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ONCE upon a time (), on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea ( ), there lived a Parsee ( ) from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour ( -- ). And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea ( ) with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind ( = // , // , ) that you must particularly never touch ( ). And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things ( , , , , , ), and made himself one cake ( ) which was two feet across and three feet thick ( [21] ). It was indeed a Superior Comestible ( (thats magic ( = )), and he put it on the stove ( ) because he was allowed to cook on that stove ( ), and he baked it( ) and he baked it ( ) till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental ( ; to smell ). But just as he was going to eat it ( ) there came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros ( = ; to come down ) with a horn on his nose ( // ), two piggy eyes ( ), and few manners ( // = ).
island ['aIlqnd], whose [hHz], allow [q'lau]
ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch. And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick. It was indeed a Superior Comestible (thats magic), and he put it on the stove because he was allowed to cook on that stove, and he baked it and he baked it till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental. But just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners.
In those days the Rhinoceross skin fitted him quite tight ( ). There were no wrinkles in it anywhere ( ). He looked exactly like a Noahs Ark Rhinoceros ( ), but of course much bigger ( // ). All the same ( ), he had no manners then ( ), and he has no manners now ( ), and he never will have any manners ( ). He said, How ( : / )! and the Parsee left that cake ( ) and climbed to the top of a palm tree ( ) with nothing on but his hat ( // ), from which the rays of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental splendour ( -- ). And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose ( [22] // ), and the cake rolled on the sand ( ), and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose ( ), and he ate it ( ), and he went away ( // ), waving his tail ( // ), to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior ( //) which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and the Promontories of the Larger Equinox ( , ). Then the Parsee came down from his palm-tree ( ) and put the stove on its legs ( // ) and recited the following Sloka ( ), which, as you have not heard (, // ), I will now proceed to relate ( ):
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Rhinoceros [raI'nOsqrqs], tight [taIt], abut [q'bAt]
In those days the Rhinoceross skin fitted him quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anywhere. He looked exactly like a Noahs Ark Rhinoceros, but of course much bigger. All the same, he had no manners then, and he has no manners now, and he never will have any manners. He said, How! and the Parsee left that cake and climbed to the top of a palm tree with nothing on but his hat, from which the rays of the sun were always reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and the Promontories of the Larger Equinox. Then the Parsee came down from his palm-tree and put the stove on its legs and recited the following Sloka, which, as you have not heard, I will now proceed to relate:
Them that takes cakes (, )
Which the Parsee-man bakes ( )
Makes dreadful mistakes ( ).
And there was a great deal more in that than you would think ( //, ).
dreadful ['dredful], deal [dJl], would [wud]
Them that takes cakes
Which the Parsee-man bakes
Makes dreadful mistakes.
