too old to do circus tricks anymore though i feel as jolly as ever answered tom tom so the man who owned me said he'd take me out of the circus and bring me back to the jungle to help train any wild elephants he might catch that's why i'm back in the jungle i'm going to help tame and train wild elephants which the hunters who are with the man who owns me are going to try to catch huh so there are hunters are there cried chunky for he had heard his father and mother speak of these creatures and they had told him always to keep out of their way yes there are some hunters in the jungle said tum-tum they are after the elephants do you think they'll want a hippo ask chunky anxiously well i can't tell maybe they might would you like to be caught and put in a circus indeed i would not cried junkie i want to stay in the jungle and swim in the muddy river with my brother bumpy and my sister moppy we have lots of fun we had fun in the circus too said tumtum the jolly elephant there i met mappo the merry monkey and i know lots of other animals about whom those things that are called books have been written oh tell me about the other animals veg chunky was there one like me yes there was a hippo in the circus said tumtum but he was old and big and slept in his tank of water most of the time i didn't have much to say to him but i like you then there were other animals in the circus and out of a two for that matter and i liked most of them i met squinty a comical pig and there was don a runaway dog besides floppier a funny rabbit they all have books written about them and you'd be surprised at the many adventures my friends had i was surprised just now when the...