Excellent! said Slow-and-Solid (! --).A little more attention to holding your breath ( ) and you will be able to keep house at the bottom of the turbid Amazon ( ; to keep house : // ). Now Ill try that exercise of wrapping my hind legs round my ears ( ) which you say is so peculiarly comfortable (, , ). Wont Painted Jaguar be surprised (- )!
Excellent! said Stickly-Prickly (! -). But its straining your back-plates a little ( ). They are all overlapping now ( ; to overlap (); (); ()), instead of lying side by side ( , / ; side by side , ).
attention [q'tenS(q)n], breath [breT], peculiarly [pI'kjHljqlI]
Excellent! said Slow-and-Solid. A little more attention to holding your breath and you will be able to keep house at the bottom of the turbid Amazon. Now Ill try that exercise of wrapping my hind legs round my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable. Wont Painted Jaguar be surprised!
Excellent! said Stickly-Prickly. But its straining your back-plates a little. They are all overlapping now, instead of lying side by side.
Oh, thats the result of exercise (, ), said Slow-and-Solid ( --). Ive noticed that your prickles seem to be melting into one another ( , , , ; to melt into / /, ; to melt , ), and that youre growing to look rather more like a pine-cone ( ), and less like a chestnut-burr ( ), than you used to ( / / ).
Am I? said Stickly-Prickly (? -). That comes from my soaking in the water ( - = - , ). Oh, wont Painted Jaguar be surprised (, - )!
result [rI'zAlt], exercise ['eksqsaIz], soak [squk]
Oh, thats the result of exercise, said Slow-and-Solid. Ive noticed that your prickles seem to be melting into one another, and that youre growing to look rather more like a pine-cone, and less like a chestnut-burr, than you used to.
Am I? said Stickly-Prickly. That comes from my soaking in the water. Oh, wont Painted Jaguar be surprised!
They went on with their exercises ( ), each helping the other ( ), till morning came ( ); and when the sun was high ( ) they rested and dried themselves ( ). Then they saw ( ) that they were both of them quite different from what they had been ( , //).
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Stickly-Prickly (-), said Tortoise after breakfast ( ), I am not what I was yesterday ( , [86]); but I think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar ( , - ).
high [haI], both [bquT], amuse [q'mjHz]
They went on with their exercises, each helping the other, till morning came; and when the sun was high they rested and dried themselves. Then they saw that they were both of them quite different from what they had been.
Stickly-Prickly, said Tortoise after breakfast, I am not what I was yesterday; but I think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar.
That was the very thing I was thinking just now ( ), said Stickly-Prickly ( -). I think scales are a tremendous improvement on prickles ( , ) to say nothing of being able to swim ( ). Oh, wont Painted Jaguar be surprised (, - )! Lets go and find him ( // ).
By and by they found Painted Jaguar ( ; by and by ), still nursing his paddy-paw ( -) that had been hurt the night before ( ). He was so astonished ( ) that he fell three times backward over his own painted tail without stopping ( ).
tremendous [trI'mendqs], improvement [Im'prHvmqnt], without [wI'Daut]
That was the very thing I was thinking just now, said Stickly-Prickly. I think scales are a tremendous improvement on prickles to say nothing of being able to swim. Oh, wont Painted Jaguar be surprised! Lets go and find him.
By and by they found Painted Jaguar, still nursing his paddy-paw that had been hurt the night before. He was so astonished that he fell three times backward over his own painted tail without stopping.
Good morning ( )! said Stickly-Prickly ( -).
And how is your dear gracious Mummy this morning ( = )?
She is quite well, thank you (, ), said Painted Jaguar ( ); but you must forgive me ( ) if I do not at this precise moment recall your name ( ).
Thats unkind of you ( ), said Stickly-Prickly ( -), seeing that this time yesterday ( , ) you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw ( ).
gracious ['greISqs], forgive [fq'gIv], precise [prI'saIz]
Good morning! said Stickly-Prickly.
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And how is your dear gracious Mummy this morning?
She is quite well, thank you, said Painted Jaguar; but you must forgive me if I do not at this precise moment recall your name.
Thats unkind of you, said Stickly-Prickly, seeing that this time yesterday you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.
But you hadnt any shell ( ). It was all prickles ( ), said Painted Jaguar ( ). I know it was ( , ). Just look at my paw ( )!
You told me to drop into the turbid Amazon and be drowned ( ), said Slow-Solid ( -). Why are you so rude and forgetful to-day ( )?
Dont you remember what your mother told you ( , )? said Stickly-Prickly ( -),
Cant curl, but can swim ( , )
Stickly-Prickly, thats him (-, )!
Curls up, but cant swim (, )
Slow-Solid, thats him (-, )!
drown [draun], rude [rHd], forgetful [fq'getful]
But you hadnt any shell. It was all prickles, said Painted Jaguar. I know it was. Just look at my paw!
You told me to drop into the turbid Amazon and be drowned, said Slow-Solid. Why are you so rude and forgetful to-day?
Dont you remember what your mother told you? said Stickly-Prickly,
Cant curl, but can swim
Stickly-Prickly, thats him!
Curls up, but cant swim
Slow-Solid, thats him!
Then they both curled themselves up and rolled round and round Painted Jaguar ( ) till his eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head ( = -; to turn cart-wheels ; cart-wheel ).
Then he went to fetch his mother ( ).
Mother, he said (, ), there are two new animals in the woods to-day ( = ), and the one that you said couldnt swim ( , , ), swims (), and the one that you said couldnt curl up ( , , ), curls (); and theyve gone shares in their prickles, I think (, , ), because both of them are scaly all over ( ), instead of one being smooth and the other very prickly ( , , ); and, besides that ( ), they are rolling round and round in circles ( ), and I dont feel comfy ( ).
head [hed], share [SFq], smooth [smHD]
