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beautiful ['bjHtIful], rude [rHd], dreadfully ['dredfulI]

THIS is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at five in the afternoon, when he had got his beautiful hind legs just as Big God Nqong had promised. You can see that it is five o’clock, because Big God Nqong’s pet tame clock says so. That is Nqong, in his bath, sticking his feet out. Old Man Kangaroo is being rude to Yellow-Dog Dingo. Yellow-Dog Dingo has been trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia. You can see the marks of Kangaroo’s big new feet running ever so far back over the bare hills. Yellow-Dog Dingo is drawn black, because I am not allowed to paint these pictures with real colours out of the paint-box; and besides, Yellow-Dog Dingo got dreadfully black and dusty after running through the Flinders and the Cinders.

I don’t know the names of the flowers growing round Nqong’s bath (я не знаю названия цветов, растущих вокруг ванны Нквонга). The two little squatty things out in the desert are the other two gods (два маленьких низких и толстых существа в пустыне — два остальных божества) that Old Man Kangaroo spoke to early in the morning (с которыми Старина Кенгуру разговаривал рано утром). That thing with the letters on it is Old Man Kangaroo’s pouch (та штуковина с буквами на ней — сумка Старины Кенгуру). He had to have a pouch just as he had to have legs (ему пришлось приобрести сумку точно также, как ему пришлось приобрести /такие/ ноги).

round [raund], squatty ['skwOtI], pouch [pauC]

I don’t know the names of the flowers growing round Nqong’s bath. The two little squatty things out in the desert are the other two gods that Old Man Kangaroo spoke to early in the morning. That thing with the letters on it is Old Man Kangaroo’s pouch. He had to have a pouch just as he had to have legs.

THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS

Как появились Броненосцы

THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times (это, О Самые Любименькие, еще одна история о Высоких и Далеких Временах = о Давным-давно Прошедших Временах ). In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog (в самый разгар тех времен жил да был Еж Колючки-Торчком; to stick — торчать; prickly — колючий ), and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon (и он жил на берегах мутной Амазонки), eating shelly snails and things (питаясь улитками с раковинами и тому подобным).

And he had a friend (и у него была подруга), a Slow-Solid Tortoise (Медленная-Твердая Черепаха; tortoise — черепаха /сухопутная/ ), who lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon (которая жила на берегах мутной Амазонки), eating green lettuces and things (питаясь зеленым салатом-латуком и тому подобным). And so that was all right, Best Beloved (и так это = все было нормально, Очень Любименькие). Do you see (понятно)?

hedgehog ['heGhOg], turbid ['tWbId], tortoise ['tLtqs]

THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times. In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating shelly snails and things.

And he had a friend, a Slow-Solid Tortoise, who lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating green lettuces and things. And so that was all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?

But also, and at the same time (но также и в то же самое время), in those High and Far-Off Times (в те Давние-Предавние Времена), there was a Painted Jaguar (жил да был Пестрый Ягуар), and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon too (и он тоже жил на берегах мутной Амазонки); and he ate everything that he could catch (и он ел все, что /он/ мог поймать). When he could not catch deer or monkeys (когда он не мог поймать оленей или обезьян) he would eat frogs and beetles (он ловил лягушек и жуков); and when he could not catch frogs and beetles (а когда он не мог поймать лягушек и жуков) he went to his Mother Jaguar (он шел к своей Матери Ягуарихе), and she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises (и она рассказывала ему, как есть ежей и черепах).

jaguar ['Gxgjuq], deer [dIq], beetle [bJtl]

But also, and at the same time, in those High and Far-Off Times, there was a Painted Jaguar, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon too; and he ate everything that he could catch. When he could not catch deer or monkeys he would eat frogs and beetles; and when he could not catch frogs and beetles he went to his Mother Jaguar, and she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises.

She said to him ever so many times (она говорила ему очень много раз), graciously waving her tail (грациозно/снисходительно помахивая /своим/ хвостом), ‘My son, when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil (мой сын = сынок , когда ты найдешь Ежа, ты должен бросить его в воду, и тогда он развернется), and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw (а когда ты поймаешь Черепаху, ты должен выскрести ее из панциря /своей/ лапой).’ And so that was all right, Best Beloved (и так все было хорошо/правильно, Самые Любименькие).

graciously ['greISqslI], scoop [skHp], paw [pL]

She said to him ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, ‘My son, when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw.’ And so that was all right, Best Beloved.

One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon (одной прекрасной ночью на берегах мутной Амазонки), Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree (Пестрый Ягуар нашел Ежа Колючки-Торчком и Медленную-Твердую Черепаху, которые сидели под стволом поваленного дерева). They could not run away (они не могли убежать), and so Stickly-Prickly curled himself up into a ball (и поэтому Колючки-Торчком свернулся в шар), because he was a Hedgehog (потому что он был Еж), and Slow-Solid Tortoise drew in his head and feet into his shell as far as they would go (а Медленная-Твердая Черепаха втянула свою голову и лапы в свой панцирь, как можно глубже), because he was a Tortoise (потому что она была Черепаха); and so that was all right, Best Beloved (и так все было правильно, Самые Любименькие). Do you see (понятно)?