And why did I have to be a hippo? Why not a hawk, a hare, a magnificent horse?
. So the hippo promised that, at night, he would emerge from the water “every time that food passes through my body, and I will scatter my dung on the earth with my tail”.As it happened, we went on holiday to a lodge on the South African side of the Limpopo River whose lawns were mowed by hippos: they emerged at night, large black shapes with small, knuckley hooves.
We heard the sound: the tug and tear of grass being pulled from the ground by megaherbivore lips. A metre away: a huge pendulum head moving a centimetre sideways, then its feet stepped to join it. I grabbed my friend’s arm, frozen, and imagined my tombstone: Here lies H: “for hippo”. Ha Ha Ha. But my friend – S, for saviour – pulled my arm gently and we kept walking, holding small, knuckley hands, staring straight ahead, then let go and ran all the way home.
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